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 | | SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON 1 and 2 (3rd Edition) by William Stallings ISBN-10: 9780201485349 ISBN-10: 0-201-48534-6 ISBN-13: 9780201485349 ISBN-13: 978-0-201-48534-9 Hardcover 1999-01-01 Addison-Wesley Professional Find Lowest Price |
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Amazon.com The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the related Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) standards make it possible for network administrators to control and monitor even the most complicated networks. In a textbook-style treatment, William Stallings's SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON 1 and 2 explains what's behind this family of popular networking standards. The book begins with some theory about what tasks network administrators need to do, such as monitoring performance, faults, and accounting, along with configuration and security control. The guide then describes SNMP--which was introduced in 1989--as a successful solution to the basic problems of network administration. (One of the strengths of SNMP is that it allows administrators to work with disparate networks running on TCP/IP.) The author details how an SNMP Management Information Base (MIB), which stores network information, is organized and also how the protocol works to collect and store network information. The RMON standard actually uses SNMP with its own MIB format to collect statistics about a network. The author provides detailed descriptions of this information, along with RMON filters and alarms, which can be used to troubleshoot a network. New and improved standards RMONv2, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3 comprise the remainder of this book. RMONv2 allows network administration of more kinds of networks and devices. SNMPv2 provides enhanced administration capabilities, while SNMPv3 adds the security and encryption that was lacking in earlier versions of the protocol. This textbook is crammed with tables and statistics, and shows off the author's command of the relevant networking standards. Much more readable than the Request for Comments (RFC) documents that describe these standards, this title provides a comprehensive reference work on SNMP and RMON for the working Internet professional. --Richard Dragan | ||
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Good solid information First off the book showed up quickly (Under 7 days, I forget exactly how many, but I was satisfied) Second, we develop and maintain an embedded SNMP implementation in our product. I understood snmpv1, was weak on v2 and knew nothing of v3. This book gave me a good solid understanding of snmpv3 and how it interacts with v1 & v2. So I found this book useful for my uses in implementing and maintaining snmp. | ||
Good Book Good reference for SNMP. Quite useful introduction on Network Management principles, to set the stage.You may need to dig into some more detail reference (RFCs) for some specific answers but still this book is suggested for SNMP developers and testers. | ||
Good for developpers - bad for systems administrators This book is deep down description of all the OIDs and structure of SNMP. If you want to know how the messages get through (SNMP get and other commands) in a developer's point of view, and you want a full dump of all the leafs and OIDs in the MIB structure, then this book is for you. If you are a systems administrator looking for a practical way to understand how to use SNMP to manage your network devices, then look elsewhere (Essential SNMP, for instance). | ||
Excellent Book This is the best book I found on SNMP. I found Essential SNMP to be lacking in detail and the descriptions in Managing Internetworks with SNMP were not so clear. So far it has been able to answer every question I have had regarding SNMP. | ||
Worst Book Yet I had to buy this book as part of a Network Management class and have found it to be utterly useless during and afterwards. It is definatly the worse book that I have ever had to buy. First, it was mighty expensive for the quality of the writing/material. Second, the material within the book could have covered in a much better way. It was very difficult to understand because it travelled much to far into SNMP/RMON. I found it almost useless as a reference, because it did not cover anything in a way that was pertinant to actually using SNMP/RMON on a network. I believe that Stallings definatly complicates SNMP beyond all reconition, FUBAR even. It lacked real world examples and uses. Perhaps this book would be great for someone who develops apps based on SNMP, but for someone who wants to learn about using it, its a massive waste of time. | ||