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3.1. Goals of the Architecture
3.1. Goals of the Architecture
The SNMP explicitly minimizes the number and complexity of management
functions realized by the management agent itself. This goal is
attractive in at least four respects:
- The development cost for management agent software
necessary to support the protocol is accordingly reduced.
- The degree of management function that is remotely
supported is accordingly increased, thereby admitting
fullest use of internet resources in the management task.
- The degree of management function that is remotely
supported is accordingly increased, thereby imposing the
fewest possible restrictions on the form and
sophistication of management tools.
- Simplified sets of management functions are easily
understood and used by developers of network management
tools.
A second goal of the protocol is that the functional paradigm for
monitoring and control be sufficiently extensible to accommodate
additional, possibly unanticipated aspects of network operation and
management.
A third goal is that the architecture be, as much as possible,
independent of the architecture and mechanisms of particular hosts or
particular gateways.
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