Is it possible to set up many SNMP agents managing the same MIB on the same machine?

Hello everybody,

I'm new to net-snmp and I started reading documentation and making some
tests.
However I have some experience with SNMP.

As you can see from the subject of my request, what I am trying to achieve
is something not typical when using SNMP and it is for sure tricky. I hope
to find some of you to have the patience to read my post until the end to
understand what I mean.

Typically SNMP requests are sent to diagnose the status of a target
machine: to achieve this the machine must be running an snmp agent and N
sub agents each managing a different MIB.
In my case the machine answering to SNMP is a "gateway" to N machines (that
don't implement SNMP) and the gateway must manage SNMP informations for
each of these machines. The N machines are identical and the informations
for each are described in the same MIB: as a consequence the gateway must
have N agents (answering on different ports) and N instances of the same
sub-agent implementing the target MIB. Each subagent will be then
configured to connect to its own machine to retrieve informations.
Is it possible to achieve this setup by using net-snmp? Or is it so far
from SNMP purpose that no one thought to this possibility?

Thanks in advance

salvolds

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