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The Quandary of Event Notification: SNMP Traps

Newcomers to IT network operations are often confounded by the complexity of managing, controlling, monitoring, diagnosing and repairing their networks. As we are all inclined to select the simplest tool, to a networking newcomer, the simplest tool for staying on top of network operations would be an event report …

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Checking for New SNMP Vulnerabilities

Cisco Systems recently announced a patch for a vulnerability in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) functions of some Cisco routers. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU usage on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to an incorrect initialized variable …

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SNMP Agent Simulator

IWL provides the SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite, Libraries and APIs for engineers to find and fix bugs in their SNMP agent implementations. Often developers and quality assurance engineers will need to test the SNMP management application to be used with a new SNMP agent. Verifying SNMP-based network management applications requires an SNMP agent simulator …

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IWL Quarterly Update: Winter 2015

DARPA announced in June 2014, that the DRC Finals would have a different structure than the Trials. In particular, Communications will be further degraded and intermittent forcing the robots to act more autonomously in completing their tasks. After reviewing the capabilities of all IWL’s Maxwell Network emulation products, the Maxwell Pro was chosen for its advanced programmatic capabilities …

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