Table of Contents

Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition
By Douglas Mauro, Kevin Schmidt
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: September 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00840-6
Pages: 460

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Preface
			Audience for This Book
			Organization
			What's New in This Edition
			Example Programs
			Using Code Examples
			Conventions Used in This Book
			Comments and Questions
			Safari® Enabled
			Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
			Acknowledgments for the First Edition
		Chapter 1.  Introduction to SNMP and Network Management
			Section 1.1.  What Is SNMP?
			Section 1.2.  The Concept of Network Management
			Section 1.3.  Applying the Concepts of Network Management
			Section 1.4.  Change Management
			Section 1.5.  Getting More Information
		Chapter 2.  SNMPv1 and SNMPv2
			Section 2.1.  SNMP and UDP
			Section 2.2.  SNMP Communities
			Section 2.3.  The Structure of Management Information
			Section 2.4.  Extensions to the SMI in Version 2
			Section 2.5.  A Closer Look at MIB-II
			Section 2.6.  SNMP Operations
			Section 2.7.  Host Management Revisited
			Section 2.8.  Remote Monitoring Revisited
			Section 2.9.  Reverse Engineering SNMP
		Chapter 3.  SNMPv3
			Section 3.1.  Changes in SNMPv3
			Section 3.2.  USM
			Section 3.3.  VACM
			Section 3.4.  SNMPv3 in the Real World
		Chapter 4.  NMS Architectures
			Section 4.1.  Hardware Considerations
			Section 4.2.  NMS Architectures
			Section 4.3.  A Look Ahead
		Chapter 5.  Configuring Your NMS
			Section 5.1.  HP's OpenView Network Node Manager
			Section 5.2.  Castle Rock's SNMPc Enterprise Edition
		Chapter 6.  Configuring SNMP Agents
			Section 6.1.  Parameter Settings
			Section 6.2.  Security Concerns
			Section 6.3.  Agent Configuration Walkthroughs
		Chapter 7.  Polling and Setting
			Section 7.1.  Retrieving a Single MIB Value
			Section 7.2.  Retrieving Multiple MIB Values
			Section 7.3.  Setting a MIB Value
			Section 7.4.  Error Responses
		Chapter 8.  Polling and Thresholds
			Section 8.1.  Internal Polling
			Section 8.2.  External Polling
		Chapter 9.  Traps
			Section 9.1.  Understanding Traps
			Section 9.2.  Receiving Traps
			Section 9.3.  Sending Traps
		Chapter 10.  Extensible SNMP Agents
			Section 10.1.  Net-SNMP
			Section 10.2.  SystemEDGE
			Section 10.3.  OpenView's Extensible Agent
		Chapter 11.  Adapting SNMP to Fit Your Environment
			Section 11.1.  General Trap-Generation Program
			Section 11.2.  Who's Logging into My Machine? (I-Am-In)
			Section 11.3.  Throw Core
			Section 11.4.  Veritas Disk Check
			Section 11.5.  Disk-Space Checker
			Section 11.6.  Port Monitor
			Section 11.7.  Service Monitoring
			Section 11.8.  Pinging with Cisco
			Section 11.9.  Simple SNMP Agent
			Section 11.10.  Switch Port Control
			Section 11.11.  Wireless Networking
			Section 11.12.  SNMP: The Object-Oriented Way
			Section 11.13.  Final Words
		Chapter 12.  MRTG
			Section 12.1.  Using MRTG
			Section 12.2.  Viewing Graphs
			Section 12.3.  Graphing Other Objects
			Section 12.4.  Other Data-Gathering Applications
			Section 12.5.  Pitfalls
			Section 12.6.  Getting Help
		Chapter 13.  RRDtool and Cricket
			Section 13.1.  RRDtool
			Section 13.2.  Cricket
		Chapter 14.  Java and SNMP
			Section 14.1.  SNMP4J
			Section 14.2.  SNMP getnext
			Section 14.3.  SNMP set
			Section 14.4.  Sending Traps and Informs
			Section 14.5.  Receiving Traps and Informs
			Section 14.6.  Resources
		Appendix A.  Using Input and Output Octets
		Appendix B.  More on OpenView's NNM
			Section B.1.  Using External Data
			Section B.2.  Adding a Menu to NNM
			Section B.3.  Profiles for Different Users
			Section B.4.  Using NNM for Communications
		Appendix C.  Net-SNMP Tools
			Section C.1.  Net-SNMP and MIB Files
			Section C.2.  Common Command-Line Arguments
			Section C.3.  Net-SNMP Command-Line Tools
		Appendix D.  SNMP RFCs
			Section D.1.  SMIv1 Data Definition Language
			Section D.2.  SMIv2 Data Definition Language
			Section D.3.  SNMPv3 Protocol
			Section D.4.  SNMP Agent Extensibility
			Section D.5.  SMIv1 MIB Modules
			Section D.6.  SMIv2 MIB Modules
			Section D.7.  IANA-Maintained MIB Modules
			Section D.8.  Related Documents
		Appendix E.  SNMP Support for Perl
			Section E.1.  SNMP_Util
			Section E.2.  Net-SNMP
		Appendix F.  Network Management Software
			Section F.1.  SNMP Agents
			Section F.2.  NMS Suites
			Section F.3.  Element Managers (Vendor-Specific Management)
			Section F.4.  Trend Analysis
			Section F.5.  Supporting Software
		Appendix G.  Open Source Monitoring Software
			Section G-1.  Big Brother
			Section G-2.  Nagios
			Section G-3.  JFFNMS
			Section G-4.  OpenNMS
			Section G-5.  NINO
		Appendix H.  Network Troubleshooting Primer
			Section H-1.  ping
			Section H-2.  ipconfig and ifconfig
			Section H-3.  arp
			Section H-4.  netstat
			Section H-5.  traceroute and tracert
			Section H-6.  nslookup and dig
			Section H-7.  whois
			Section H-8.  Ethereal
		About the Authors
		Colophon
		Index