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Sources of SNMP Information

This appendix lists sources of additional information about Simple Network Management Protocol, including the following:

- Reference Books

- Standards and Drafts

- Obtaining RFCs

Reference Books

If you need additional information about MIBs, agents, or the SNMP protocol, refer to these books:

- Comer, Douglas; Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol. 2; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991

- Leinwand, Allan and Fang, Karen; Network Management: A Practical Perspective; Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1993

- Rose, Marshall T.; The Simple Book: An Introduction to Management of TCP/IP-based Internets; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991

- Rose, Marshall T.; The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on Open Systems Interconnection; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1989

- Miller, Mark; Managing Internetworks with SNMP, M & T Books

- Stallings, William; SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network Management Standards, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1993

Standards and Drafts

The SNMP protocol has been defined through a series of Requests for Comments (RFCs). The following standards and drafts are available.

Figure 3-1 SNMP RFCs

RFC Number | Description
--- | ---
052 | IAB Recommendations
1089 | SNMP over Ethernet
1109 | Ad-hoc Review
1155 | Structure of Management Information
1156 | Management Information Base (MIB-I)
1157 | SNMP Protocol
1161 | SNMP over OSI
1187 | Bulk table retrieval
1212 | Concise MIB definitions
1213 | Management Information Base (MIB-II)
1214 | OSI MIB
1215 | Traps
1227 | SNMP Multiplex (SMUX)
1228 | SNMP-DPI
1229 | Generic-interface MIB extensions
1230 IEEE 802.4 | Token Bus MIB
1231 IEEE 802.5 | Token Ring MIB
1239 | Reassignment of MIBs
1243 | AppleTalk MIB
1248 | OSPF MIB
ISO 8824 | ASN.1
ISO 8825 | BER for ASN.1

Obtaining RFCs

You can obtain Requests for Comments in the following ways:

- Download them from almost anywhere on the Internet

- Obtain them from SRI International

  Mailing Address: SRI International, EJ291, DDN Network Information Center, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park CA 94025

  Phone: +1.800.235.3155

  e-mail: MAIL-SERVER@nisc.sri.com. Leave the subject field blank. In the body, enter: SEND RFCnnnn.TXT-1

  FTP: ftp://ftp.nisc.sri.com/rfc/rfcNNNN.txt

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