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PRESENTATIONS IN NETWORK MANAGEMENT
SNMP: Simple Network
Management Protocol
Saad Haj Bakry, PhD, CEng, FIEE
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
Objectives / Contents
 SNMP
Principles
 SNMP
Information Representation
 SNMP Operation
 Remarks
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
SNMP Principles
Introduction
 Components
 Multi-Vendor Principles
 Information Flow
 Framework
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
Introduction to SNMP
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For TCP/IP Networks:
– Internet / Extranet /Intranet
(multi-vendor distributed networks)
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First issued in 1989
– Developed by IEFT (Internet Research Task Force)
Subsidiary of IAB (Internet Architecture Board)
– Supported by 70 vendors
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SNMPv3: 1998
Widely implemented / with (+)
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
SNMP Components
A Computer Running Management Software (with GUI)
Host
SNMP
Management
Station
Agent
Managed
Node
Management
LAN
Managed
Node
Printer
Process
Bridge Agent
Router
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Agent
Agent
Managed
Node
Managed
Node
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SNMP Multi-Vendor Principles
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An Agent for Every Managed Node
– to run SNMP management process
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Variables (Objects)
– to describe the state of each device
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Information (Format) Specification
–
–
–
–
ANS-1: Standard Object Definition Language
SMI: Defines (SNMP) Data Structures
MIB: Data Structure for (Variables) Objects (Uses SMI)
BER: Basic Encoding Rule (transfer syntax)
(sequence of bytes for transmission)
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SNMP Information Flow
Managed
Node
Agent
Devices
Devices
Device
Using SMI (ASN-1)
Rules to Describe
Objects (Variables)
Object
Object
Object
Object
Object
Object
Variables to
describe
devices
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Using BER
Rules to Convert SMI
Data Structures into a
Sequence of Bytes
MIB
Data
Structure
Modules
Sequence
of Bytes
for
Transmission
SNMP Operations
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SNMP Framework
Protocol: “Manager-Agent” interaction
BER: Basic Encoding Rules
MIB: Management Information Base
(Database on managed devices)
SMI: Structure of Management Information
(Rules of describing management information)
Sub-Super-Set of: ASN-1:
Abstract Syntax Notation One
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
SNMP Information
Representation
SMI: Structure of Management
Information
 MIB: Management Information
Base
 BER: Basic Encoding Rules
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
SMI Data Types (Examples)
INTEGER
A 32-bit integer
BIT STRING
A string of 0 or more bits
Primitive
Data
OCTET STRING A string of 0 or more bytes
Types
NULL
A variable with no value
(place holder)
OBJECT
An officially defined data
IDENTIFIER
type (based on standards)
Additional  User Defined Types
Types
 Application Specific
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SMI: OBJECT IDENTIFIER (1/2)
Top
Level
ccitt (0)
iso (1)
iso-ccitt (2)
org (3)
dod (6)
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Internet (1)
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SMI: OBJECT IDENTIFIER (2/2)
Internet (1)
mgmt (2):
Standard
objects
registered by
IANA
(Internet
Assigned
Number
Authority)
mgmt (2)
mib-2 (1)
system (1)
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private (4)
security (5)
{Internet (1) 2 1} = {1 3 6 1 2 1}
interfaces (2)
ip (4)
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MIB: Definitions of Objects
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MIB is the definition
of “objects” that
should be provided
on each managed
node by the SNMP
“agent”.
An “object” is a
quantity or a field
that describes one
functional aspect of a
device.
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MIB objects are
arranged in “groups”
 Some groups relate
to “layer” of the
protocol stack.
 Other groups relate
to the system as a
“whole”
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
SNMP MIB Architecture
Simple Network Management Protocol
SNMP
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MIB
MIB
MIB
MIB
MIB
MIB
MIB
Application
TCP / UDP
ICMP
IP
ARP
Data Link
Physical
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Internet Protocols
User Interface: E-mail / http / ftp /…
Application
TCP / UDP
ICMP
IP
ARP
Transmission Control
Protocol
Internet Control
Message Protocol
Data Link
Physical
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User Data-gram
Protocol
Internet Protocol:
Addressing / Routing /
Congestion Control
Address Resolution
Protocol
Point-to-Point Control: LAN / WAN
Communication Interface: T-R / Links
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BER Structure
Every value transmitted consists of up to 4 fields:
 The identifier
identifies the item that follows
 The length
of the data field in bytes
 The data field
 End-of-contents
flag, if the data length is unknown
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BER Structure: The Identifier
2-bits
1-bit
5-bits
Tag / Type
Data Type
00 universal
01 application
10 context
specific
11 private
0
primitive
1
constructed
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Value
Identification Number
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BER Structure: Examples
00000010 00000001
00110001
Identifier
Length
Value
00000011
00000010
01111000
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Integer: 49
78
01111001
79
(Hex)
(Hex)
String “xy”
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
SNMP Operation
 Principles
 Manager-Agent
 Basic
Interaction
Messages
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SNMP Operation Principles
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Asynchronous (Request-Response) Operation
– to run SNMP management process
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SNMP Trap
– An “agent” notices a significant event and report the
event to its management stations
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Trap Directed Polling
– Polling at “long intervals”, with
– Acceleration on receipt of a trap.
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SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocols
SNMP Operation
Management
Station
Request PDU
Time
Response PDU
Agent
Managed
Node
PDU: Protocol Data Unit
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Basic Messages (1/2)
Requesting & Updating Variable Values
Originator: Manager / Receiver: Agent
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Get-request: Requests the value of one or more
variables
Get-next-request: Requests the value of the next
variable (Alphabetically through MIB)
Get-bulk-request: Requests large transfer (such
as Tables)
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Set-request: Updates one or more variables
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Basic Messages (2/2)
Originator: Agent
Receiver: Manager
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Response-PDU:
Response Message
Trap-PDU:
Trap Report
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Originator: Manager
Receiver: Another
Manager
 Inform-request
Local MIB Description
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Remarks
SNMP Given Review:

Principles

Information

Operation
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Future Work:
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Practical Systems
Using SNMP
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Practical Work
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Follow Up
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References
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Perkins, D.T., RMON: Remote Monitoring of
SNMP-Managed LANs, Prentice Hall PTR,
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1999
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Stalling, W., SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP: The
Practical Guide to Network Management
Standards, Addison-Wesley, Reading
Massachusetts, 1993
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“Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One
(ASN.1)”, ISO 8824, December 1987.
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