What s New in This Edition


What's New in This Edition

This second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded. It includes the following new features:

  • Chapter 1 includes coverage of the concepts behind network management and change management.

  • Chapter 2 provides packet traces of the various SNMP operations.

  • Chapter 3 provides coverage of SNMPv3. This chapter was an appendix in the first edition; it has been expanded to a full chapter.

  • SNMPc coverage has been expanded in Chapters 5 and 9.

  • Chapter 11 explains the use of scripts for a variety of tasks. This chapter has doubled in size to include many new scripts. You'll find scripts for service monitoring techniques for SMTP, POP3, HTTP, and DNS, a Perl-based SNMP agent, switch port control, usage of the Cisco Ping MIB, and a section on wireless access point (WAP) monitoring.

  • Chapter 13, new in this edition, discusses RRDtool and Cricket.

  • Chapter 14, also new in this edition, is devoted to showing how Java can be used to create SNMP applications.

  • Appendix E provides a brief overview of Net-SNMP's Perl module.

  • Appendix G provides details on the most commonly used open source tools for network management and monitoring.

  • Appendix H introduces the most commonly used network troubleshooting tools.




Essential SNMP
Essential SNMP, Second Edition
ISBN: 0596008406
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 165

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