Hi everyone.
Welcome to Pluralsight.
My name is Greg Dickinson, and welcome to my course Protocol Deep Dive: SNMP.
I'm a network engineer at a bank in my home state of Alabama, roll tide.
I've been playing with computers longer than I'd really like to admit.
I've always had a love of technology and a passion to see
this technology efficiently applied to business processes
to make everyone's job easier.
This course is designed to help you understand one of the
protocols that are fundamental to monitoring and managing
modern computer networks.
While it can be simple to set up,
to properly understand the true strength of SNMP
takes some thought and proper design.
Some of the major topics that we'll cover include
understanding the functions of SNMP,
the differences between the three versions of SNMP,
and which ones are most commonly used in modern networks,
configuring the SNMP agents on Windows, Linux,
and Cisco platforms,
and configuring a network management system and using it to gather data.
By the end of this course,
you'll have an understanding of how the SNMP protocol works and the types of
data you can collect with modern network management systems.
Before beginning the course,
you really only need to be familiar with basic networking concepts such as IP
addressing and basic firewall configuration in Windows.
Understanding of topics like the Cisco CLI and the Linux shell is a plus for
the sections of the course that deal with those platforms.
I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn SNMP with the Protocol Deep Dive: SNMP course, at Pluralsight.