Quo vadis, SNMP?

What you get

Due to the huge number of devices on the market, from multiple manufacturers, it was imperative to introduce a standard protocol for monitoring.

That is when IETF1 developed Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) towards the end of the 80s.

In this paper you will discover...

...why SNMP is still a standard protocol in monitoring today.

... how exactly SNMP works.
...what the alternatives to SNMP are.
...what the future holds for this monitoring protocol.

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