Notes on SMNP Notes on SMNP Networks have a bad habit of failing. This makes network management an extremely important task. While the system may continue to operate despite failures, performance can suffer.
Most networks are heterogeneous, composed of equipment from many different vendors.
A network management system has to be standardized and supported by a wide variety of equipment to be useful. N etwork M anagement P rotocol is a system for communicating with network components that is useful in locating network problems. SNMP is an application layer protocol. SNMP data travels the network just like any other user data. The Internet Protocol does not have any network management functionality built into it.