Simulation of multiple Agents

[Vijay K]

Hi,

Maybe I can try to make my question more clear?

I am writing a SNMP Manager application. This application has to communicate
with agents running on multiple devices. The SNMP agents are also being
developed currently. So I cannot use the "live" agents for testing my SNMP
Manager application. I have to write one or more "dummy" SNMP Agents for
this purpose.
Assuming that the SNMP Manager sends set/get requests to say 10 devices
(that in turn implies 10 different IP Addresses), my question is this: Can I
have a "dummy" SNMP agent running on one machine that can answer to any of
these requests? My problem is that since the SNMP Agent runs on a single
device, Agent++ would bind only one IP Address (or as you pointed out - all
IP addresses of the local host). So how can I make the SNMP Agent respond to
the SNMP Manager application?

thanks once again,

Vijay K

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Fock" <Frank.Fock____t-online.de>
To: "Vijay K" <vijay_kannan____hotmail.com>
Cc: <agentpp-dl____agentpp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 4:48 AM
Subject: Re: Simulation of multiple Agents


> Hi Vijay,
>
> By default AGENT++ binds all IP addresses of the local host.
> But I am not sure if your question goes in this direction?
> To "simulate" multiple SNMP agents with a single application
> seems to be impossible. But may be you something like a
> SNMP proxy agent. A proxy agent can be implemented with
> AGENT++. The "multiple agents" are then addressed by
> different context engine IDs (SNMPv3) or different communities
> (SNMPv1/v2c).
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
> Vijay K wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using Agent++ is it possible to simulate multiple SNMP Agents as part of
a
> > single application?
> > e.g. SNMP Manager sends a request to agent at multiple IP addresses. Can
one
> > SNMP Agent accept all these requests and send an appropriate response?
> >
> > If not directly possible with Agent++, are there any other possible
> > approaches to do this? Or are there any utilities (or sample code) for
> > writing such applications?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> > Vijay K
>
>
>