Specifications

CHAPTER
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Cisco Global Site Selector Administration Guide
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Configuring SNMP
This chapter describes how to configure Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) to query GSS devices for standard MIB resources.
It contains the following major sections:
• Overview
• Configuring SNMP on Your GSS
• Viewing SNMP Status
• Viewing MIB Files on the GSS
Overview
SNMP is a set of network management standards for IP-based internetworks.
SNMP includes a protocol, a database-structure specification, and a set of
management data objects. SNMP implementations typically consist of a
management application running on one or more network management systems
(NMSs), and agent applications, usually executing in firmware on various
network devices.
SNMP obtains information from the network through a Management Information
Base (MIB). The MIB is a database of code blocks called MIB objects. Each MIB
object controls one specific function, such as counting how many bytes are
transmitted through an agent’s port. The MIB object consists of MIB variables,
which define the MIB object name, description, and default value.