For our November “Staff Pick” Project of the Month, we selected net-snmp, tools and libraries relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (eg. routers), computer equipment and even devices like UPSs. Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement SNMP v1, SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6. This suite includes command-line applications to:
- Retrieve information from an SNMP-capable device
- Manipulate configuration information on an SNMP-capable device
- Convert between numerical and textual forms of MIB OIDs, and more.
It also has a graphical MIB browser, an extensible agent, a library for developing new SNMP applications, among many other great features.
Net-SNMP is available for many Unix and Unix-like operating systems, as well as for Microsoft Windows however, functionality may vary depending upon the operating system.