Networking Guide
Chapter 8, Configuring the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

For more about SNMP

For more about SNMP

To obtain more information about SNMP and other related protocols, consult the following manual pages:

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 Manual page        Information provided
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 getid(ADMN)        retrieve system MIB variables
 getmany(ADMN)      retrieve class of SNMP variables
 getmet(ADMN)       retrieve routing metrics from SNMP entity
 getnext(ADMN)      retrieve the next SNMP variable
 getone(ADMN)       retrieve a single SNMP variable
 getroute(ADMN)     retrieve routing info from SNMP entity
 getsub(ADMN)       retrieve routing subnets from SNMP entity
 snmpd(ADMN)        the SNMP daemon
 snmpstat(ADMN)     SNMP statistics command
 mosy(ADMN)         managed object compiler
 post_mosy(ADMN)    back-end wrapper for mosy
 setany(ADMN)       set an SNMP variable
 trap_rece(ADMN)    receive an SNMP trap
 trap_send(ADMN)    send an SNMP trap
 snmpd.comm(SFF)    communities configuration file
 snmpd.conf(SFF)    system configuration file
 snmpd.peers(SFF)   peers configuration file
 snmpd.trap(SFF)    trap configuration file
To get more information about SNMP and related protocols, see the following Requests for Comments (RFCs). For information on how to obtain RFCs, see ``Obtaining RFCs from the Internet''. 
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 RFC     Title
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 768     User Datagram Protocol
 1058    Routing Information Protocol
 1155    Structure and Identification of Management Information for
         TCP/IP-Based Internets
 1156    Management Information Base for Network Management of
         TCP/IP-Based Internets
 1157    Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
 1213    Management Information Base for Network Management of
         TCP/IP-based Internets:MIB-II
 1227    SNMP MUX Protocol and MIB
A good place to start for beginners is the book The Simple Book, by Marshall T. Rose, copyright 1991 by Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ. ISBN: 0-13-812611-9.