The difference between these is who is initiating the conversation. In Polling, the monitoring server is initiating the conversation asking the network devices for information. Traps are the opposite where the network devices are sending information to the monitoring server right away when something happens. The network device has an issue, let’s say an interface down, that network device sends that information to the monitoring server right away. Polling is set to certain amount of time. Depending on how the … Continue reading SNMP Polling vs Traps