Introducing Enterprise Manager Support for SNMP

This chapter provides a brief overview of Enterprise Manager support for SNMP. It includes the following sections:

• Benefits of SNMP Support

• About the SNMP Management Station

• How Enterprise Manager Supports SNMP

• Sending SNMP Trap Notifications

• Monitoring External Devices Using SNMP

• About the Management Information Base (MIB)

• About Metric Extensions

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol used for managing or monitoring devices, where many of these devices are network-type devices such as routers, switches, and so on. SNMP enables a single application to first retrieve information, then push new information between a wide range of systems independent of the underlying hardware.

Designed primarily for database, network, and system administrators, SNMP support integrates Enterprise Manager into a number of existing, widely-used management systems. Also, Enterprise Manager can extend its monitoring scope to devices that can be monitored using SNMP.