SNMP setup

ian g

I've just been reading about the security best-practices of using SNMP: Using v3, keeping SNMP traffic on a dedicated OOB network, etc. It all sounds good to me, and I understand the concepts here, but SNMP seems like a whole domain of study that I havn't come across. The CCNA curriculum touches on it too, but does Cisco get into the heart of managing their devices with SNMP anywhere else in the cirtification path ? CCNP?
I'd like to download some trial version of a management app (Solarwinds, for example), then play around in the lab with managing my ASR's with it.

impelse

The only touch about the benefits of the Version 3, I did not do any practice lab for that.