Patent ID: 9191268
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a network management station that exchanges data with network devices connected to the station via bus connections by the SNMP protocol, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an agent in each network device the state of the network device and making adjustments or triggering actions in the device by communicating with the network management station via SET and GET commands; conducting an error detection or an error notification between the network management station and the respective agent via the SNMP protocol, wherein conducting the error detection or error notification comprises receiving, by the network management station from a first agent of a first network device, a first SNMP response, generated in response to a first SET request; and carrying out a further data exchange between the network management station and the first agent of the first network device in addition to the data exchange provided according to the SNMP protocol in order to exchange through this further data exchange further data contents between the network management station and the first agent, the further data exchange comprising: