Implementation and bandwidth consumption evaluation of SNMP to Web services gateways

Abstract

Web services gateways are needed to include SNMP devices into a Web services based management architecture. We propose in this paper two approaches for such gateways and evaluate these approaches in order to verify the feasibility of using Web services closer to the network devices interface. We primarily tested the bandwidth consumed by these gateways when using SOAP with HTTP, HTTPS, and a compression process. The evaluation shows that Web services gateways are especially interesting when the number of SNMP object instances retrieved is high.