Chapter 1 Introduction to SNMP and Network Management

1. What Is SNMP?

2. The Concept of Network Management

3. Applying the Concepts of Network Management

4. Change Management

5. Getting More Information

Chapter 2 SNMPv1 and SNMPv2

1. SNMP and UDP

2. SNMP Communities

3. The Structure of Management Information

4. Extensions to the SMI in Version 2

5. A Closer Look at MIB-II

6. SNMP Operations

7. Host Management Revisited

8. Remote Monitoring Revisited

9. Reverse Engineering SNMP

Chapter 3 SNMPv3

1. Changes in SNMPv3

2. USM

3. VACM

4. SNMPv3 in the Real World

Chapter 4 NMS Architectures

1. Hardware Considerations

2. NMS Architectures

3. A Look Ahead

Chapter 5 Configuring Your NMS

1. HP's OpenView Network Node Manager

2. Castle Rock's SNMPc Enterprise Edition

Chapter 6 Configuring SNMP Agents

1. Parameter Settings

2. Security Concerns

3. Agent Configuration Walkthroughs

Chapter 7 Polling and Setting

1. Retrieving a Single MIB Value

2. Retrieving Multiple MIB Values

3. Setting a MIB Value

4. Error Responses

Chapter 8 Polling and Thresholds

1. Internal Polling

2. External Polling

Chapter 9 Traps

1. Understanding Traps

2. Receiving Traps

3. Sending Traps

Chapter 10 Extensible SNMP Agents

1. Net-SNMP

2. SystemEDGE

3. OpenView's Extensible Agent

Chapter 11 Adapting SNMP to Fit Your Environment

1. General Trap-Generation Program

2. Who's Logging into My Machine? (I-Am-In)

3. Throw Core

4. Veritas Disk Check

5. Disk-Space Checker

6. Port Monitor

7. Service Monitoring

8. Pinging with Cisco

9. Simple SNMP Agent

10. Switch Port Control

11. Wireless Networking

12. SNMP: The Object-Oriented Way

13. Final Words

Chapter 12 MRTG

1. Using MRTG

2. Viewing Graphs

3. Graphing Other Objects

4. Other Data-Gathering Applications

5. Pitfalls

6. Getting Help

Chapter 13 RRDtool and Cricket

1. RRDtool

2. Cricket

Chapter 14 Java and SNMP

1. SNMP4J

2. SNMP getnext

3. SNMP set

4. Sending Traps and Informs

5. Receiving Traps and Informs

6. Resources

Chapter 15 About the Authors