User's Manual

AN-30e
user manual
70-00035-01 Proprietary Redline Communications © 2004 November 2004
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8.5 About SNMP
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a distributed network management
system designed to monitor network infrastructure and application availability.
SNMP has become the de facto standard for internetwork management.
Network management systems consist of two primary elements: managers and agents.
The manager is the console through which the network administrator performs
network management functions. Agents are the entities that interface to the actual
devices being managed.
The AN-30e terminal is a managed device. Managed devices contain managed
objects that may be hardware, configuration parameters, performance statistics, etc.
that directly relate to the operation of the device in question, and are contained in a
virtual information database known as a Management Information Base (MIB).
SNMP allows managers and agents to communicate for accessing these objects.
Management information bases (MIBs) are a collection of definitions that define the
properties of the managed object within the device to be managed. Every managed
device keeps a database of values for each of the definitions written in the MIB. The
MIB is not the actual database itself - it is implementation dependant. The latest
Internet MIB is given in RFC 1213, also referred to as MIB-II.
The AN-30e operates with any third party network management system supporting
SNMP v1 and MIB II. Most of the statistics and configuration parameters available
through the web interface are supported via SNMP. The latest MIB file may be
obtained by contacting your Redline certified partner or system integrator.