[REBOL] Re: Additional network protocols...
From: fprowse:uu at: 24-Oct-2001 8:23
OK - SNMP (the Simple Network Management Protocol) is a basic protocol
consisting of 5 commands that query Agents (or in common terms, Routers,
Servers etc)
Vendors implementing snmp on their devices are required to comply (as a
minium with RFC1157) Vendors are free to extend the capabilities of thier
devices through the use of Enterprise extensions (MIB'S)
OK....this all sounds rather complicated. But what it allows us to do is
query a network device (say a router, or routers) using a simple
command - The router will then return the requested output. (Usually an
integer value)
A basic example of this would be to ask how much traffic is passing
through a given interface. If you do this often enough you can manipulate
the data through graphs etc....(rebol view anyone?)
There are many other examples of this, I could go on for hours! (esp after
recently giving a presentation on this topic)
I can see real benifit here for Rebol to support current SNMP (and SNMP
v3)
Any comment from the Rebol people here...?
Cheers
Francois
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jason Cunliffe wrote:
