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SNMP++: An Object-Oriented Approach to Developing Network Management Applications (Bk/CD-ROM)

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This book is almost an exact duplicate of the document that is included when you download the SNMP++ package. The CD contains older versions of the source and the tools that can be also be downloaded from the site. The only reason to buy the book is if you can't get online at all. I regret having wasted my money.

The subject matter is good. But the writing is bad. Perhaps, the book was written very hastily. Almost every page has a mistake in it, grammatical or otherwise. The author has used too many cut and pastes when writing this book, resulting in: (1) lots of uselessly duplicated text and diagrams, and (2) lots of editing mistakes. The author has some favorite words that he uses abundantly, e.g., "instrument" as a verb, "network appliance", etc. He keeps on referring to a MIB as "an MIB" and many times refers to an unsigned long as "a unsigned long". The book is poor in explanation. Not intended for people who do not already understand SNMP.

Most books on SNMP focus on the low level details of the protocol. This book takes a different and more useful approach allowing SNMP applications to be built with ease and power.

For anyone building network management solutions, this book is a must. The SNMP++ technology allowed me to take advantage of SNMP without getting bogged down the lower level details of the SNMP protocol. HP has some great technology when it comes to network management.

Awesome work! This technology saved me many man hours of work getting my SNMP management application to market. If you are looking for an OO / C++ based set of classes to leverage for network management, this is it.

I found the work and text to be very useful. All other books I could find on SNMP are on the lower layers of the protocol and related to IETF standards and such. This text cleary defined to me how object oriented applications could be written using SNMP++. Without this text, I would have spent hours re-inventing what was already accomplished here.