Reference Materials

The following books contain more information about SNMP.

Network Management: A Practical Perspective

by Allan Leinwand and Karen Fang
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc 1993
ISBN 0-201-52771-5

SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network-Management Standards

by William Stallings
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc 1993
ISBN 0-201-63331-0

The Simple Book: An Introduction to Management of TCP/IP-based Internets

by Marshall T. Rose
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1994
ISBN 0-13-177254-6

Internetworking with TCP/IP

Volume 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (third edition)
by Douglas E. Comer
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1991
ISBN 0-13-468505-9

The following Requests for Comments (RFCs) are published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and other working groups. The RFCs that define SNMP are listed in the following table.

Table 11.6 RFC Specifications about SNMP

RFC

Title

1155

Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets

1157

Simple Network Management Protocol

1213

Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II


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