Sources of SNMP Information

 

This appendix lists sources of additional information about Simple Network Management Protocol, including the following:

• Reference Books

• Standards and Drafts

• Obtaining RFCs

 

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Reference Books

If you need additional information about MIBs, agents, or the SNMP protocol, refer to these books:

• Comer, Douglas; Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol. 2; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991

• Leinwand, Allan and Fang, Karen; Network Management: A Practical Perspective; Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1993

• Rose, Marshall T.; The Simple Book: An Introduction to Management of TCP/IP-based Internets; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991

• Rose, Marshall T.; The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on Open Systems Interconnection; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1989

• Miller, Mark; Managing Internetworks with SNMP, M & T Books

• Stallings, William; SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network Management Standards, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1993

 

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Standards and Drafts

The SNMP protocol has been defined through a series of Requests for Comments (RFCs). The following standards and drafts are available.

Figure 3-1 SNMP RFCs

 

RFC Number	Description
052	IAB Recommendations
1089	SNMP over Ethernet
1109	Ad-hoc Review
1155	Structure of Management Information
1156	Management Information Base (MIB-I)
1157	SNMP Protocol
1161	SNMP over OSI
1187	Bulk table retrieval
1212	Concise MIB definitions
1213	Management Information Base (MIB-II)
1214	OSI MIB
1215	Traps
1227	SNMP Multiplex (SMUX)
1228	SNMP-DPI
1229	Generic-interface MIB extensions
1230 IEEE 802.4	Token Bus MIB
1231 IEEE 802.5	Token Ring MIB
1239	Reassignment of MIBs
1243	AppleTalk MIB
1248	OSPF MIB
ISO 8824	ASN.1
ISO 8825	BER for ASN.1

 

 

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Obtaining RFCs

You can obtain Requests for Comments in the following ways:

• Download them from almost anywhere on the Internet

• Obtain them from SRI International

  Mailing Address: SRI International, EJ291, DDN Network Information Center, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park CA 94025

  Phone: [phone]

  e-mail: [e-mail]. Leave the subject field blank. In the body, enter: SEND RFCnnnn.TXT-1

  FTP: ftp://ftp.nisc.sri.com/rfc/rfcNNNN.txt