SNMP 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 SNMP agents. It
offers end-to-end development solutions to compile, test,
and develop SNMP v1, SNMP v2c, SNMP v3 with VACM authorization,
and SNMP v3 with USM authorization. SNMP agent developers
can increase productivity with easy-to-use GUIs for configurations,
such as master agent - subagent and SNMP proxy configuration.
AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition offers complete development
experience in building SNMP v1, SNMP v2c, and SNMP v3 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
SNMP agents are fully supported in embedded operating systems,
such as VxWorks, QNX Nutrino, Windows CE, and OSE. Agent source
files can also be easily ported to other new operating systems.
Key Features
- Complete SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 support.
- Highly scalable master agent - subagent architecture to
handle distributed management environment.
- Support for traps, notifications, and informs.
- Authentication support for data security in networks and
systems.
- USM, VACM, co-existence, and notification filtering mechanism
support in SNMPv3.
- Atomicity or rollback support while processing multi-varbind
SNMP SET requests.
- Transport provider framework.
- Heart Beat mechanism between master and subagent with
subagent LinkUp/ LinkDown trap support.
- Trap forwarding and trap filtering in master agent.
- SNMPv3 Admin tool for manipulating USM and VACM tables at runtime.
- 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.
- MIB 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 SNMP agent using MIB Browser.
- Value added services, such as persistence, logging, and
database storage.
SNMP Agent Developer Experience
AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition offers a productive six-step
agent development experience for standalone SNMP v1, SNMP
v2c, and SNMP v3 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 SNMP 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 SNMP
agent framework and specific instrumentation code needs
to be compiled to generate the SNMP agent with desired functionality.
- Test the Developed SNMP Agent: The developed agent
needs to be queried and tested using MIB Browser.
- Package and Deploy: The developed SNMP agent is
ready to be packaged and deployed in the target environment.
SNMP Agent Runtime Architecture
AdventNet SNMP 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 SNMP Agent Components
- Transport Provider: It facilitates the communication
between the manager and the agent. SNMP messages require
transport protocol for their transmission. AdventNet SNMP
agent supports UDP/IP and TCP/IP as the transport protocol.
- Security: This module ensures the authenticity
of the received request before dispatching it for further
processing. Unauthenticated requests are dropped.
- Message Processing Unit: It undertakes the responsibility
of extracting data from received messages and processing
them. It determines the appropriate agent stub capable of
handling the query. Finally, the output received from the
agent stub is packaged as a response message and sent back.
- Agent Stubs: It contains the management information
exposed by the agent about the application or device. Instrumentation
of the agent stub enables communication between the agent
and the application/device being managed. The information
retrieved from the application/device is forwarded to the
message processing unit.
Supported SNMP Standards
| SNMP
Version |
RFC
Number |
Description |
| SNMP Version 1 |
RFC 1155 |
Structure and Identification of Management
Information for TCP/IP-based Internets. |
| RFC 1157 |
Simple Network Management Protocol. |
| RFC 1213 |
MIB II Implementation for Linux and VxWorks. |
| RFC 1215 |
Convention for defining traps for use with
the SNMP |
| SNMP Version 2 |
RFC 1901 |
Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2. |
| RFC 1907 |
MIB for SNMPv2. |
| SNMP Version 3 |
RFC 3411 |
SNMP Framework MIB. |
| RFC 3412 |
SNMP Message Processing and Dispatching
(MPD). |
| RFC 3413 |
SNMP Target MIB and SNMP Notification MIB. |
| RFC 3414 |
SNMP User-Based Security Model (USM) MIB. |
| RFC 3415 |
SNMP View-Based Access Control Model (VACM)
MIB. |
| RFC 3584 |
SNMP Co-existence between Version 1, Version
2, and Version 3 MIB. |
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 |
61 KB.
SNMP agent with v1/v2 enabled, v3 security disabled, single
thread enabled, developed in Linux 9.0, without the MIBs,
debug, and warning information, and other optimization
options enabled. |
About AdventNet
Enabling Management Your Way™
AdventNet provides affordable software for management and
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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