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Application-layer management protocol used for monitoring and administration. SNMP operates by sending information to Network Management Servers (NMS). The NMS learns about problems in the network by receiving traps or inform messages generated by the individual device running SNMP or what is more commonly called the managed device. SNMP Operations – Agents listen to UDP port 161 for messages sent by the NMS – Responses are sent back to the originating NMS port from a dynamic port. Many agents use port 161 also for this target – Traps are received on port 162 of a NMS The first two variants of SNMP have pretty much the same protocol structure. <\/span>(V3 is shown below.) This means that each of them will encapsulate the same general message format into a UDP packet. This message will be similar to this: <\/a><\/span> SNMP Message Sequence Diag <\/a><\/span>