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Summary: Good SNMP Resource
Review: Having a little familiarity with SMNP, I looked forward to reading this book. I wasn't disappointed as it's well-written and filled with excellent information, which I've always found to be true of O'Reilly books. What I enjoyed a lot about this book was its general look first off at what SMNP is, why it's important, SMNP managers and agents, how it in most cases works better with UDP as opposed to TCP, etc.This book also describes the various types of Network Management Services architectures, the compatible hardware and network management software available, how to configure specific SMNP agents to monitor a specific device on a network, and how polling works, among other topics. As always with O'Reilly books, there's a wealth of reference information at the back of the book (for example, Using Input and Output Octects, command line tools, and a list of SNMP RFC's to refer to for more information). If you're a sys admin or anyone else desiring to learn more about SMNP, this book covers a lot of important SMNP information.
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Summary: Excellent book on SNMP and MIBs
Review: I baught this book few weeks ago to brush up my knowledge on SNMP, MIBs and such. And I realized that I learned a lot from this book. I would recommend this to everyone who wants to learn SNMP, MIBs and NMS in general. It even helped me use some third-party modules and programs mentioned in the book. Simply great work done by the authors.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: I came into this book knowing basically nothing about SNMP, and now I feel like an expert. The authors really know their stuff, and they convey it in a relaxed, personal manner that makes what could have been a dry subject entertaining as well as informative. Mauro and Schmidt have rich tech writing careers ahead of them. I couldn't recommend this book more strongly.
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Summary: Excellent SNMP intro for beginners
Review: I got HP OV NNM 7.5 started at work on a rush due to the need of increasing proactive response to the regular problems. This book, even based on old versions of the software I have in hand came up to be very straight to the point and was full of examples that aid me to realise how SNMP works. Even when you are a seasoned sysadmin/netadmin you happen to be off the road with topics of paramount importance such as SNMP. Don't be afraid of the age, this book is great for the price, and the authors made it big. Five stars...
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Summary: Essentially Useless
Review: I got more out of reading the RFCs than I did this book.
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Summary: Perfect for SNMP beginners and complicated networks
Review: I have been doing network/router/system administration for about 3 years, and I have never really had the time/opportunity/need to do SNMP. Our network grew to be very large very quickly (sites in africa, england, germany, canada, america) and it became neccesary to use SNMP to ease the administration somewhat. I first bought "A practical guide to SNMPv3 and Network Management" and could barely get past page 8 before I was totally lost. So I came back looking for "21 days" or "SNMP for dummies" book of which there are none. I found this book which recommends a good grasp of TCP/IP and that is about it. I have found this book to be the best book out there for someone with 0 to little experience with SNMP. It brought me all the way from ground 0 knowledge of SNMP to managing a network of about 100 routers with SNMP, including detecting DoS attacks, processor overload, interface changes, config changes etc. I highly recommend this to anyone who is looking for a practical SNMP managed network, beginner or advanced.
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Summary: Perfect for SNMP beginners and complicated networks
Review: I have been doing network/router/system administration for about 3 years, and I have never really had the time/opportunity/need to do SNMP. Our network grew to be very large very quickly (sites in africa, england, germany, canada, america) and it became neccesary to use SNMP to ease the administration somewhat. I first bought "A practical guide to SNMPv3 and Network Management" and could barely get past page 8 before I was totally lost. So I came back looking for "21 days" or "SNMP for dummies" book of which there are none. I found this book which recommends a good grasp of TCP/IP and that is about it. I have found this book to be the best book out there for someone with 0 to little experience with SNMP. It brought me all the way from ground 0 knowledge of SNMP to managing a network of about 100 routers with SNMP, including detecting DoS attacks, processor overload, interface changes, config changes etc. I highly recommend this to anyone who is looking for a practical SNMP managed network, beginner or advanced.
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Summary: Excellent SNMP reference
Review: I personally know Douglas Mauro and can attest to his expertise on SNMP. Having worked with Doug on an HP OpenView project, I was impressed by his knowledge of SNMP and his skills on OpenViews collections, filters and maps. SNMP is known by many and understood by few. Doug and Kevin have done an exceptional job of presenting this topic with vivid and useful examples. I have referred to this book many times in designing network management systems for clients. I highly recommend this book to people leaning about networking (aka CCNA) to full fledge network engineers
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Summary: Excellent !
Review: I was transferred to Manage a networking group in my company knowing barely the basics about SNMP. This book was a fantastic tool for me! I rely on it heavily. This book has enabled me to take monitoring to the next level. The only problem I seem to have with the book is keeping it on my desk. All the network analysts constantly are using it. Thanks Doug and Kevin for allowing me to excel to a higher level.....
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Summary: A very practical and useful SNMP book
Review: SNMP has been available for a long time, but it has always been difficult for me, as a busy UNIX admin, to take advantage of it to make my job easier. I was able to take advantage of the information in this book to start monitoring my equipment within a short time after I read it. What I liked best was the explanation of the free tools that are available to use. I didn't want to spend hours developing code, and the practical examples in this book gave me a big jump start. I highly recommend Essential SNMP to anyone who manages networked servers, devices, or services. The information in this book will make your job easier.
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