NetWareUNIX WindowsOS/2MacintoshSection 9: Management & Configuration AXIS 1620 User’s Manual126Using SNMPYou can use SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) forremotely monitoring and configuring of the AXIS 1620. All majorfunctions for print servers are supported.General Information SNMP refers to a set of standards for network management, includinga protocol, a database structure specification, and a set of data objects.The AXIS 1620 SNMP implementation runs in TCP/IP andNetWare (IPX) networks.The management is handled by NMS (Network Management System)software running on a host on your network. The NMS softwarecommunicates with network devices by the means of messages, whichare references to one or more objects.A message can be a question or an instruction to a device, or an alarmtriggered by a specific event in a device. Objects are contained in databases called MIBs (Management Information Base), where MIB-II is astandard database.The AXIS 1620 supports all relevant parts of MIB-II and of the hostresources MIB. The AXIS 1620 also includes a private enterprise MIB,the AXIS MIB.
