FW V06.XX/HAFM SW V08.02.00 HP StorageWorks SNMP Reference for Directors and Edge Switches (AA-RQ7BE-TE, July 2004)

15SNMP Reference for Directors and Edge Switches

Introduction to SNMP

Network management is a broad term, including workstation configuration,

assignment of IP addresses, network design, architecture, security, and topologies.

All this can fall within the scope of a network manager.

Any protocol for managing networks must allow virtually all network devices and

systems to communicate statistics and status information to network management

stations (network managers). This communication must be independent of the

primary network transmission medium and not degrade the efficiency of the

network. Network managers must be able to obtain status information from

managed devices, and make changes in the way the managed devices handle

network traffic.

Network managers must be able to do this without knowing anything about the

managed device itself. Management using the simple network management

protocol (SNMP) is one way of meeting these requirements.