Developing SMUX peers for SNMP agents

Developing SMUX peers for SNMP agents

This chapter describes how to implement an SMUX peer to communicate with an SNMP agent. To understand this chapter, you should have a working knowledge of:

SNMP (read ``Configuring the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)'' for more information)
The C programming language
TCP/IP client/server technologies
Socket and/or TLI programming experience.

This chapter is organized as follows:

``Introduction'' discusses the role of the SMUX protocol within SNMP.
``An SMUX overview'' illustrates SMUX functionality through an example of an SMUX session and then describes how the SMUX protocol implements this functionality.
``Implementing an SMUX peer'' describes the implementation of an SMUX peer in the C programming language: defining and compiling MIB modules, the modification of an existing SMUX peer called foosmuxd to suit your application, and then compiling, executing and testing your peer.
``Description of reference peer foosmuxd'' provides a reference for the user seeking more information about the routines invoked by the peer.
``Structure and syntax of managed objects'' provides a reference for the user seeking more information about the structure and syntax of MIB objects.
``Glossary'' defines the SMUX and SNMP terms used in this chapter.

This chapter does not provide a detailed description of the SNMP protocol or of network management in general. For more information on these and related topics, see the ``References'' section. Also, read the documents listed in the ``References'' section before implementing an SMUX peer.