This tutorial begins with an explanation of SNMP counters, where they are found, and how to obtain them efficiently for currently deployed technologies. The session then describes how standard IETF MIBs are organized, points out what useful data they contain, and how they fit together to provide a view of an operational network at layers 1, 2, and 3.

In particular, this introduction will review the following technologies:

About the Presenters

Michael MacFaden, a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, has been a software engineer for the past 12 years, working in the field of applications and network management. At IBM, he helped to build out the internal 9/8 network to distribute marketing data to field personnel on top of the existing SNA VNET network. At Premisys Communications, he co-designed the UNIX-based element management system using IETF protocols, making the IMACS 800 channel bank completely telnet/snmp manageable. At Kalpana/Cisco systems, he contributed to CiscoView, Cisco Resource Manager, and Vlan Manager as well as contributed a modified SNMP++ library to the Adaptive Communications Environment (ACE) project of UC Irvine & Washington University in St Louis. At Riverstone Networks, he is responsible for overall implementation of device management as well as open source network management at http://www.nmops.org.

Chris Elliott, CCIE #2013 and author of "Performance and Fault Management," has 25 years experience in the networking industry, starting with the ARPANET. He currently works for Cisco Systems as an escalation engineer for the Cisco Technical Assistance Center. For the last nine years he has concentrated on network management, including designing and managing a large network for SAS Institute, Inc.; writing network management applications, including a distributed SNMP polling system; supporting users of Network Management Applications; and assisting in the design of IETF standards for network management.