You have finally finished provisioning and configuring your network. Now, how do you know that it is operating at its peak efficiency? How will you know if there are problems in your network before your employees start to yell at you? Welcome to the world of network monitoring with SNMP and Syslog. Virtually every network monitoring platform today relies on the Simple Network Management Protocol to extract data from your network to determine its current health. Syslog is used along with SNMP to alert you to conditions, warnings and events as they happen. This course will introduce you to both protocols. You’ll learn of the various SNMP versions, message types, and security models. You’ll learn IOS commands to enable SNMP on your router or switch. And you’ll learn how Syslog works, its severity levels, facility levels, and methods of exporting Syslog message to an external server.
