<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.snmp.html">SNMP</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="snmp.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.snmp.html">SNMP</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.snmp" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> The SNMP extension provides a very simple and easily usable toolset for managing remote devices via the Simple Network Management Protocol. </p> <p class="para"> As it is a wrapper around the underlying Net-SNMP (or UCD-SNMP on older systems) library, all basic concepts are the same and the PHP functions change their behaviour depending on the Net-SNMP configuration files and environment variables. </p> <p class="para"> Beginning with PHP 5.4, an OO API is available. </p> <p class="para"> More information about Net-SNMP can be found at <a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/" class="link external">» http://www.net-snmp.org/</a> </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.snmp.html">SNMP</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="snmp.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.snmp.html">SNMP</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>