SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

This popular protocol used for network management is used for gathering information from, and configuring, networked devices such as printers, scanners, switches and routers on an IP network. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 provides this protocol software that will helps manage the status of applications with the use of third-party SNMP management tools as well. This protocol is widely adopted and used in all network and systems technology products meaning that it's often regarding as the de-facto standard. Another point is that SNMP is easy to implement into networks systems due to it's simple design. With this as well, there is a reduction in faults and the overall stability of the protocol is improved as well. On the downside certain versions of SNMP don't support authentication for certain components.

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