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diff --git a/docs/source/examples/contents.rst b/docs/source/examples/contents.rst index a7c1f29d..20e3053b 100644 --- a/docs/source/examples/contents.rst +++ b/docs/source/examples/contents.rst @@ -73,15 +73,48 @@ framework being used. Packet-level SNMP ----------------- -Low-level API that lets you build SNMP messages from Python -objects and exchange them through asyncore transport (or you could -write your own). These interfaces are very low-level and aimed at -a rather specific programming tasks. +In cases where performance is your top priority and you only need to +work with SNMP v1 and v2c systems and you do not mind writing much +more code, then there is a low-level API to SNMP v1/v2c PDU and +PySNMP I/O engine. There's practically no SNMP engine or SMI +infrastructure involved in the operations of these almost wire-level +interfaces. Although MIB services can still be used separately. + +A packet-level API-based application typically manages both SNMP +message building/parsing and network communication via one or more +transports. It's fully up to the application to handle failures on +message and transport levels. + +Command Generator ++++++++++++++++++ + +.. toctree:: + + /examples/v1arch/asyncore/manager/cmdgen/fetching-variables + /examples/v1arch/asyncore/manager/cmdgen/modifying-variables + /examples/v1arch/asyncore/manager/cmdgen/walking-operations + /examples/v1arch/asyncore/manager/cmdgen/transport-tweaks + +Command Responder ++++++++++++++++++ + +.. toctree:: + + /examples/v1arch/asyncore/agent/cmdrsp/agent-side-mib-implementations + +Notification Originator ++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. toctree:: + + /examples/v1arch/asyncore/agent/ntforg/transport-tweaks + +Notification Receiver ++++++++++++++++++++++ .. toctree:: - :maxdepth: 2 - /examples/v1arch/asyncore/contents + /examples/v1arch/asyncore/manager/ntfrcv/transport-tweaks Using these examples -------------------- |