A SNMP Group Polling for the Management Traffic

초록

SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol) could have the overhead of network, if the number of the agent system which is managed by the collection of network management information and the reply traffic for it. In this paper, the polling method used in SNMP is improved, and Group Polling method is proposed. This can reduce the overhead of network, on case that the agent system is to be increased. The proposed method collects information by grouping agent systems, and have smaller reply latency time and communication overhead than the previous method. So if the number of agent system or the polling count is numerous, the proposed method is more efficient. As the result of the prototype test, the increasement of agent system can have small variation of traffic and transmission delay time.