FAQ:General 01

What is it?

Various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including:

• An extensible agent
• An SNMP library
• tools to request or set information from SNMP agents
• tools to generate and handle SNMP traps
• a version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP
• a graphical Perl/Tk/SNMP based mib browser

This package is originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University SNMP implementation (version 2.1.2.1), but has developed significantly since then.

   FAQ:General

   This section covers issues related to the project as a whole.

1. What is it?
2. Where can I get it?
3. What documentation is available?
4. Are there binaries available?
5. What's the difference between UCD-SNMP and Net-SNMP?
6. What operating systems does it run on?
7. What happens if mine isn't listed?
8. Does it run on Windows?
9. How do I find out about new releases?
10. How can I find out what other people are doing?
11. How do I submit a patch or bug report?
12. Can I reuse the code in my commercial application?
13. What's the difference between SNMPv1, SNMPv2 and SNMPv3?
    What's the difference between SNMPv2 and SNMPv2c?
14. Which versions of SNMP are supported in this package?
15. Can I use SNMPv1 requests with an SNMPv2 MIB (or vice versa)?
16. How can I monitor my system with SNMP?
17. Where can I find more information about network management?
18. What ports does SNMP use?
19. Is Net-SNMP thread safe?

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• When I run the snmpget tutorial, I get a timeout message. How do I fix this?
• When I run the snmpget tutorial I get a bunch of cannot find module errors. How do I fix this?
• ...
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Other FAQ Sections

The other sections are:

   FAQ:General
   FAQ:Applications
   FAQ:Perl
   FAQ:MIBs
   FAQ:Agent
   FAQ:Compiling
   FAQ:Coding
   FAQ:Misc