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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
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- BKTLSNMP.RVW 940420
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- CBM Books
- 101 Witmer Road
- Horsham, PA 19044
- 215-957-4265 215-957-4287
- Fax: 215-957-1050
- 76702.1565@compuserve.com
- books@propress.com
- "Total SNMP", Harnedy, 1994, 1-878956-33-7, U$45.00
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- For those developing network management systems, this is a necessary reference.
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