About Agent-Manager implementation.

Hi all,

Please clarify me the following. One of our customers have
the following scenario.

Can the same agent be configured as an "agent" as well as a
"manager". In our case we have A as the Manager and B as
the Agent to A and B as the Manager to the Agent C. where
A, B and C are residing on different processors( meaning
different IP addresses).

For example A, B and C are three different modules running on
different processor.
A is manager for B.
A                 ======>     B
(Mgr)                           (Agent)


B is manager for C.
B                 ======>     C
(Mgr)                           (Agent)

If B acts as both the Agent as well as the Manager, then does it listen
on
two different ports or the same port ?

my assumption about this question is as follows:
It can run anyway and it is implementation specific. That is, the
Command
Generator and Command responder applications can share a same dispatcher

or a different one.

Is my assumption correct or wrong ? Please clarify me.

Note:
Please assume that the agent may be of any SNMP version.

Thanks in advance for your time and effort.

Regards,
R.Parasuraman.