1. SNMP Introduction

1 SNMP Introduction

The SNMP development toolkit contains the following parts:

• An Extensible multi-lingual SNMP agent, which understands SNMPv1 (RFC1157), SNMPv2c (RFC1901, 1905, 1906 and 1907), SNMPv3 (RFC2271, 2272, 2273, 2274 and 2275), or any combination of these protocols.
• A multi-lingual SNMP manager.
• A MIB compiler, which understands SMIv1 (RFC1155, 1212, and 1215) and SMIv2 (RFC1902, 1903, and 1904).

The SNMP development tool provides an environment for rapid agent/manager prototyping and construction. With the following information provided, this tool is used to set up a running multi-lingual SNMP agent/manager:

• a description of a Management Information Base (MIB) in Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
• instrumentation functions for the managed objects in the MIB, written in Erlang.

The advantage of using an extensible (agent/manager) toolkit is to remove details