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In the 1980s, the only network management protocol that had achieved substantial success was IBM's NetView, a proprietary set of utilities and protocols developed for IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA). But since both SNA and NetView were proprietary, a different standard needed to emerge for other types of networks.
A flurry of development activity followed, resulting in two standards. The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force primarily for TCP/IP networks (though there are no barriers to implementing it on top of other protocol suites), and the Common Management Information...