[SNMP4J] SNMP help

[Bryan Sevilla]

Hi, 
 
I need to provide SNMP support for the project I'm working on such that
I can send out snmp trap to the network monitoring software for a
certain events of the application. Our application actually process smtp
messages, and what we're looking at to be monitored was that when our
system receives an inbound mail, we would like to notify the network
monitoring software that a message was received and if it has been
process successfully or not. We would like also to monitor server
timeouts, those were the servers the application is connecting to, e.g.
DB host. I have read info from on the net about SNMP, MIB's but I still
don't know how I could start coding. Here are some of the questions that
bug me:
 
SNMP and MIB's are closely related, yet I don't know how could I create
an MIB? How could I identify the MIB's I will need? Do I need also to
provide mib for snmp trap? How could I map an mib text file to java
class in the context of snmp4j? Do I really need to create an Agent to
send a snmp trap? What are the classes I need to create a snmp trap?
 
Right now, I've already downloaded snmp4j and tried running the
TestAgent and was able to perform get/walk/set snmp operation on that
agent using an MIB browser.
 
Can someone lead me to the right direction on how could I start the
development using snmp4j?
 
Regards,
bryan