Just a quick question, I am working through a question on SNMP and am not too sure whether the computer with the SNMP management software queries the SNMP devices for any traps or if the device itself volunteers the information on a need to know basis to the Management machine. It may be splitting hairs, but this is exactly the type of discrepency that MS will use to catch you out.

Found a good article on SNMP on the cisco site, but still needs some clearing up. Probably have missed the part in this doc that they tell you.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td...to_doc/snmp.htm

Cheers, Jonoplunk

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Not entirely familiar with SNMP, but the document you linked says the server side does the reads and writes from/to the managed devices, whereas the traps are performed by the managed devices to notify the server of an event.

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I am not an expert, but my understanding is that you specify a community name for your devices and monitors. When key events occur the system that the event occurs upon sends an SNMP Trap to the community (think of an alert message). The monitoring software on the same community name will read this information and process it.

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Thanks guys, that seems to make sense. In other words the offending device screams its head off and the Management machine reacts to it

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