SNMP Stands for Simple Network Management Protocol.
It is an Application Layer protocol (Layer 7 protocol) defined by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) in RFC1157 for exchanging management information between network devices.SNMP provides a common language for network devices to switch management information with single as well as multivendor environments in a local area network (LAN) or wide area network(WAN).
There are three basic versions of SNMP.
SNMP v1
SNMP v2
SNMP v3
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| SNMP Flow between Manager and Devices with Agent configuration. |