SNMP EasyAgent toolkit provides a framework for extending Microsoft's and
MG-SOFT's SNMP Master Agents running on Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. By using the
provided framework, any Windows application can easily export and import
its data through the SNMP agent and can be remotely managed by using the
SNMP protocol.
SNMP EasyAgent will operate both with MG-SOFT's SNMP Master
Agent as well as with the SNMP Service supplied with Windows operating systems.
API specification is available in the SNMP Software Development Lab distribution for Windows.
The following is a brief overview of the MG-SOFT SNMP EasyAgent framework.
The SNMP EasyAgent framework consists of two main DLL files:
- The first DLL (called EasyAgent server) is loaded by
Microsoft's SNMP Service (SNMP.EXE) or MG-SOFT's SNMP Agent (MGSNMP.EXE) as an
ordinary subagent extension.
- The second DLL (called EasyAgent client) is used by an
application that wants to export or import its data to
the network via the SNMP protocol. The application can
run either in the user mode or as NT System service.
At the startup of the application, the EasyAgent client DLL
and the SNMP EasyAgent server DLL establish a permanent connection.
The application then retrieves handles of the data in the MIB
sub-tree and initializes the data.
After a successful initialization, the data can be retrieved
or set to a new value from the network via the SNMP protocol.
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Installing the SNMP EasyAgent and SNMP EasyAgent-based subagents
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To install the SNMP EasyAgent framework, run the setup.exe and follow
the on-screen guidelines. Make sure to have installed the Microsoft's
SNMP Master Agent (SNMP service) before you install the SNMP EasyAgent SDK.
In case you will be installing the Microsoft's SNMP Master agent
(SNMP service) on Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista, re-apply the Windows service
pack (if applicable) after the installation.
Installation procedure for the SNMP EasyAgent-based subagents is
described in the SNMP EasyAgent documentation, distributed in the
SNMP Software Development Lab package.
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Apply for your own enterprise OID number
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To avoid conflicts regarding the OID naming structure, you may wish to apply for
your own enterprise
OID number.
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SNMP EasyAgent Source Code Template Generator
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MG-SOFT SNMP EasyAgent Source Code Template
Generator is a software utility designed to incrase the productivity
of the SNMP agent developers. It takes a MIB file on it's input and according
to the given MIB generates a C/C++ (or VB or Delphi/Pascal) source code template
(stub) for developing the SNMP EasyAgent based agent extension (subagent)
implementing the given MIB. Having the generated source code template, the
programmer only needs to add the source code implementing required actions on
OIDs for SNMP-GET, SNMP-SET and/or SENDTRAP events.
