First hour will be a technical review of SNMP: SNMP: Simple
Network Management Protocol is the de facto standard for
managing devices on IP networks: routers, switches, servers,
workstations, printers, modem and so on. 1. The protocol *
Managers and Agents * SNMP Operations * Packet structure 2.
Linux tools: net-snmp and snmpd. 3. Usage example: network
discovery Second hour will be about the OpenNMS project:
functionality, architecture and technology. From the OpenNMS
site: What Is OpenNMS? OpenNMS is an enterprise-grade network
management platform developed using the open source model. (GPL)
What does OpenNMS do? OpenNMS has three main functions: service
level monitoring, performance measurement, and event management.
Service level monitoring means that OpenNMS will periodically
test various services provided by your network to see that they
are active and responding in a proper manner. If they are not,
events are generated that can alert the IT staff of the problem,
and reports can be generated to see how