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What Is It?

Various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including:

Please see our project development pages as well.

Note:  Some links in this document are external to this Windows help file.

History

This package was originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University and Univerisity of California at Davis SNMP implementations, but has been greatly enhanced, ported, fixed, made easier to use and barely resembles the original package anymore.

Distribution

Be sure and check out the other related software project links as well.

Documentation

Introduction/Overview

Manual Pages

A full list of manual pages can be found in the various sections listed in the table of contents; this is merely a summary of the most important.

Mailing Lists

There is one announcement mailing list: There are two main discussion lists:

Please do NOT post messages to both lists. This just increases the support load, annoys the developers and makes it less likely that your query will be answered. If in doubt. post to the net-snmp-users list. None of the other project mailing lists are suitable for general posting - please regard these as "read-only" lists.

See sourceforge.net's mailing list instructions for further details, and to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to individual lists.
Note that messages for non-subscribers will be held for approval before appearing on the list. This is purely intended to stem the recent flood of spam email, and is not meant to deter requests for assistance or information.

Also, stop by the #net-snmp IRC channel on the freenode.net IRC servers to gather, mingle, and chat. At least 3 of the core developers are known to hang out there regularily.

Contacting the Authors and Submitting Bug Reports

There are many authors from around the net working on the project. To report a bug, see the net-snmp bugs database. For support, please mail a note to our "users discussion mailing list" at net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net.

Helping Out!

Want to help? There are many projects that need to be tackled to make this software better. To help us out, join the net-snmp-coders mailing list, announce what you're wanting to work on (to make sure its not being done and won't conflict with someone elses work) and start writing! Submit your ideas, questions, patches etc. to the net-snmp-coders list as you come up with them.

Contributions to the Net-SNMP source code in any form are greatly appreciated. We expect the parties providing such contributions to have the right to contribute them to the Net-SNMP project or that the parties that do have the right have directed the person submitting the contribution to do so. In addition, all contributors need to be aware that if the contribution is accepted and incorporated into the Net-SNMP project, it will be redistributed under the terms of the license agreement used for the entire body of work that comprises the Net-SNMP project (see the COPYING file for details; in summary BSD-like not GPL or LGPL). If this license agreement ever changes the contribution will continue to be released under any new licenses as well. Thank you, in advance, for your gracious contributions.

Related Software and Information

Software

Other sources of information about SNMP in general

IETF and SNMP protocol standards related information