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Chapter 11 Monitoring Tools
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Getting the Latest MIB Information
To obtain the latest copy of these and other RFCs, FTP the files from one
of the following two sources:
Internet:
ftp.isi.edu\internet-drafts
World Wide Web:
http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/lid-abstracts.html
SNMP
SNMP is the protocol used to communicate between manager and agent.
Managers request information, usually through automated polling at
specified intervals, and agents respond. Though used primarily on TCP/
IP networks, SNMP can be implemented on other protocols, for example,
IPX.
SNMP is a standard by which a network manager can get statistics and
configuration information from the NICs and other devices on the network.
This is done through a Network Management Station (NMS), such as IBM
NetView.
Monitoring Tools
Many tools can be used to monitor printers with SNMP agents. One of
these tools is IBM NetView*. There are also other MIB browsers, which
are not described here.
OS/2 TCP/IP
To get SNMP.EXE to work correctly to browse MIB items, you may need
to delete the following file:
d:\mptn\etc\mib2.tbl