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Summary: MIBS under the Microscope
Review: I highly recommend this book for anyone who needs to understand the structure of the SNMP Management Information Base. This book takes them apart and puts them back together. With often irreverant comments, the information presented will help those who work with mibs and agents on a daily basis to fully comprehend the purpose and structures.
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Summary: Does exactly what the title says
Review: I read the book, I wrote some MIBs, they worked. I'm happy, my boss is happy, my customers are happy.What more can I say?
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Summary: MIB designer's Paradise
Review: I recomend reading this book before you start designing a MIB.This book really helped me a lot to understand , design MIB. The book also comes with a MIB parser and a application which converts MIBs to HTML document.
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Summary: You better know SNMP before you read this book.
Review: I've been working with networks for almost a year now, a relative new comer to the field. However, I'm a degreed engineer from a pretty good school, and I've worked as an engineer for over six years. This book is for people who have worked with SNMP extensively for a number of years. This is definitely not an intro book, nor is it for anybody who just wants to gain a basic understanding of SNMP. I was lost after the second chapter.
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Summary: A good reference manual
Review: Let's not kid ourselves, SNMP MIBs are messy and needlessly confusing. Most of this confusion stems from the fact that there are many ways to do the same thing. This book helps you identify the various ways of doing something so that you can make informed decisions.
I find this book to be a well organized reference about MIB design and SNMP at the protocol level. It assumes the reader already has some understanding of the topic.
If you are new to MIB design, I suggest that you check the web first to get a basic understanding. Note that this book is not geared toward SNMP network administration.
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Summary: Probably the best Book for Understanding and Designing MIBs
Review: The book "Understanding SNMP MIBs" introduces the reader to the Management Information Base (the MIB) used to describe data managed through the SNMP protocol. The book covers the basic ideas behind SNMP and the operations supported by SNMP, but the major part of the text really focuses on the syntax and the structure of the information base and on defining and maintaining MIBs. The book does a wonderful job in covering all the related aspects around MIBs. It gives a very good introduction to SNMP (yes, it is brief, but it is much easier to read than some of the texts that focus on SNMP) it gives a detailed description of the MIB syntax and on how to define, build and maintain MIBs. The task of designing and implementing a MIB is illustrated from different points of views. In one chapter, the practical considerations in building MIBs are laid out, e.g. v1 vs. v2, module naming and module layout, in another chapter, the authors lead the readers through the definition process of the MIBs for a hypothetical company with a small product. I addition an analysis of some standard MIBs and the techniques applied in these is included. The whole book is written very well and is in fact very understandable and clear. A lot of critical points in SNMP and the structure of MIBs are explained and commented (although some of the comments are not really constructive). There are only a few minor points that I did not like about this text. a) Some of the illustrations are just plain horrible, b) the chapter ordering is a little weird: SNMP intro, MIB syntax, SNMP operations, MIB design, MIB browser, MIB design example (but maybe that's just me?) and c) where is the 2nd edition including v3? Overall, this is a very helpful book. The material is very well presented and really helps to understand SNMP MIBs.
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Summary: Probably the best Book for Understanding and Designing MIBs
Review: The book "Understanding SNMP MIBs" introduces the reader to the Management Information Base (the MIB) used to describe data managed through the SNMP protocol. The book covers the basic ideas behind SNMP and the operations supported by SNMP, but the major part of the text really focuses on the syntax and the structure of the information base and on defining and maintaining MIBs. The book does a wonderful job in covering all the related aspects around MIBs. It gives a very good introduction to SNMP (yes, it is brief, but it is much easier to read than some of the texts that focus on SNMP) it gives a detailed description of the MIB syntax and on how to define, build and maintain MIBs. The task of designing and implementing a MIB is illustrated from different points of views. In one chapter, the practical considerations in building MIBs are laid out, e.g. v1 vs. v2, module naming and module layout, in another chapter, the authors lead the readers through the definition process of the MIBs for a hypothetical company with a small product. I addition an analysis of some standard MIBs and the techniques applied in these is included. The whole book is written very well and is in fact very understandable and clear. A lot of critical points in SNMP and the structure of MIBs are explained and commented (although some of the comments are not really constructive). There are only a few minor points that I did not like about this text. a) Some of the illustrations are just plain horrible, b) the chapter ordering is a little weird: SNMP intro, MIB syntax, SNMP operations, MIB design, MIB browser, MIB design example (but maybe that's just me?) and c) where is the 2nd edition including v3? Overall, this is a very helpful book. The material is very well presented and really helps to understand SNMP MIBs.
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Summary: outstanding Snmp book for designers
Review: The book provides excellent information about what a MIB is (and what is not), how objects are defined and identified, how C structures can be translated into a Mib. The "opinions" boxes are extremely helpful to see another point of view on an issue, which many times clarifies it (unlike all those books that just present "facts" like they were edicts that fell from the sky). The best is that you are often forced to stop and meditate: how do we model "objects"? how do we define "indexes" to "tables"? the book provides insight into the hard choices Snmp designers are confronted with. The discussion in Chapter 7 about "Identity" is apparently simple... and simply memorable. Unlike the books that just cut, paste and rephrase from the standards, this is a book from designers to designers (as M.T. Rose writes colorfully in the introduction: "a book from the field officers in the SNMP cavalry"). I have been glad to have it on my desk since I started working on Snmp. [Beware: V3 is not treated; so I complemented it with David Zeltserman's "A practical guide to Snmp V3"].
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Summary: WARNING! Limited version of MIB compiler software
Review: The SMICng MIB compiler version on the CD is the "book" version and is very limited in its options. Unfortunately the documentation in the book shows all the options for the unlimited "Pro" ($490) version! I was disappointed because the MIB compiler was the main reason I purchased the book!
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Summary: excellent guide & reference for experienced SNMP developers
Review: This book is for experienced SNMP developers but could be very useful even for a novice willing to spend some time to understand SNMP in-depth. This is the best SNMP book I've read and it is an outstanding addition to SNMP RFCS, not just a copy from RFCs as some other SNMP books.
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