Practical Guide to Snmpv3 and Network Management

The one star rating I gave this book was because I bought this book based on all the people who said this was a great book for beginners to learn SNMP. ABSOLUTELY NOT! If you are a beginner, don't touch this book. Nowhere in the book does it show you how to actually USE SNMP practically. It does throw out some code here and there, but doesn't explain how or why the code works...let alone the most important part...how to implement it. It's just code by itself sitting there. This book may be a good reference for the experienced, but all it is is definitions of the different parts of SNMP. Big waste of time and money for a beginner.

Yes. It is an excellent book. Easy to read to understand the SNMPv3. However I think this book assumes that you have known quite a bit about SNMP in general, maybe that is why this book is titled v3 to emphasize that you should not read this book before you know what SNMP is. I have never found a good SNMP book for beginner though, so MAYBE the best way to learn SNMP is through RFCs first and then this book, and you also should buy SNMP MIBs book from Prentice Hall too, then you would have a clear understanding of SNMP.So, if you have had an enough exposure on SNMP, reading some of its RFC-s, this book is really useful and would help you understand better of what you have got. This book is very rich of information that is hidden or lies somewhere in the RFCs. The "codes" in this book are very useful for SNMP developers and administrator. If you look for a ready to copy-paste codes, you would not find here.

My name is Andy Levin, and I've been coding SNMP network management apps for the last 10 yrs. Dave Zeltserman is a friend of mine with whom I have worked on several large scale projects, and I helped review this book.The strength of this book lies in the fact that, clearly, it has been written by an engineer rather than by an academic. The stress is on the pragmatic use of the SNMP protocol and some of its more important MIBs to solve real network managment problems. First, the relevent concepts are presented in plain and easy to understand language. Next, clear diagrams and pseudocode algorithms are presented. This goes a long way in helping to explain, in particular, the very difficult to understand V3 concepts. To gain a full perspective of this accomplishment, I invite you to try and glean this information by reading the RFC's yourself.The weakness of this book in my opinion is, ironically, its title. Even if you have no intention of ever implementing V3, whether you are a newbie or experienced, this book contains a treasure trove of useful network management "how to" information. By emphasizing V3, the title de-emphasizes a great deal of this book's value, and that is unfortunate.Bottom line, I have found this book very worthwhile reading, and I'm willing to bet that anyone really interesting in doing useful network managment using SNMP will find it very worthwhile as well.

I had a very limited amount of knowledge on SNMP but this book took me from 0 knowledge to the point where I use this as a reference on the job. I'm a network engineer that is in charge of managing our LAN/WAN sites across the US using SNMP based management and I find this book to be indispensible.

Very useful book for learning and understanding the issues of SNMPv3. Lots of examples and pseudo-code for in-depth understanding. Takes less time to read than all the RFC's ;-).

I have been working on SNMP for a while, and have read a lot of SNMP books. This book is definitely the best one and it's written for both beginners and experienced engineers.

For somebody who wants to learn SNMPv3, the book offers a very simple, practical, and comprehensive approach. The book is especially helpful for people developing management applications and the SNMPv3 agent. Very useful in the real world. The book is well written and flows smoothly.

This book is the best SNMP book I've seen. It is extremely well organized and easy to read. It allowed me to quickly understand the fundamentals of SNMP v3 and the examples were very helpful in getting my job done. I highly recommend this book.