The SNMP protocol is an older solution for remotely auditing and managing information about network resources. You can use this protocol in PHP to retrieve information about a remote resource on the network. The PHP language includes libraries for the SNMP protocol to remotely query an object and retrieve a list of data values regarding the network resource’s services and configurations. $device = snmpget(“127.0.0.1”, “public”, “system.SysContact.0”); Replace the IP address with the IP address of the device you want to access. $data snmp_read_mib(’./MIB.txt’); Replace “MIB.txt” with the MIB file that contains the SNMP information on the device. print_r( snmprealwalk(’$data, ‘FOO-BAR-MIB::table’ ); Writer Bio

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