A suite of tools for monitoring network equipment health using an SNMP implementation.
Net-SNMP is a free and open source SNMP monitoring app and networking program, developed by NetSNMP for Windows. It's pretty efficient.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
A suite of tools for monitoring network equipment health
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (eg. routers), computer equipment and even devices like UPSs. Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement SNMP v1, SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6.
Features of Net-SNMP
- # A library for developing new SNMP applications, with both C and perl APIs.
- A daemon application for receiving SNMP notifications (snmptrapd). Selected notifications can be logged (to syslog, the NT Event Log, or a plain text file), forwarded to another SNMP management system, or passed to an external application.
- A graphical MIB browser (tkmib), using Tk/perl.
- An extensible agent for responding to SNMP queries for management information (snmpd). This includes built-in support for a wide range of MIB information modules and can be extended using dynamically loaded modules, external scripts and commands and both the SNMP multiplexing (SMUX) and Agent Extensibility (AgentX) protocols.
- Convert between numerical and textual forms of MIB OIDs and display MIB content and structure (snmptranslate).
- Manipulate configuration information on an SNMP-capable device (snmpset).
- Retrieve a fixed collection of information from an SNMP-capable device (snmpdf, snmpnetstat, snmpstatus).
- Retrieve information from an SNMP-capable device, either using single requests (snmpget, snmpgetnext), or multiple requests (snmpwalk, snmptable, snmpdelta).
Compatibility and License
Net-SNMP has been released under a BSD license on the Windows operating system from network software. This means you can download, install, run and share this program freely without any restrictions. Unlike GPL software, the source code isn't necessarily available.
What version of Windows can Net-SNMP run on?
Net-SNMP can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
Filed under:
- Net-SNMP Download
- Free Network Software
- Open source and GPL software
- SNMP Monitoring Software
