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Conference azur::mcc

Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

2651.0. "An AGENT vs a ACCESS MODULE" by MQOSWS::A_COURCHESNE (Un ami pour la vie...) Mon Mar 30 1992 12:37

    I have a customer who yants to create either a CMIP or SNMP agnt for
    its product.  The customer is TELEGLOBE CANADA.  They would be
    interested in knowing how they should go about to render their product
    SNMP or CMIP compliant.
    
    They don't want to have an access module, they want to incorporate an
    agent in their hardware.... how do they proceed to do so.
    
    Andre J. Courchesne
    Montreal

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2651.1	An agent question	TOOK::MINTZ	Erik Mintz, DECmcc Development, dtn 226-5033	`Mon Mar 30 1992 13:49`	7
	DECmcc access modules already exist for SNMP and (DEC) CMIP. Your customer does have to implement an agent. Are they asking you to provide an agent, or for pointers to specifications for the management protocols, or ??? -- Erik
2651.2	The want help on creating an agent.	MQOSWS::A_COURCHESNE	Un ami pour la vie...	`Mon Mar 30 1992 13:55`	7
	They are asking help on how to developp an agent that would adhere to specification from SNMP op CMIP. The have an hdw piece, they want to developp the code that will be accessible from DECMCC snmp am. Andre
2651.3	SNMP possibilities...	CHRISB::BRIENEN	DECmcc LAN and SNMP Stuff...	`Mon Mar 30 1992 18:35`	13
	Several (SNMP) possibilities: 1. They can learn SNMP and write an agent from scratch (lots of courses on SNMP being offered these days, some actually geared at writing SNMP Agents) 2. Hire a consultant to write an SNMP Agent for them (maybe DEC has a group that would contract this?) 3. Use the Common Agent (assumes their "hdwe piece" runs Ultrix or VMS)... Good luck with the CMIP Agent (unless #3 above applies). Chris
2651.4	OSI AM on its way	TOOK::MATTHEWS		`Thu Apr 02 1992 18:24`	13
	If they want OSI CMIP, there is one in the works. No committed dates. We are looking for agent implementations to test it against. Before we could discuss this much further we would need to get all discussions under non-disclosure and out of the notes files. I would be very interested in how far they have taken the idea. If they have GDMO templates and would like to test against them, I WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED IN TALKING TO THEM. If they are just interested in a philosophical discussion, you can assure then that DEC is working on a generic OSI AM. wally
2651.5	Other options for doing snmp agent...	DANZO::CARR		`Fri Apr 03 1992 09:36`	7
	Many agent vendors (including some here in DEC) have used some generally available snmp source libraries as a starting point for doing their SNMP agent implementation. I believe that the Terminal Server group has used a set of agent sources obtained from CMU as a starting point for their agent. There is also code available from other sources as well, including Jeff Case at SNMP Research.