The Net-SNMP agent(3) net-snmp The Net-SNMP agent(3)NAME
The Net-SNMP agent - The snmp agent responds to SNMP queries from
management stations.
Modules
Net-SNMP Agent handler and extensibility API
The basic theory goes something like this: In the past, with the
original mib module api (which derived from the original CMU SNMP
code) the underlying mib modules were passed very little
information (only the truly most basic information about a
request).
Maintain a registry of MIB subtrees, together with related information
regarding mibmodule, sessions, etc
Trap generation routines for mib modules to use
net-snmp agent related processing
Detailed Description
The snmp agent responds to SNMP queries from management stations.
Version 5.3.1 13 Jul 2006 The Net-SNMP agent(3)