Talk:Simple Network Management Protocol

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A list of SNMP Features would be useful

To help the newbie understand the 'why' of SNMP, it might be useful to start this article with a list of SNMP's features, such as

provides a way to ask a device on a network to describe itself.
information is organized by keyword and a corresponding value, for example you can ask a device for its 'sysLocation' and receive a response like 'Room 202A'.
There is a single family tree (hierarchy) of keywords for all of SNMP, which makes it easy to attach new branches to this tree as new needs arise.

Yes, but how does it work? What does it look like?

Is it a binary protocol? Or a text protocol? Or vendor specified? What does the packet/message/whatever look like? The description is very abstract - the article says that there are some types and variables and the ASN describes only the high level structure but not the implementation. The RFCs are great - as a reference for people who already know how it works. I went quickly throught the first listed and there is still only the high level structure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.95.97.145 (talk) 08:02, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Realizing this might be better in the text than here, but none the less: the protocol is encoded in BER which is a binary encoding. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hardaker (talk • contribs) 15:31, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Varbind missing

The term "Varbind" is redirected to this page. This page, however, does not contain the word "Varbind." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.169.32.3 (talk) 19:24, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction to SNMP, with an overview of RFCs

RFC 3410 provides a valuable introduction to the SNMP framework, and an overview of the many RFCs relating to it.

Inclusion of reference to xkcd as explanation for entropy

I question referecence 12, i.e. the reference to an xkcd comic, for demonstrating password entropy and perceived usability of long passwords. If it is deemed desirable that such an explanation be included, a reference to a research paper should be included. However, I do not think that explaining useful passwords is an important contribution to an article about SNMP, either. 131.159.20.131 (talk) 14:33, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Then be bold and revert it. BollyJeff || talk 14:46, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]