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Book:		Essential SNMP
Subject:		Essential SNMP Review
Date:		2001-10-29 08:40:09
From:		Jim Kerick

Rating: I find that the SNMP guide is a useful overall guide to SNMP and major products like HPOV and the NET-SNMP agent. It is written for the system admin who needs to install and maintain SNMP, not the developer of MIBs. Compared to other books that have the word practical in the title, Essential SNMP does not need a college lecture to explain itself. Essential SNMP bills itself as a guide for deploying and running for someone new to SNMP, so it is not a reference for obsucure parts of SNMP design or history. It is a solid book that tells you how to get a SNMP implementation off the ground. The O'Reilly book enabled me to get stuff up and configured. Now that I have a stable environment and have good foundation of understanding I am using other books that discuss MIB creation and Vendor documents to enhance and expand the SNMP environment. O'Reilly states the audience is for system and network admins that need to control their network, and have little or no experience with SNMP or SNMP applications. I believe it achieves it goals.