SNMP Resources
SNMP, or Simple Network Management Protocol, is communication protocol designed to manage TCP/IP networks and devices. Developed by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and adopted as a TCP/IP-based management standard in 1989, SNMP has gained widespread acceptance since 1993. SNMP specifically refers to a set of standards for network management including a protocol, a database structure specification, and a set of data objects. The SNMP architecture defines a Client/Server relationship in which the Server (Network Management Station) executes management applications or directives which manage and control network elements. Clients (Network elements) are devices which have management agents responsible for performing the network management functions requested by the Server. The database, controlled by the SNMP agent, is referred to as the MIB (Management Information Base) and is a standard set of statistical and control values. The SNMP protocol is defined in RFC 1157
A good place to start reading more is: http://www.snmplink.org/
OpenSTA itself makes use of the Net-SNMP (formerly UCD-SNMP) open source SNMP toolkit and library
ToDo: add useful SNMP resources here, specifically if they are especially relevent to Web/load testing
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