Snmp: Versions 1 & 2 Simple Network Management Protocol Theory and Practice

Rating:
Summary: Neither a strong reference nor a good tutorial.
Review: Not enough explanation to be a good tutorial, and not well organized as a reference.

Rating:
Summary: Makes Simple Network Management very difficult.
Review: The text has too much of description in ASN. The book is not very clear about what it covers. I think the authors should make it clear, whether they are talking about OSI-SNMP or TCP/IP-SNMP.

Rating:
Summary: Extremely Bad (Format and Content)
Review: This is the first time I submit a comment. That is how bad the book is (and I only got to chapter 3). I expected to see information beyond what's in the RTCs such as examples and explanation.

There are many instances where the authors list a number of items giving the impression that the following sections will explain each item in detail, and they only have one section explaining the first item and skip the rest.

Diagrams also seem to be thrown in randomly as there is no associated text explaining what's being presented.

Overall, a bad book due to any combination of these:

(1) lack of understanding of the material and/or (2) lack in the capability to convey the knowledge