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authormrm <mrm@ae88bc3d-4319-0410-8dbf-d08b4c9d3795>1998-12-29 05:04:47 +0000
committermrm <mrm@ae88bc3d-4319-0410-8dbf-d08b4c9d3795>1998-12-29 05:04:47 +0000
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Add info on extending agent, fix typos
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Wed Jul 15 20:37:54 CDT 1998
+Fri Dec 18 09:43:35 CST 1998
====================================================================
-ASNMP = ACE+SNMP++ Version 2.0
+ASNMP = ACE+SNMP++ Version 2.1
By Michael R. MacFaden mrm@acm.org, mrm@yagosys.com
====================================================================
@@ -80,15 +80,27 @@ What about SNMP Version 2c?
their behavior. V2c hasn't been deployed
What about SNMP Version 3?
- It is looking good for V3, but so far, we're just wathing.
+ It is looking good for V3, but so far, we're just watching.
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/snmpv3-charter.html
-
+ A C implemenation is now available from UC Davis.
+
What copyrights/legal requirements are required when using this code?
See ./COPYRIGHT
Does this really work?
See tests/ directory for the current test reports (purify/purecov/...).
+How does one Extend an SNMP Agent?
+ Extending an agent typically means updating the agent source or
+ using a dynamic link style API. RFC 2257 (AgentX) is the current design
+ for doing this in a standard way. This hasn't been well formalized yet
+ so extending an existing agent is still a vendor API thing.
+
+ The agent provided here is a template. A mib compiler and agent
+ library typically provide better agent support. See the UC-Davis
+ SNMP software for an example Agent that is portable and can report
+ on many flavors of UNIX and Windows.
+
Any Future Plans?
The ASNMP library will be improved for performance and made to use
higher level design patterns. Hopefully it will be used as a
@@ -99,10 +111,9 @@ Any Future Plans?
Regards,
Michael R. MacFaden
Member of the Technical Staff
-YAGO Systems, Inc.
-795 Vaqueros Ave
-Sunnyvale, CA 94086
-408-774-2900 x251
+Cabletron Systems, Inc.
+215 Moffet Park Drive
+Sunnyvale, CA 94089
mrm@yagosys.com
http://www.yagosys.com
@@ -143,7 +154,7 @@ wpdu.cpp - Adapter pattern based class between CMU and HP code
transaction.cpp - synchronous transaction clss
vb.cpp - Variable Binding class source (oid + value)
-<< SMI datatypes used to get/set values in SNMPv1 agents>>
+<< SMI datatypes used to get/set values in SNMPv1 agents >>
address.cpp - Address class source
gauge.cpp - Gauge32 class source