Windows NT SNMP

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Summary: Very well presented
Review: An excellent and practical look at the subject. Free of all the academic obfuscation which seems to usually accompany any SNMP liturature. A useful description of SNMP principles even if your're not programming under Windows NT, although obviously tailored for that market.

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Summary: This book is out of date
Review: I bought this book because of the title and I like O'Reilly books - concise and to the point.

This book is well written, concise and to the point. Part I contains an easy to read intro to SNMP. Part II contains some good info on the NT SNMP services and writing extention agents.

HOWEVER, I was disappointed on the coverage on the management API. Why? Because this API is obsolete. WinSNMP is now the standard, is available now and will come with NT 5.0. Now I am not a great fan of the WinSNMP API (you can just tell it is from Microsoft - badly designed API and more complicated than it needs to be). Thank goodness there is SNMP++ from HP - an SNMP C++ class library which is available for free on multiple platforms including NT. SNMP++ on NT actually uses WinSNMP.

I'm glad I did the research on SNMP packages for NT. If I had followed this book blindly I would have ended up with a management application that may not run when NT 5.0 comes out.

This would be a great book if it was updated with the WinSNMP and/or SNMP++ API.

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Summary: Great for a new-comer
Review: I was tasked with the job of developing an SNMP agent. I knew what the acronym stood for, and that was about it. The more I found out, the more I realized I had to do. I am still working on my agent development, but this book has gotten me well on my way. I have written an enterprise MIB, loaded it in the NT registry, and have a .dll which I modelled from this book... I still have a bit of work to do, but my MIB browser is recieving data that I programmed the windows NT SNMP service to send!! GREAT examples! the CD has been worth its weight in gold!

Rating:
Summary: Great for a new-comer
Review: I was tasked with the job of developing an SNMP agent. I knew what the acronym stood for, and that was about it. The more I found out, the more I realized I had to do. I am still working on my agent development, but this book has gotten me well on my way. I have written an enterprise MIB, loaded it in the NT registry, and have a .dll which I modelled from this book... I still have a bit of work to do, but my MIB browser is recieving data that I programmed the windows NT SNMP service to send!! GREAT examples! the CD has been worth its weight in gold!

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Summary: Look elsewhere
Review: This books is awful. The SNMP tools provided on the CDROM do not load up properly. The source code does not address anything new or clever that you can't get from the MSDN. Save yourself the trouble of returning it (look elsewhere).