The SNMP service running under Windows NT implements SNMP version 1 and provides an SNMP agent that allows remote, centralized SNMP management of:
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Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) 4.0-compliant peripheral devices attached to a Windows NT-based computer are also manageable by using the Windows NT-based SNMP service. If the device is to be managed by using SNMP, the device vendor must provide a device .inf file that can be registered in the Windows NT-based Registry.
The Windows NT-based SNMP agent is implemented as a service and can be installed on Windows NT-based computers that use the TCP/IP and IPX protocols. The TCP/IP protocol must be installed before installing SNMP. For more information about installing SNMP, see TCP/IP Help.
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You must install TCP/IP to be able to install the SNMP service, even if IPX is installed as the main network protocol.
The SNMP service is implemented as a Windows 32-bit service by using Windows Sockets over both TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. The additional Microsoft MIBs for DHCP, WINS, and the Internet Information Server, extend SNMP management to these Windows NT-based services. The agent programs that implement these additional MIBs are referred to as extension-agents. The extension-agent programs work with the master Windows NT-based agent program. These Windows NT-based extension-agents are implemented as Windows 32-bit dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).
The following diagram shows a simple interaction between an SNMP manager computer and a Windows NT-based computer with an SNMP agent program.
Figure 11.3 SNMP Manager and SNMP Agent Interaction