Wyndham Press
Wyndham Press is a publisher of SNMP
technical references and other network-related specialty topics
Our first
offering is the SNMP MIB Handbook —
The Essential Guide to MIB Development, Use and
Diagnosis
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Wyndham Press |
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Wyndham Press is a publisher of SNMP
technical references and other network-related specialty topics
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Available for Ordering! ISBN Number 978-0-9814922-0-9 |
Target Audiences SNMP Developers—MIB authors, agent software developers, those involved with SNMP standardization efforts, developers of management software suites, engineers writing plug-ins for manager tools or applets for support of SNMP-capable products, developers of agent SDKs, MIB compilers, MIB browsers. Network Engineers are end-user consumers for SNMP. This includes folks from a wide range of professional disciplines—personnel from IT-departments whose job it is to keep servers, routers, switches, and workstations running and secure. It also includes microwave engineers maintaining cellular telephone networks, utility company engineers monitoring electrical power distribution, television broadcast engineers, military personnel managing surveillance platforms, and many other job titles including that of Network Engineer. Selected Excerpts (PDF files) Chapter 3—Getting the Most Out of SNMP Example MIBs (text files) |
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SNMP MIB Handbook — Essential Guide to MIB Development, Use, and Diagnosis (408 pages)
The Simple Network Management Protocol allows Managers (software) to communicate with Agents (also software) on network-managed devices—to collect status information, to effect configuration and control, and to receive unsolicited alarms (called traps).
A MIB (Management Information Base) is a text file containing strict syntax defining data objects to be managed and traps to be sent. MIB objects and their values are the topics of conversation between managers and agents, and are the focal point of the protocol.
The simplicity of SNMP is the reason for its initial and continued success — simple MIB objects define information that is transported by a simple message set. It is flexible and scalable, and is used to manage very small networks as well as large, distributed networks. Many good tools are available, both open source and commercial.
This handbook is intended for both developers and network engineers, those new to SNMP as well as seasoned practitioners. It serves as an instructional manual as well as a reference, and contains case studies, practical advice, clear descriptions of standards, user exercises and quiz questions.
Content is based on a series of training seminars developed by the author, which have been delivered to SNMP practitioners in a variety of endeavors—government agencies, university IT-department, telephone companies, electronics manufacturers, printer company, aircraft manufacturer, television equipment providers, television broadcaster, automated fare collection system, space agency.
The handbook is MIB-centric, but covers many closely related topics—a sampling:
· SNMP tutorial describing important aspects of the entire protocol—messaging standards, security, agent models, network models, and enterprises
· Clear descriptions of the two versions of syntax— SMIv1 and SMIv2
· MIB syntax examples are provided from many standard MIBs
· Diagnosing MIBs which managers fail to compile properly
· MIB-toolkit recommendations
· Managing networks—how to research MIB requirements, how to locate needed MIBs
· Partitioning MIBs — Enterprise SMI, Textual Convention, Subsystem, Product
· Expected support for standard MIBs by all agent platforms
· Agent semantics and development issues
· Trap models and configuration of trap filters in managers
· Indexed tables, agent row-creation, manager row-creation
· A recommended MIB development process is described
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