Advanced ManagementII - 5Section II - Advanced Management FeaturesOKI OkiLAN 6010e User’s GuideChapter 1: SNMPOverviewSimple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) pro-vides network administrators with the ability to com-municate management functions between an SNMPmanager and an SNMP agent. An SNMP manager is auser program the network administrator can use tomanage SNMP agents. The manager can retrieve Getinformation from the agent or alter Set information onthe agent. An agent can also send an unsolicited mes-sage Trap to a manager when it encounters an unusualcondition.The OkiLAN 6010e is a fully functional SNMP agentand supports any standard SNMP management plat-form, including:• HP OpenView• Novell NMS• Sun SunNet Manager• IBM NetViewPrivate MIBOkiLAN 6010e SNMP support has been enhanced witha private MIB. It is accessible via SNMP over TCP/IPand IPX. This private MIB contains over 150 configura-tion and status variables for the network protocols,printer ports, network interface printer settings, and theoverall OkiLAN 6010e status. Printer status traps suchas on-line, off-line, detached printer and printer errorare also provided.
