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Prestige 334W User’s Guide
14-8 Remote Management Screens
SNMP is only available if TCP/IP is configured.
Figure 14-5 SNMP Management Model
An SNMP managed network consists of two main types of component: agents and a manager.
An agent is a management software module that resides in a managed device (the Prestige). An agent
translates the local management information from the managed device into a form compatible with SNMP.
The manager is the console through which network administrators perform network management functions. It
executes applications that control and monitor managed devices.
The managed devices contain object variables/managed objects that define each piece of information to be
collected about a device. Examples of variables include such as number of packets received, node port status
etc. A Management Information Base (MIB) is a collection of managed objects. SNMP allows a manager and
agents to communicate for the purpose of accessing these objects.