Multi-Protocol 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 multi-protocol (SNMP, TL1,
CLI, HTTP, and others) agents. It offers end-to-end development
solutions to compile, test and develop multi-protocol agents
with adaptors, such as SNMP adaptor, TL1 adaptor, CLI adaptor,
HTTP adaptor, and other such adaptors. Agent developers can
increase productivity with easy-to-use GUIs for configurations,
such as master agent - subagents, SNMP proxy, TL1 security,
and CLI string mode. AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition offers
the complete development experience in building multi-protocol
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
multi-protocol 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
- Protocol adaptors, such as SNMP adaptor, TL1 adaptor,
CLI adaptor, and HTTP adaptor.
- Asynchronous message processing.
- Modular agent source code that provides option to include/exclude
the necessary protocol adapters during compilation, with
clean separation of platform dependent and platform independent
and instrument (stub) files.
- Timer Service and Monitor Service. The Timer service enables
to send notifications at specific dates and times. The Monitoring
service allows you to observe the variation over time of
attribute values in an observed module.
- Multi-protocol agent design is based on the model of common
instrumentation with multi-protocol access to the agent.
- Framework to plug-in other protocols.
- Master agent - subagent architecture for SNMP and TL1
in multi-protocol agent.
- Supports Code generation for CLI Command Set file apart from MIB file
- 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 MIB Editor to create and edit SNMP MIBs.
- Intuitive visual CLI Editor to create and edit CCS files.
- MIB to TCS (TL1 Command Set) and CCS (CLI Command Set)
mapping.
- 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 multi-protocol agent using
different browsers (MIB Browser, TL1CraftInterface, CLI
Browser, and Web Browser).
- Value added services, such as persistence, logging, and
database storage, command usage, command line editing, command
history, and command completion.
Multi-Protocol Agent Developer Experience
AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition offers a productive six-step
agent development experience for multi-protocol agents.
- Define / Edit MIBs: MIB Editor offers user-friendly
GUIs to define and edit MIBs, design the data layout and
data types conforming to ASN.1 syntax.
- Generate Source Code: The defined MIBs can be loaded
into the Agent Compiler to generate code that offers the
basic multi-protocol agent framework. For a multi-protocol
agent, the MIB to TCS and CCS mapping is also done when
the MIB is loaded in the Agent Compiler. Currently, the
Agent Compiler also supports MIB to TCS customization.
- 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 multi-protocol
agent framework and specific instrumentation code need to
be compiled to generate the multi-protocol agent with desired
functionality.
- Test the Developed Multi-Protocol Agent: The developed
agent can be queried and tested using different browsers,
such as MIB Browser, TL1CraftInterface, CLI Browser, and
Web Browser.
- Package and Deploy: The developed multi-protocol
agent is ready to be packaged and deployed in the target
environment.
Multi-Protocol Agent Runtime Architecture
AdventNet multi-protocol agent runtime architecture is standards
based and its open architecture offers you advantage of standard
communication for integration. The architecture components
and functions are explained below:
Standalone Multi-Protocol Agent Components
- Adaptors: The various adaptors through which the
manager can communicate with the agent are SNMP, TL1, CLI,
and HTTP. The MPA architecture provides a support to plug
in other adapters also apart from the ones mentioned above.
- Agent Server: This module receives all the queries
from the manager and processes the information, communicates
with the various modules to retrieve the necessary data,
verifies the data (both the input and the response), and
then sends the response back to the manager.
- Managed Data: This module is updated either by
an external device, or the database, or the text file where
the necessary information is stored. These data are instrumented
based on individual requirement.
- Services: The Timer and Monitor service are supported
in the MPA agent. The Timer service enables sending notifications
at specific dates and times. The Monitoring service allows
you to observe the variation over time of attribute values
in an observed module.
- Notification Broadcaster: This is used to broadcast
a notification to the registered listeners. Notifications
emitted from the agent instrumentation uses this module
to send notifications to protocol adapters. Also, timer
and monitor service use this module to send alarm if timer
is expired and if threshold value is exceeded.
Supported Standards
| Protocol |
Version |
Standard |
| SNMP |
Version 1 |
RFC 1155, RFC 1157, RFC 1213, RFC 1215 |
| Version 2 |
RFC 1901, RFC 1907 |
| Version 3 |
RFC 3411, RFC 3412, RFC 3413, RFC 3414,
RFC 3415, RFC 3584 |
| TL1 |
|
GR 199, GR 815, GR 831, TR 835 |
| CLI |
|
RFC 854, RFC 855 |
| HTTP |
|
RFC 1945, RFC 2068 |
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 |
311 KB.
Multi-protocol agent (SNMPv1/v2, HTTP, CLI, and TL1 adaptors)
with security disabled, single thread enabled, developed
in Linux 9.0, without the MIBs, debug, and warning information,
and other optimization options enabled. |
About AdventNet
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