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8000-A2-GB21-30
April 1998
SNMP Agent
8
Overview
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-level
protocol used in network management. A Network Management System (NMS),
such as Paradyne’s OpenLane DCE Manager, communicates to an SNMP agent
via SNMP in order to obtain (get) specific parameters or variables within control
of the SNMP agent.
When DCE Manager is configured properly, it can communicate with the Hotwire
DSLAM SNMP agent. Almost all communications between the DCE Manager and
the Hotwire DSLAM SNMP agent originate with a request message from the DCE
Manager to the Hotwire DSLAM. When the DSLAM receives the request, the
Hotwire DSLAM SNMP agent processes the request message and transmits a
response (positive or negative) message back to the DCE Manager. When
certain significant events occur within the SNMP agent, this can result in
transmission of unprompted SNMP trap messages to the DCE Manager. (Note
that the Hotwire DSLAM SNMP agent is SNMP Version 1 (V1) compliant with
community-based management.)
This chapter describes what you need to know to configure the SNMP agent
within the Hotwire DSLAM. This chapter does not, however, describe the
procedures on how to configure the SNMP agent. For those procedures, see the
Hotwire DSLAM for 8540 and 8546 DSL Cards User’s Guide
.
