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SNMP

SNMP

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SNMP

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- [Instructor] The Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP, provides network administrators with a means to centrally configure and monitor network devices. On large networks, it's clearly not practical to manage every network device manually. Administrators would have to spend large portions of time running around the network, either physically or virtually, adjusting configurations and collecting log entries. This is time consuming work that is not particularly productive. SNMP automates many of these tasks, performing the heavy lifting for administrators, who can then spend their time doing design work or higher level monitoring. Let's take a look at how SNMP works. There are three components involved in SNMP network administration. The managed devices are all the network devices around your organization. These include routers, switches, wireless access points, firewalls, and any other device that supports SNMP. The…

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