Device Discover: A Component for Network Management System using Simple Network Management Protocol

Virtually all existing networked system management tools use a Manager/Agent paradigm. That is, distributed agents are deployed on managed devices to collect local information and report it back to some management unit. Even those that use standard protocols such as SNMP fall into this model. Using standard protocol has the advantage of interoperability among devices from different vendors. However, it may not be able to provide customized information that is of interest to satisfy specific management needs. In this dissertation work, different approaches are used to collect information regarding the devices attached to a Local Area Network. An SNMP aware application is being developed that will manage the discovery procedure and will be used as data collector.

Authors:

• Garima Gupta
• Daya Gupta

Keywords:

• ICMP Scanner
• Network Discovery
• NetworkManagement
• SNMP Scanner.

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