Learning SNMP

[Ben Boulanger]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> At some point soon I may be called upon to
> know more about SNMP than how to spell it,
> so I'm looking for recommendations for
> the best books/docs to read to get a good
> general understanding.

Essential SNMP (Oreilly) and
Understanding SNMP mibs are my two favorites..

> A while back I briefly fooled around
> with the snmpd and scli packages that are
> available for Debian but got busy and had
> to put them aside - they're probably what
> I'll go back to for the hands-on learning
> sessions unless somebody wants to recommend
> something better...

MRTG adds a great cool factor.  It's a little daunting to setup, but just 
use one of the canned scripts to get it going right out of the gate... 
then customize later..  

That was my approach! :)

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