SNMP

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a standard device management protocol. It is available on practically any device (for example, printers, routers, switches, and so on). It offers a powerful mechanism for monitoring and configuring devices. StatViewer can monitor the device specific to statistics.

To access the device specific information, the SNMP protocol uses Management Information Base (Mib).

A Mib is a collection of information that is organized hierarchically. The elements of this hierarchical tree are called managed objects or Mib objects. Managed objects are made up of one or more object instances, which are essentially variables.

Different types of devices can publish different types of managed objects and define different branches of the Mib tree.

The integration of the SNMP protocol into StatViewer provides users with the ability to monitor the device status during a test.

This section describes the configuration of the SNMP variables, devices, and database.

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