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-Fri Dec 18 09:43:35 CST 1998
-====================================================================
-ASNMP = ACE+SNMP++ Version 2.1
-By Michael R. MacFaden mrm@acm.org, mrm@yagosys.com
-====================================================================
-
-What is ASNMP ? ==> ACE+SNMP! aka Another SNMP API
- HP's SNMP++ 2.5 freely available C++ SNMP class library
- has been adapted to the ACE 4.2 Framework.
-
-What is Simple Network Management Protocol(SNMP)?
- See the FAQ:
- http://www.snmp.com/FAQs/snmp-faq-part1.txt
- http://www.snmp.com/FAQs/snmp-faq-part2.txt
-
-
-What was changed from HP version?
- See src/ChangeLog file.
-
-Is HP SNMP++ compatible with ASNMP?
- It is neither source nor binary compatible. About 10% of the API has changed.
- There have been API changes to make the interface more orthogonal
- and to reduce implementation complexity such as consolidating constructors
- with default formal values, and to remove some inconsistencies
- with the HP interface as well as locking down valid() semantics, etc.
-
-What platforms have the test programs been verified on?
- Solaris 2.4, 2.5.1 using SUN C++ 4.1,4.2 compiler. Linux/GCC
- fixes are now in as well.
-
-Why use this version?
- The SNMP++ version ships only for HP-UX and for Windows.
- It is not very portable nor does it do a good job at checking
- for out of memory exhaustion conditions (asn1.cpp). There is some great
- code here. ACE needs an SNMP library to build NM type
- communications applications. Hence ASNMP was born in my spare time.
-
-How does ASNMP differ from SNMP?
- Current version uses ACE OS Adaption layer. All memory
- allocation is now consistent, uses ACE_NEW().
- Standard ACE Debugging (ACE_TRACE) has been inserted.
- ASNMP has less global namespace pollution by moving all non-class
- functions into interface classes or made into static locals.
-
- An agent inteface has been added (asnmp/sagent.h) so both agents
- and managers can use this class library. A trivial agent
- exists in ASNMP/agent/
-
- X11 GUI support removed from this version since this is
- not the place to include GUI support in the new world of
- multi-threaded apps.
-
- The async interface does not match the HP implementation.
-
-How to build this library
- Set ACE_ROOT and platform_macros.GNU per ../INSTALL file.
- create libasnmp.a, libasnmp.so and then run the tests
-
-Any Support for ASNMP?
- As time permits from the mailing list.
-
-Where to ask questions?
- Please use ace-users@cs.wustl.edu mailing list or mrm@acm.org
-
-NOTE: Please do not bother Eric Mellquist unless you are using
- the original HP version of this library.
-
-Where can I get the original HP SNMP++?
- From ftp://rosegarden.external.hp.com:/pub/snmp++
-
-What version of SNMP is fully supported?
- SNMP Version 1 (RFC 1155,1157, 1215)
-
-What about SNMP Version 2c?
- V2c is defined in RFC 1901 - 1908
- These bits are added to v1 code in this library: GetBulk PDU, Counter64
- These bits are missing Inform (RFC 1905)
- RFC 1903 defined new datatypes using existing SMI via macros.
- These should be coded as if they were SMI datatypes to encapsulate
- their behavior. V2c hasn't been deployed
-
-What about SNMP Version 3?
- 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
- vehicle for grad students to learn something about network mgmt
- code work a related cousin of general distributed programming.
-
-
-Regards,
-Michael R. MacFaden
-Member of the Technical Staff
-Cabletron Systems, Inc.
-215 Moffet Park Drive
-Sunnyvale, CA 94089
-mrm@yagosys.com
-http://www.yagosys.com
-
-====================================================================
-SNMP++ For UNIX Source Code and Examples:
-====================================================================
-Included within this package can be found the source code and
-examples for SNMP++. The following represents the directories which
-are included within the compressed tar file and their contents.
-
-For more details on the API , please refer to the API specification.
-
-This library is a complete implementation of SNMP++ and does not
-require other SNMP libraries to be present.
-
-Required Tools:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-readme.txt ( this file)
-|
-|
-|------ src ( .cpp files and Makefile for building libraries )
-|
-|------ examples ( a variety of apps, .cpp and Makefile included )
-|
-|------ tests - unit test routines
-
-
-src Directory Contents:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-Makefile - make file for ACE/Solaris 2. build
-target.cpp - Collection of attributes(address, timeout, etc) used
- to define a command session
-snmp.cpp - A logical session between NM app and agent
-pdu.cpp - Pdu class source (vb list and API command)
-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 >>
-
-address.cpp - Address class source
-gauge.cpp - Gauge32 class source
-integer.cpp - Integer32 class source
-counter.cpp - Counter32 class source
-ctr64.cpp - Counter64 class source
-timetick.cpp - TimeTicks class source
-octet.cpp - Octet String class source
-oid.cpp - Oid class source
-asn1.cpp - ASN1 encoding and decoding code. CMU code.
-
-examples Directory Contents:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
-Makefile - make file for building console apps
-get.cpp - source for SNMP get program
-next.cpp - source for SNMP get Next program
-set.cpp - source for SNMP set program
-trap.cpp - source for SNMP trap send program
-walk.cpp - source for SNMP walk program
-