4.7 References and Further Study

Chapter 2 describes the SNMP protocol that Neo uses to perform its tasks and includes details on some of the relevant SNMP variables as well. The GNU readline library and other GNU tools are available from http://www.gnu.org/. Neo is available from http://web.mit.edu/ktools/, and bugs , problems, or suggestions for improvements should be sent to [e-mail].

There are many other SNMP-based management programs available. HP's OpenView (http://www.openview.hp.com/) is a widely used commercial example, and Scotty/Tkined (http://www.home.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/ scotty /) is an open source example. This kind of program most often has a graphical user interface, and these two programs are no exception. This is a major disadvantage for accomplishing many administration tasks. One tool that does not have a graphical user interface is ND, written at Texas A&M University. A paper describing this system is available at http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa00/ mitchell .html.