3. Manager Functional Description

3 Manager Functional Description

3.1 Features

The manager provided with the tool is a lightweight manager that basically provides a means to communicate with agents.

It does not really implement any management capabilities by itself. That is up to the user.

A user in this context is basically a module implementing the snmpm_user behaviour. A user can issue snmp requests and receive notification/traps.

Agents to be accessed by the manager needs to be registered by a user. Once registered, they can be accessed by all registered users.

Notifications/traps from an agent is delivered to the user that did the registration.

Any message from an agent that is not registered is delivered to the default user.

By default, the default user is set to the