NetWareUNIX WindowsOS/2MacintoshAXIS 5600 User’s Manual Section 9: Management & Configuration 123Using SNMPYou can use SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) forremotely monitoring and configuring of the AXIS 5600. 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 5600 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 5600 supports all relevant parts of MIB-II and of the hostresources MIB. The AXIS 5600 also includes a private enterprise MIB,the AXIS MIB.
