- SNMP Foundations
- Important references
- History, trends, strengths, weaknesses
- Understanding standards
- RFC’s from the IETF
- ASN.1 used to define SNMP
- Enterprises
- OID’s (Object Identifiers) used to identify organizations
- Where to get an Enterprise OID, how to use it, and how to manage an Enterprise OID space
- Message standards
- SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, SNMPv3
- Manager/Agent protocol operations
- UDP transport issues
- Security of the protocol
- MIB (Management Information Base)
- SMIv1 and SMIv2 syntax
- Examples of MIB content and organization
- OID’s and instance values of MIB objects
- Terminology summary
- SNMP Network Management Principles
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- Manager Products: Categories and examples
- Architectures of SNMP-managed networks
- Managing SNMP agents
- Agent configuration: Data & methods
- Potential agent problems
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- Manager functionality
- Discovery and mapping
- Monitoring system availability
- Monitoring non-SNMP functions
- Handling traps (alarms) from agents
- Real-time data collection
- Long-term data trend reports
- Manager configuration
- GUI behavior
- Device discovery
- Device access and attributes
- MIB compilation
- Trap filters
- Local alarms
- Custom tables
- Debugging an SNMP Managed Environment
- Command line tools
- Using validating MIB compilers
- Network traffic capture tools
- Understanding MIBs
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- MIB syntax
- SMIv1 and SMIv2 differences
- Object types
- Data types
- Data subtypes (textual conventions)
- Table structures
- Conformance statements
- Complex MIBs
- MIB objects and agent semantics
- Resolving MIB compilation problems
- Typical uses of MIB data objects
- Wrap-up: Course Recap, Q/A, Evaluations
