CLI Agent Datasheet
Rapid prototyping and development tool for building SNMP
agents, TL1 agents, and CLI agents in ANSI C.
Overview
AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition is a rapid application
development platform to generate standalone Command Line Interface
(CLI) agents. It offers end-to-end development solutions to
compile, test, and develop CLI agents in two different modes:
String mode and Character mode. CLI agent developers can increase
productivity with easy-to-use GUIs for configurations of communication
protocol settings, including the port numbers, maximum number
of connections (sessions), keep alive timeout, command buffer
size, and prompt. AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition offers
complete development experience in building CLI agents.
AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition’s generated source
files are ported and tested in leading operating systems,
such as Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, and NT, Solaris, Linux,
Unix, Free BSD, Net BSD, HP-Unix, and OS-2. The developed
CLI agents are fully supported in embedded operating systems,
such as VxWorks, QNX Nutrino, Windows CE, and OSE. Agent source
files can also easily be ported to other new operating systems.
Key Features
- Standalone String mode and Character mode agents.
- Multi-protocol agent (string mode only).
- Role Based security
- Customize response message.
- Communication through Telnet, TCP, Craft, SSH and Serial Interfaces.
- Session API Framework to plug-in user protocol for communication.
- Self-Monitoring support to monitor the Agent details like
the number of requests received and number of responses
sent.
- Multiple CLI Command Set (CCS) and selected nodes' code
generation.
- Complete help with syntax, options, examples, etc.
- Built-in commands, which help users, configure the CLI
agent with much ease.
- Wild card support (Press '?' key for the agent to list
the matching commands).
- Agent handles more than one request at a time in multi-threaded
platform.
- Logging support for CLI Security module
- IPv6 addressing support in addition to IPv4
Developer Benefits
- End-to-End tools enable complete agent development cycle
to reduce time-to-market.
- Intuitive visual CLI Editor to create and edit CCS files.
- CLI Compiler (Agent Compiler) to generate and compile
the code to build an agent.
- Incremental agent development support through the concept
of project workspace.
- Complete testing of developed CLI agent using CLI Browser.
- Value added services like Command Usage, Command Line
Editing, Command History, and Command Completion.
CLI Agent Developer Experience
AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition offers a productive six-step
agent development experience for standalone CLI agents.
- Define / Edit CCS: CLI Editor offers user-friendly
GUIs to define and edit CCSs (string mode and character
mode), design the command syntax and attributes. The CCS
file is stored in XML format.
- Generate Source Code: The defined CCSs can be loaded
into the Agent Compiler to generate code that offers the
basic CLI agent framework.
- Add Desired Instrumentation: Once the basic framework
is ready, developers can add their necessary instrumentation
to meet their specific requirements.
- Compiling the Generated Source: The generated CLI
agent framework and specific instrumentation code need to
be compiled to generate the CLI agent with desired functionality.
- Test the Developed CLI Agent: The developed agent
needs to be queried and tested using CLI Browser.
- Package and Deploy: The developed CLI agent is
ready to be packaged and deployed in the target environment.
CLI Agent Runtime Architecture
AdventNet CLI agent runtime architecture is standards based
and open architecture offering you advantage of standard communication
for integration. The architecture components and functions
are explained below:
Standalone CLI Agent Components
- Session: The Session Module comprises the components,
such as session (establishes connection), Transport Provider
Interface (communicates between agent and manager), Craft
Interface (receives input messages), and Telnet Interface
(manages the agent remotely).
- CLI Core: This comprises CLI Engine (Core of CLI
agent, which receives input messages, parses them and sends
output messages), dispatcher (dispatches both input and
response messages), Security, Built-in Commands (all commands
already implemented in CLI agent), Self-Monitor (monitors
the CLI agent), Parser, Formatter, Command Registry (used
to register the instrumented code properties in the agent).
- User Code: This comprises the Instrumentation Module,
which contains the agent instrumentation for a given CCS
file.
Supported CLI Standards
| Standard |
Description |
| RFC 854 |
Telnet Protocol Specifications |
| RFC 855 |
Telnet Optional Specifications |
System Requirements
| System
Requirements |
| Hardware
Requirements |
| Processor Speed |
256 MHz or higher |
| Memory |
128 MB RAM or higher |
| Hard Drive Space |
100 MB |
| Software
Requirements |
| Supported Platforms |
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux, Solaris
or any OS that provides JVM support. |
| Java Version |
1.4.0 & above. |
| C/C++ Compiler |
Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 onwards or Borland
C++ 4.0 onwards for Windows. GNU C / C++ compiler (any
version) for UNIX platform. |
| Runtime
Agent Specifications |
| Ported OS/RTOS |
Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, and NT, Solaris,
Linux, Unix, Free BSD, Net BSD, HP-Unix, OS-2, VxWorks,
QNX Nutrino, Windows CE, and OSE |
| Footprint |
63 KB.
String Mode CLI agent with security disabled, single thread
enabled, and TCP/IP, Telnet interface enabled developed in Linux
9.0, without the CCS, debug, and warning information,
and other optimization options enabled. |
About AdventNet
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provisioning of complex networks, systems, and IT applications.
With a broad product portfolio and an active customer base
ranging from enterprises, equipment vendors, and service providers,
AdventNet has emerged as a very affordable and high-quality
alternative to expensive software that is common in this industry.
AdventNet is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices in NJ, NH, India, UK, China and Japan.
It has a well-trained partner base around the globe and thousands of customers world-wide.
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