Simple Network Management Protocol

The standard protocol in the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Suite that (a) is used to manage and control IP gateways and the networks to which they are attached, (b) uses IP directly, bypassing the masking effects of TCP error correction, (c) has a direct access to IP datagrams on a network that may be abnormally operating, thus requiring management, (d) defines a set of variables that the gateway must store, and (e) specifies that all control operations on the gateway are a side effect of fetching or storing those data variables, i.e., operations that are analogous to writing commands and reading statuses. Common abbreviation SNMP. See also access, command, common management information protocol, control, data, datagram, direct access, effect, error correction, fetch, fetch protection, gateway, Internet Protocol, mask, network, network management, operation, protocol, set, side effect, specify, standard, status, store, Transmission Control Protocol, Transmissi...