[Erlang Systems]

1 SNMP Introduction

The SNMP development tool provides an environment for rapid agent prototyping and construction. With the following information provided, this tool is used to set up a running multi-lingual SNMP agent:

The advantage of using an extensible agent toolkit is to remove details such as type-checking, access rights, Protocol Data Unit (PDU), encoding, decoding, and trap distribution from the programmer, who only has to write the instrumentation functions, which implement the MIBs. The get-next function only has to be implemented for tables, and not for every variable in the global naming tree. This information can be deduced from the ASN.1 file.

1.1 Scope and Purpose

This manual describes the SNMP development tool, as a component of the Erlang/Open Telecom Platform development environment. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang Development Environment, which is described in a separate User's Guide.

1.2 Prerequisites

The following prerequisites is required for understanding the material in the SNMP User's Guide:

The tool requires Erlang release 4.7 or later.

1.3 About This Manual

In addition to this introductory chapter, the SNMP User's Guide contains the following chapters:

1.4 Where to Find More Information

Refer to the following documentation for more information about SNMP and about the Erlang/OTP development system:


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