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"Total SNMP", Harnedy, 1994, 1-878956-33-7, U$45.00
 
For all the people who talk very knowledgeably about RISC these days, few even
know what the acronym means, much less the concepts behind it.  The Reduced
Instruction Set Computer is founded upon the principle that developers, in real
life, will never be either comfortable or fully familiar with enormously
complex systems, and will, therefore, never utilize those systems to full
advantage.  In practice, RISC processors attempt to apply the Pareto principle,
that 80 percent of the result comes from 20 percent of the resources, to code. 
Find those operations which are really used in processing, and then make sure
your chip performs them exceedingly well.
 
By and large, this is the idea behind the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP).  First outlined in 1988 as a short-term stop-gap measure, it saw
initial implementations in 1989.  In spite of established products already on
the market, and an international standard in the wings, it has become a major
factor in network development.  This growth is partly due to the elegance of
the concept, partly due to the ties with TCP/IP, and, possibly largely, due to
the fact that it works.
 
Simple, of course, is hardly the term that most people would use to describe
network management.  As this book shows, five simple and basic operations can
result in a total complexity exceeding six hundred pages.  Harnedy has brought
together a wealth of resources discussing the basics of network management, the
background to SNMP, the information structure and base, the protocol, practice
and tools.  The largest single item is actually one of the appendices which
gives details of the Management Information Base Groups.
 
For those developing network management systems, this is a necessary reference.
 
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