SNMP V1/2 is as easy as telling the device your desired community string and whether you want it to be read only (recommended for your use) or read-write (for configuring the device via SNMP, this can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adam is the author of the AdamtheAutomator.com blog, and works as a Microsoft systems administrator specializing in the Microsoft System Center suite and PowerShell automation. SNMPv1, the original ...

Attackers are increasingly abusing devices configured to publicly respond to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) requests over the Internet to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks. This ...

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday advised users of its Windows server and client operating systems to disable the SNMP service if it is running because of a buffer overrun vulnerability in the ...

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 ...

The NimBUS for network monitoring solution provides an SNMP gateway that will transform NimBUS alarm messages to SNMP trap messages that are readable by any SNMP based event manager. Predefined SNMP ...