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diff --git a/ASNMP/README b/ASNMP/README deleted file mode 100644 index f07563c61a5..00000000000 --- a/ASNMP/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,177 +0,0 @@ -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 - |