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Choosing an SNMP Version

As explained in the preceding section, the IETF has some strong views about which version of SNMP should be deployed. In practice, however, although SNMPv1 is pretty well deprecated except in a relatively small number of older devices, SNMPv2 saw significant deployment and new devices are still being shipped that support only SNMPv2.

Therefore, although SNMPv3 is the ideal, management stations need to be able to support both SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 for the foreseeable future. All new devices should, however, be produced with support for SNMPv3, and it is reasonable to assume that management software will support SNMPv3 so that it is no longer necessary for a device to include SNMPv2 support.

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In this tutorial:

  1. IP Network Management
  2. Choosing to Manage your Network
  3. Choosing a Configuration Method
  4. Command Line Interfaces
  5. Graphical User Interfaces
  6. Standardized Data Representations and Access
  7. Making the Choice
  8. Management Information Base
  9. Representing Managed Objects
  10. Simple Network Management Protocol
  11. Requests, Responses, and Notifications
  12. SNMP Versions and Security
  13. Choosing an SNMP Version
  14. Extensible Markup Language
  15. Extensibility and Domains of Applicability
  16. XML Remote Procedure Calls
  17. Simple Object Access Protocol
  18. XML Applicability to Network Management
  19. Common Object Request Broker Architecture
  20. Interface Definition Language
  21. The Architecture
  22. CORBA Communications
  23. Choosing a Configuration Protocol
  24. Choosing to Collect Statistics
  25. Policy Control
  26. Choosing to Apply Policy
  27. Policy Information Base