[SNMP4J] snmp4j-agent

[Jim Chan]

I have been learning SNMP and playing with SNMP4J sporadically for about
two months ago.  Here are my two cents.  Feel free to add anymore
information.

SNMP agent is a java implementation of net-snmp (see TestAgent).  You
would use it if you are writing an application that wants to serve SNMP
requests on port 161 and fire informs/traps on port 162.  

SNMP agent X is a java implementation of net-snmp with agentX option
turned on (see TestMasterAgent).  It also provides an API to write
subagents so you can talk to an agentX server (see TestSubAgent).  You
would use this if you want your application to delegate all SNMP
handling to a central agentX service.

SNMP4J is a client API to allow your appliation to programatically make
SNMP queries to an agent or agentX.  It also provides an API to fire
informs/traps so that if your application does not care about giving out
statistics on port 161 it can still send notifications out on 162
without having to open a listening socket.

Hope this helps you.

Jim Chan


-----Original Message-----
From: snmp4j-bounces at agentpp.org [mailto:snmp4j-bounces at agentpp.org] On
Behalf Of snmp girl
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:21 AM
To: snmp4j at agentpp.org
Subject: Re: [SNMP4J] snmp4j-agent

yes , I know that the agent snmp send traps to the manager in case of
errors
but what's I mean is what offers you this api snmp4j .
for exp with using the net-snmp you have to configure those manually
with
the snmptrap.conf and the snmp.conf.
so what I want to know is where the snm4j-agent is used ?
can anyone give a simple example?

thanks

2008/4/16, lalit patel <lalitkpatel82 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello
>  I think you should read a little bit about SNMP protocol.
> SNMP manager interact with SNMP agent for having data stored in
MIBs.Also
> agent can  send  information to manager in case of any critical events
> through SNMP traps
>
> With regard
> lalit
>
>  On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM, snmp girl <snmp.girl at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to know what's the snmp4j agent is for , I had already used
the
> > snmp4j and it helps me to send and receive traps . and also I send
the
> > get/set etc...., so I don't know where we can use the snmp4j agent
> >
> > thanks a lot
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> > SNMP4J at agentpp.org
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> >
>
>
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