Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Question 1

What is SNMP?

Answer 1

Simple Network Management Protocol

internet protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks, and for modifying that information to change the device’s behavior.

Things like: routers and switches and firewalls, and printers and servers and even your end user client devices.

Question 2

What’s a Granular Trap?

Answer 2

Sent trap messages get a unique objective identifier to distinguish each message as a unique message being received

Question 3

What is the MIB?

Answer 3

Management Information Base

used to describe the structure of the management data of a device subsystem using a hierarchal namespace containing the object identifier

Question 4

What are Verbose Traps?

Answer 4

SNMP traps may be configured to contain all the information about a given alert or event as a payload.