Re: Regarding GetBulk

On 30 September 2011 06:11, Pete Snmp <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) We use SNMP v2 for our box.

Are you implementing an agent yourself from scratch?
Or are you using the Net-SNMP agent?


> Our client saying we can implement Views in v2,
> where as we know this is part of v3?

The View-based Access Control mechanism is part of the SNMPv3 framework,
but has been designed in such as way as to cover protocol requests received
using any of the active versions - including SNMPv2c

So it is perfectly reasonable (and common), to configure a multi-version agent
(such as Net-SNMP) to use views with the two community-based protocols.



> 2)Apart from that , I have a doubt regarding Master and Sub-Agent
> implementation !
> There is a standard protocol called AgentX for communication between them.
> As far as the MIB implementation is concerned, I am pretty sure that we dont
> need to bother about this communication.

The Net-SNMP (sub)agent framework was deliberately designed to isolate the
MIB implementation code from the protocol used to receive the request.
So the exact same MIB code can be used within a Master agent (receiving
requests via SNMP) or an AgentX sub-agent (receiving requests via AgentX).
The processing of the request is essentially the same, so the MIB-specific
code can effectively ignore the protocol stuff.   That's handled by
the main agent
(or subagent) framework.

Dave

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