Importance of snmp

Protocol

PURPOSE OF SNMP:
The purpose of SNMP is to provide network
devices, such as routers, servers and printers,
with a common language for sharing
information with a network management
system (NMS).

IMPORTANCE:
1) Centralized Management
2) Minimum Hardware Support
3) Better Coordination
4) No Hierarchical Topology
5) MIB Variables
6) MIB Additions
7) Simple Architecture
8) Monitoring
9) Alerts.
1) Centralized Management:
Since, the architect of SNMP is around a single
management system through which multiple
other nodes are managed.
It, thus gives the network administrator the
feasibility to efficiently manage the functioning
to connected devices& networks.
2) Minimum Hardware support:
Since SNMP works at application layers, thus
it can be run along with the other program.no
additional hardware is required for installing
SNMP applications.
3) No Hierarchical Topology:
SNMP is arranged to be functional with peer-
to-peer topology.
Here the managing software communication
directly to the agent and vice-versa
4) MIB Variables:
Within a communication network, MIB is used
for managing entities.
Since, these MIB variables can be used foe
multiple network devices and operations.
5) MIB Additions:
MIB is a formatted text file used for collecting
the information and saving it hierarchically .
SNMP uses the data from MIB to interpret
message from end users.

6) Simple Architecture:
SNMP has a simple architecture based on the
four operations only.
These four operations are get, get-next ,set
and trap.
7) Better Coordination:
SNMP is aimed at performing better with a
different vendor products.
8) Monitoring:
Network administrators can monitor the
health of the devices with SNMP centralised
architecture.
They can receive information like bandwidth
,memory usage, CPU load, etc…..
9) Alerts:
Network administrators can quickly attend to
any of the faults that happened within a
hardware because of alert the systems.