SNMP
The Simple Network Management Protocol is used by network
management applications for discovery, fault management, and performance
management. SNMP is an application-layer protocol that exchanges management
information between a network management application, such as the
IP Manager
, and one or
more managed network objects, called agents.SNMP, itself, does
not provide network management. What SNMP does provide is a framework,
or infrastructure, on which network management applications can be
built.