SNMP Traps: The 90's Want Their Monitoring Technology Back
How do you monitor your network? There are a myriad of technologies and tools out there, each providing different benefits and challenges. Today we are going to focus on one specific area, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Traps. That’s right, we are going narrow here, not just focusing on SNMP but on one specific portion of the protocol: namely the ability of devices that support SNMP to send alert information to collectors.