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- course id
- SNMP-AGENT
- duration
- 1 day(s)
- Aimed At
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SNMP Agent software developers.
- Prerequisites
- Course in a Nutshell
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After an Enterprise’s MIB design is finalized and fully validated, the next task is Agent software development. A number of issues need to be considered in selecting a development kit.
- Targeted operating system (or systems)
- Pre-existence of SNMP agents on those platforms
- Embedded platforms or not
- Tool cost vs. time-to-market (and market opportunity cost)
- Protocol validation issues
Once a tool is selected, many common coding issues will be encountered. This intensive, one-day tutorial will prepare you to deal with these issues and allow you to proceed quickly to a deliverable product. Example topics include choosing how to best access and manage MIB-related data, and the number (and purposes) of agent code threads that may be needed. We will reveal a number of very surprising problems drawn from our own extensive SNMP experience related to deployed agents, followed by a discussion of agent testing strategies, descriptions of specific tests, and the presentation of a comprehensive test plan from a past project. You will learn the important details of syntax encoding for “get”, “set”, “trap” and other message types. The course will conclude with the review of a checklist for productizing Enterprise MIBs and agents.
- Customize It!
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- Learn How To
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- Watch out for common agent problems
- Make agent architectural and SDK choices
- Define agent semantics
- Coexist (if necessary) with native agents
- Be aware of important coding issues
- Describe the details of SNMP message syntax
- Fully test your agent prior to deployment
- Productize your MIB and agent products
- Course Outline
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- True stories of delivered agents with significant deficiencies
- Agent development steps
- Defining goals and tradeoffs
- Agent SDK selection criteria
- Agent architectural choices and issues
- Agent semantics
- Coexistence of enterprise agents with native platform agents
- Trap design
- Agent coding issues
- Data acquisition
- Read-write data management
- Returning multiple values
- Processing get-next requests
- Table index data type choices
- Multi-step “set” processing
- Code threads and uses
- Trap send logic
- Agent initialization and log files
- SNMP message syntax and coding
- Agent testing (static and dynamic)
- Productizing an Enterprise MIB and agent
- Wrap-up: Course recap, Q/A, and evaluations
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