A SNMP group polling for the management traffic
Kyo-Cheul Hwang, Jong-Joon Hong, Kyoon-Ha Lee · 2003
The SNMP (simple network management protocol) could halve the overhead of the network, if the number of the agent system which is managed by the management system is increased by the polling for the collection of network management information and the reply traffic for it. In this paper, the polling method used in SNMP is improved, and a group polling method is proposed. This can reduce the overhead of the network, in case 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 a result of the prototype test, the increment of the agent system can have a small variation of traffic and transmission delay time.