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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 12:16:39 MDT
From: Rob Slade <roberts@decus.ca>
Subject: Book Review: "Total SNMP" by Harnedy
BKTLSNMP.RVW 940420
CBM Books
101 Witmer Road
Horsham, PA 19044
215-957-4265 215-957-4287
Fax: 215-957-1050
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"Total SNMP", Harnedy, 1994, 1-878956-33-7, U$45.00
For all the people who talk very knowledgeably about RISC these days,
few even know what the acronym means, much less the concepts behind
it. The Reduced Instruction Set Computer is founded upon the
principle that developers, in real life, will never be either
comfortable or fully familiar with enormously complex systems, and
will, therefore, never utilize those systems to full advantage. In
practice, RISC processors attempt to apply the Pareto principle, that
80 percent of the result comes from 20 percent of the resources, to
code. Find those operations which are really used in processing, and
then make sure your chip performs them exceedingly well.
By and large, this is the idea behind the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP). First outlined in 1988 as a short-term stop-gap
measure, it saw initial implementations in 1989. In spite of
established products already on the market, and an international
standard in the wings, it has become a major factor in network
development. This growth is partly due to the elegance of the
concept, partly due to the ties with TCP/IP, and, possibly largely,
due to the fact that it works.
Simple, of course, is hardly the term that most people would use to
describe network management. As this book shows, five simple and
basic operations can result in a total complexity exceeding six
hundred pages. Harnedy has brought together a wealth of resources
discussing the basics of network management, the background to SNMP,
the information structure and base, the protocol, practice and tools.
The largest single item is actually one of the appendices which gives
details of the Management Information Base Groups.
For those developing network management systems, this is a necessary reference.