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13.6 Configuring SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol is a protocol used for exchanging management information
between network devices. SNMP is a member of the TCP/IP protocol suite. Your 1500WR Wireless
Router supports SNMP agent functionality, which allows a manager station to manage and monitor the
1500WR Wireless Router through the network. The 1500WR Wireless Router supports SNMP version
one (SNMPvl) and version two c (SNMPv2c).
The next figure illustrates an SNMP management operation. SNMP is only available if TCP/IP is
configured.
An SNMP managed network consists of
two main types of component: agents and a
manager.
An agent is a management software
module that resides in a managed device
(the 1500WR Wireless Router). An agent
translates the local management information
from the managed device into a form
compatible with SNMP. The manager
is the console through which network
administrators perform network management
functions. It executes applications that
control and monitor managed devices.
The managed devices contain object
variables/managed objects that define each
piece of information to be collected about
a device. Examples of variables include
the number of packets received, node port
status etc. A Management Information Base
(MIB) is a collection of managed objects.
SNMP allows a manager and agents to
communicate for the purpose of accessing
these objects.
SNMP itself is a simple request/response protocol based on the manager/agent model. The manager
issues a request and the agent returns responses using the following protocol operations:
• Get - Allows the manager to retrieve an object variable from the agent.
• GetNext - Allows the manager to retrieve the next object variable from a table or list within an agent.
In SNMPvl, when a manager wants to retrieve all elements of a table from an agent, it initiates a
Get operation, followed by a series of GetNext operations.
• Set - Allows the manager to set values for object variables within an agent.
• Trap - Used by the agent to inform the manager of some events.