The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is widely deployed to

monitor, control and configure network elements.  Even though the SNMP

technology is well documented, it remains relatively unclear howSNMP is 

used in practice and what typical SNMP usage patterns are.


This document proposes to carry out large scale SNMP traffic

measurements in order to develop a better understanding how SNMP is 

used in real world production networks.  

It describes the motivation, the measurement approach, and the tools 

and data formats needed to carry out such a study.