Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

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A standard TCP/IP protocol for network management. Network administrators use SNMP to monitor and map network availability, performance, and error rates. To work with SNMP, network devices utilize a distributed data store called the Management Information Base (MIB). All SNMP-compliant devices contain a MIB which supplies the pertinent attributes of a device. Some attributes are fixed or “hard-coded” in the MIB, while others are dynamic values calculated by agent software running on the device.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-82 Rev. 2 API 1164

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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

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