SNMP

Description

This indicates an attempt to use the SNMP protocol.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a network protocol to collect and organize information about devices on an IP network and to modify information to change a device behavior. SNMP is commonly used in network management systems to monitor the networks. It provides data on managed systems in a management information base which describes the system status and configuration.

Affected Products

SNMP

Impact

Unexpected network communication

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Reasonable

Default Ports

• UDP/161-162

References

• http://www.net-snmp.org
• https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1157.txt