The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a necessary tool for every network administrator. You can easily configure it with just a few commands. SNMP is still the most popular way to monitor ...

I have several Windows Server 2008 64-bit VMs that I monitor with MRTG. All of them are working except one - it doesn't respond to anything on port 161. Funny thing, initially it worked, and then ...

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SNMP-based DDoS attacks spoofing Google’s public recursive DNS server have been spotted by the SANS Internet Storm Center. Update: The SANS Internet Storm Center this afternoon reported SNMP scans ...

Nagios has been around since 2002 and is considered stable software. It is in use by the likes of American Public Media, JP Morgan Chase and Yahoo, just to name a few. It is an enterprise-level ...

I'd like to have the routers send SNMP traps for the same incidents that "show log" will reveal "Oct 30 19:11:31.866: %OSPF-5-ADJCHG: Process 200, Nbr 192.168.100.2 on Vlan85 from FULL to DOWN, ...

When it comes to monitoring your network, and devices on your network, the 800-pound protocol gorilla is Simple Network Management Protocol, or SNMP. The name is, in my opinion, a passel of lies—the ...

Chances are you’ve heard about network protocol in the past but likely have little idea of what it is all about. For sure right now, we can say that there are different types of network protocols ...