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| List six network management tasks? |
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Failure of an interface card
Host monitoring
Monitoring traffic
Detecting rapid changes in routing tables
Monitoring for SLAs
Intrusion detection |
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| What three issues does SNMP attempt to address? |
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Definition
What / how to monitor
What info is exchanged
How is the info exchanged |
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| How would an ideal management tool check status? |
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| How would alarms be triggered in ideal management tool ? |
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| What should an ideal management tool perform? |
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Hardware failure
Host monitoring
Traffic monitoring
Routing monitoring
SLA monitoring
Intrusion detection |
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| What three issues does RFC 3410 describe relating to SNMP? |
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Definition
What / how to monitor
What information is exchanged
How information is exchanged |
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| What should SNMP monitor? |
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Definition
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| Run a service on the monitored device |
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| When the SNMP service is running on a monitored device, what should it (be able) to do |
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Access status and performance of the device
Communicate with another remote entity |
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Definition
Intrusive monitoring (no probes sent)
Non-intrusive monitoring (nothing is captured / interpreted) |
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| What is the master agent? |
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Definition
| Something installed on each monitored / managed device which collects info about the device |
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| What is the managing entity? |
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Definition
| Something installed on the monitoring / management device to poll to the master agent and update info on monitored devices |
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| What happens to the data in SNMP? |
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Definition
| Collected and stored on the master agent, organised and collected by the managing entity |
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| What protocol is used for SNMP? |
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Definition
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| What does each managed device consist of? |
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Definition
| One or more managed objects |
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| What does each managed object have? |
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Definition
| A management information base (MIB) |
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Term
| How does SNMP organise / exchange information |
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Definition
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| Vendors can add their own branches (objects) to the MIB tree |
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Definition
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| What structure does MIB have? |
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| What three types of SNMP messages are there? |
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| What does TRAP message mean / do? |
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Definition
| Allows managed device to issue alarms to management station |
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| What protocol does SNMP run on? |
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Definition
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| Why does SNMP run on UDP/ |
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Definition
| Network friend and no overheads |
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Term
| What port does SNMP run on (for read/write and traps) |
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Definition
161 (read/write)
162 (traps) |
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Term
| What sec is on v1 / v2 of SNMP? |
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Definition
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Encrypted auth
Allowed enabled setPDUFunctionality (whatever that is) |
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Term
| What is OSKAAAAAAAAAAAAAs surname!!! |
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Definition
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Lots of raw data
Values for SNMP variables - traffic, cpu, memory, hdd etc |
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| What does SNMP not provide |
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Definition
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| as a result of SNmP becoming large over time and making data retrieval inefficient. What solution is there? |
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Definition
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| how does round robin database work? |
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Definition
| establish a relevant time period, remove data beyond time period and aggregate older data so it occupies less time |
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Term
| When you're blowing into a bottle top, does the note get higher or lower as the size of the top increases? |
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Definition
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Term
| Imagine you are doing education studies. You are asked to monitor a network by your supervisor. What do you do? |
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Definition
| Get someone who did a real degree to do it for you, but take all the credit and relay some bullshit about how stressful teaching is(nt) |
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