MG-SOFT SNMP Agent is a transparent replacement for the SNMP service running
on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. Transparent means that no changes
whatsoever are required in the existing subagents and in the master agent
configuration. To deploy the MG-SOFT SNMP Master Agent, you only
need to shutdown Microsoft's SNMP Master Agent (service) and start MG-SOFT's
SNMP Master Agent. While starting, MG-SOFT SNMP Master Agent reads Microsoft
agent's configuration parameters from the system registry and loads the
listed subagent DLLs.
When running, MG-SOFT's SNMP Master Agent will properly respond
also to received SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 requests. By default, the
SNMPv3 protocol is configured to run in the noAuth/noPriv mode.
However, by adding a few additional registry keys, you can
configure it to run in any other SNMPv3 security mode.
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Secure replacement for the SNMP service on Windows
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If you configure MG-SOFT's SNMP Master Agent to respond only to SNMPv3
protocol queries, you significantly improve the overall security of the
computer running MG-SOFT's SNMP agent. The SNMPv3 protocol implements
strong authentication and network packet encryption, so that
malicious visitors cannot actively reconfigure the computer running
the SNMP agent, nor can they view the contents of SNMP network packets
(if they somehow manage to sniff them from the network).
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Subagents are completely un-related to the SNMP version spoken by the
master agent and they don't require any modifications when the SNMP
protocol version in the master agent is changed. There is no need for
any modification in the existing extension DLLs, i.e., the same binaries
that are used with Microsoft's agent will run also with MG-SOFT's agent.
MG-SOFT SNMP Master Agent Configurator
For example, MG-SOFT's agent
provided on the Internet for the SNMPv3 interoperability testing
is running on an NT 4.0 machine and is using the standard
Microsoft's inetmib1.dll extension dll, binary file distributed with
various versions of 32-bit windows OSes (i.e., MG-SOFT doesn't have
source code for the extension dll to change or re-compile it. It
runs with MG-SOFT's SNMP Master Agent just as Microsoft provided it).
The advantage of Microsoft's SNMP Master Agent (vs. plain WinSNMP
SNMP Master Agent solution) is that Microsoft supports the RFC1213 MIB
and some other subagents (if you go with plain WinSNMP solution, you need
to implement them by yourself). The advantage of MG-SOFT's SNMP Master
Agent (vs. Microsoft's SNMP Master Agent) is that MG-SOFT's supports
SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3, while Microsoft's SNMP Master Agent
generally supports only SNMPv1 (besides SNMPv1, SNMPv2c is supported
only on Windows 2000, Windows XP and on Windows 2003 Server).
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