SNMP Support for Novell eDirectory

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the standard operations and maintenance protocol for the Internet for exchanging management information between the management console applications and managed devices. Management console application are application such as HP* Openview, Novell^® NMS, IBM* NetView, or Sun* Net Manager. The managed devices includes hosts, routers, bridges, and hubs and also network applications like Novell eDirectory^TM.

This section describes SNMP services for Novell eDirectory 8.7.3. It contains the following topics:

• Definitions and Terminology for SNMP
• Understanding SNMP Services
• eDirectory and SNMP
• Installing and Configuring SNMP Services for eDirectory
• Monitoring eDirectory Using SNMP
• Troubleshooting