What is SNMP and How to Use it in IT Monitoring (With Examples)

If you want to understand the basics of SNMP or need to configure monitoring using it, this video is made to help you with that, we will discuss What is SNMP and how to use it for monitoring using monitoring tools. In this demo, we are using PRTG Network Monitor.

Below are the topics:
00:14 What is SNMP
00:43 SNMP Versions
01:24 How does SNMP get the details from the monitored devices
03:05 What is OID and MIB
03:46 How to Read a MIB File
05:27 Start of Demo
06:04 How to add SNMP Single OID
09:06 How to add SNMP Table OID
13:49 How we got the MIB file used in the demo
15:49 Ending

If you don’t know the importance of IT performance monitoring, check my blog post below:

IT Environment’s Performance Monitoring

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In the video I’m using PRTG MIB Browser tool (also called PRTG MIB Importer): https://www.paessler.com/mib-browser

Monitoring tool user is PRTG Network Monitor: https://www.paessler.com/prtg

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by Fingerprint in IT

simple network management protocol