The Simple Network Management Protocol is so old, a byte isn’t necessarily eight bits. It is baroque and arcane. And it’s everywhere.

SNMP is one of those system management skills that people acquire by experience, stumbling through one horrid implementation after another and counting their knowledge by their scars. It’s highly useful, once you understand it.

This talk provides an overview of modern SNMP, as well as some historical tidbits.

• What makes SNMP simple
• When to use SNMP, and when not to
• How to use SNMP securely
• Objects, MIBs, and OIDs
• Using the net-snmp management toolkit
• SNMPv3 efficient queries *debugging *proxies, SMUX, and AgentX
• View-based Access Control Model (VACM)
• Extending the net-snmp agent
• Logging, traps, and notifications

If time permits, I’ll demonstrate how I maintain my list of books in SNMP.

Michael W Lucas MWL has written a whole stack of books. Many of them are on BSD. He has a web page at https://mwl.io