User`s guide

The SNMP Agent 5-1
Chapter 5
The SNMP Agent
Overview
The MultiSwitch 300 contains a built-in SNMP agent running on the SNMP
processor board. This allows each MultiSwitch 300 to be managed from a
centralized management station with any SNMP-compliant NMS.
The SNMP agent software complies with the following standards:
• RFC 1155 - The Structure of Management Information (SMI) for TCP/IP Based
Internets, May 1990
• RFC 1556 - Management Information Base (MIB) for Network Managers of TCP/
IP Based Internets, May 1990
• RFC 1557 - The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), May 1990
• RFC 1213 - The Management Information Base II (MIB II), March 1991
• RFC 1643 - Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types
• RFC 1573 - Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II, January 1994
• RFC 1493 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges, July 1993
• RFC 793 - Transmission Control Protocol
• RFC 854 - Telnet Protocol Specification
• RFC 1055 - Non-standard for transmission of IP datagrams over serial lines: SLIP,
January 1988
The SNMP agent utilizes UDP/IP (RFC 768, RFC 950, RFC 1071 and RFC 791) as
OSI layers 3 and 4 protocols, ICMP(RFC 792) and ARP(RFC 826) to complete the
UDP/IP protocol suite.
The UDP/IP stack implementation is conformant to:
• RFC 1122 - Requirements for Internet hosts - communication layers
• RFC 1123 - Requirements for Internet hosts - application and support