“The world of network/system management starts and ends today with SNMP “.. is that an understatement.. absolutely not … at least not to the extent of people who look for monitoring most of the network related parameters and te basic hardware related monitoring of servers(blame the manufactures who don't expose everything to SNMP ) .. Now , lets look at SNMP in detail..
SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol is based on UDP (transmits information as packets rather than as a continuous flow of information as in TCP ) . Its used in devices which are IP addressable to detect events which require attention from administrators . Its defined by the IETF and forms a part of the IP suite . Going deeper into it, it consists of an application layer protocol, a database schema and a set of data objects.