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The SNMP Toolkit
The Java Dynamic Management Kit provides a toolkit for developing SNMP agents and managers. The main components of this toolkit are described in the following subsections.
SNMP Adaptor
The SNMP adaptor implements the SNMP v1 and v2 protocol stack. The adaptor is able to manage an unlimited number of different MIBs. By providing a unified view of all the MIBs, the SNMP adaptor solves the subagent problem that commonly occurs with SNMP. The SNMP adaptor allows MIBs to be loaded or unloaded dynamically. This enables a MIB to be loaded into, updated, and unloaded from an agent while it is running.
SNMP MIB Compiler - mibgen
The mibgen compiler takes as input a set of SNMP MIBs and generates m-beans that implement the MIBs. MIBs can be expressed using SNMP v1 or SNMP v2 syntax.
The mibgen compiler is able to process:
The mibgen compiler also generates the Java source code required for representing a whole MIB in an SNMP manager.
SNMP Manager API
The SNMP manager API is a set of Java classes that simplifies the development of applications for managing SNMP agents. The agents may be developed with the Java Dynamic Management Kit, or by other means.
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