Embedded Agents

Device management is an integral part of network management. As devices form key ingredients in the network, it is very essential that these devices must meet protocol standards in configuration and management. Network equipment vendors need to ensure that devices have detailed standards-based configuration and management capabilities.

Depending on the customer or market requirements, network equipment vendors have to equip their devices with SNMP, TL1, CLI agents. The requirement can be agents that run in an embedded system or in a Java-enabled device. Agents must be built on standards to ensure device management via AdventNet Web NMS or any leading Network / Enterprise Managament System. Building an agent requires domain level expertise on specific protocol with capital and time investments. These factors can drastically increase the time-to-market.

AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition Solution

AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition offers productive agent development environment to build SNMP, TL1, CLI and multi-protocol agents with productive development tools. It offers a basic agent framework for the chosen protocol. By providing device-specific instrumentation agents are developed rapidly for an embedded system.

Agents built using AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition are supported on popular RTOS, such as WindRiver VxWorks, OSE Delta, QNX Neutrino, and Windows CE etc. Packed with tools such as MIB editor, TL1 Message Builder, Agent Compiler, TL1 Craft Interface, MIB browser, CLI Editor and CLI Browser etc., AdventNet Agent Toolkit offers a very developer friendly environment for agent development.

Quick overview of AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition

Agents built using AdventNet Agent Toolkit C Edition are supported on popular RTOS, such as WindRiver VxWorks, OSE Delta, QNX Neutrino, and Windows CE etc. Packed with tools such as MIB editor, Message Builder, Agent Compiler, TL1 browser, MIB browser, etc. Agent Toolkit offers a very developer friendly environment for agent development.

Supports standalone SNMP, standalone TL1, standalone CLI, and Multi-Protocol agent development
Follows strict ANSI C standards
Supports common platforms, such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, Unix, Free BSD, Net BSD, HP-Unix, and OS2
Supports popular RTOS, such as VxWorks, OSE Delta, QNX Neutrino, and WindowsCE.
New protocols can be added easily
Minimal agent foot print

AdventNet Agent Toolkit Java Edition Solution

AdventNet Agent Toolkit Java Edition provides SNMP management for network equipments that have embedded JVM support. The SNMP agent is highly portable and designed in such a way that it can be integrated in any given embedded system. It offers remote configuration and management for any Java-enabled embedded device.

Supported Embedded JVM

The AdventNet Agent Toolkit Java Edition - SNMP agent supports the following embedded JVMs:

1. Newmonics (PERC VM)
2. GCJ (GNU)
3. IBM Visual Agent Micro Edition

Note: AdventNet agent can be ported in any embedded device which is compatible with J2ME.

**Quick Overview of AdventNet Agent Toolkit Java Edition - SNMP Agent**

Minimal agent memory footprint and minimal flash memory requirement.
Compatible with the following J2ME CDC Specifications: SUN J2ME CDC Implementation & IBM J2ME CDC Implementation
Supports standalone SNMP v1 and v2c agent development.
Facilitates Event Handling (Notifications) and SNMP operations.
End-to-End tools for developing and testing agents.

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