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334 Observer Suite: SNMP Management
Network Instruments designed SNMP Management Console as a highly functional, easy-
to-use feature of FrameMaker Suite to help you take advantage of SNMP's capabilities.
SNMP Management Console includes an SNMP management plug-in for Observer, a
MIB compiler, and a graphical forms editor/viewer—a complete RFC-compliant
implementation of SNMP for the Microsoft Windows 2000/XP platforms.
Whether you're a network administrator, network user, programmer, network application
developer, or network product tester, SNMP Management Console delivers features that
will help you get the most from SNMP and your network.
SNMP Management Console offers:
• Greater network control—in addition to helping you collect network management
information, SNMP Management Console can set or configure writable objects. You
may, for example, switch modes on a network printer or reconfigure a 100BaseT
Ethernet hub or switch.
• Extended Management Information Base (MIB) support—since SNMP Management
Console supports any MIB-2 (RFC1213) agents installed on most Windows 2000/XP,
Windows NT, UNIX, Linux, and NetWare systems and devices, SNMP Management
Console lets you install MIB definitions for SNMP agents from different vendors. If
your network includes SNMP devices from different vendors, separate MIB
definitions can be installed and used simultaneously by SNMP Management Console.
• Ease of use—SNMP Management Console’s modular design makes it both powerful
and easy to use. Different SNMP functions are divided among the main windows, and
multiple agent data can be viewed simultaneously.
Who Should Use SNMP Management Console?
Any network administrator, systems consultant, or network programmer will find SNMP
Management Console useful. SNMP Management Console and its related utilities are
designed to meet the needs of network professionals, ranging from beginner to expert.
SNMP Management Console is most useful for network administrators who want to
monitor their LANs and manage SNMP-aware devices from a single location. SNMP
Management Console helps administrators make decisions based on hard facts instead of
guesswork.
In many cases, SNMP provides more information or different information that is not
accessible using other network analysis tools, helping the administrator pinpoint problems
and determine solutions that might be overlooked otherwise.
SNMP Management Console Main Components
The SNMP Management Console software package includes the following components: