[SNMP4J] (no subject)

[Frank Fock]

Hi Dan,

Please find my comments inline:


Daniel Bress wrote:

>I am interested in developing a java based snmp agent using snmp4j.  I
>am a little confused where to start.  I read on the news group that full
>agent support has not been implemented in snmp4j yet.  Is this correct?
>
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Yes and no. SNMP4J contains everything needed to implement a SNMP agent.
However, particularly if you want to implement a SNMPv3 agent there is
a lot of functionality that *you* will have to implement. Those 
functionality could
be implemented as an API (SDK) because any agent will need it. That's what
SNMP4JAgent will provide in the future.

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>
>To make sure I understand how snmp agent development is supposed to work
>can someone verify that these are the steps I would want to do
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>1)       define my agent mib
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>2)       run a mib-compiler to convert the mib into java class stubs
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>3)       implement my stubs to perform the appropriate
>instrumentation/configuration based on what that lead node is supposed
>to do.
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>Is this correct or am I missing something?
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This would be correct if SNMP4JAgent already exists. So either you write
something similar for SNMP4J or you wait until SNMP4JAgent is released.

Best regards,
Frank