The simple network management protocol (snmp) provides a framework for the exchange of management information between agents (servers) and clients.

this package includes net-snmp-config scripts, documentation and mibs (management information bases) for the snmp libraries, agents and applications. mibs contain a formal description of the data that can be managed using snmp and applications.

note: if you want the oids (object identifiers) to resolve to their text description, you need to activate the non-free repository and install the "snmp-mibs-downloader" package.