About the SNMP operations

An SNMP application can read values for the SNMP objects (for monitoring of devices) and some applications can also change the variables (to provide remote management of devices). Basic SNMP operations include:

The SNMP agent software on a device listens on port 161 for requests from an SNMP application. The SNMP agent and application communicate using User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Trap messages, which are unsolicited messages from a device, are sent to port 162.

Note: If an SNMP application makes a request for information about a device but an SNMP agent is not enabled on the device, the UDP packets are discarded.