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59047-03 B 2-1
Section 2
SNMP Overview
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the protocol governing network
management and monitoring of network devices. This Simple Network
Management Protocol Reference Guide describes how to use SNMP to manage
and monitor the SANbox/SANbox2 switch products. Specifically, this guide
describes the SNMP agent that resides on the switch.
The following topics are covered in this section:
SNMP interface objectives
Manager and agent
Traps
Management information bases (MIBs)
User datagram protocol (UDP)
Numbering system conventions
2.1
SNMP Interface Objectives
The objectives of the SNMP Interface are as follows:
Connect to the SNMP agent that resides on the switch using a management
workstation.
Support of Fabric Element Management Information Bases (FE-MIB)
(rfc2837) and Fibre Alliance Management Information Bases (FA-MIB) draft.
Support of version 1 and 2 traps.
The SNMP agent supports SNMPv1and SNMPv2c.
2.2
Manager and Agent
The two primary elements of SNMP are:
Manager - the application that runs on the management workstation.
Agent - the daemon application that runs on the switch.
The Manager is the application through which the network administrator performs
network management functions. The SNMP agent is the direct interface on the
switch for any SNMP manager connecting to the switch using the SNMP protocol,
as shown in Figure 2-1. The agent will be started by the script file(s) responsible
for switch initialization when the switch powers up or when the switch is reset.