Eogogics

SNMP Agent software developers.

After an Enterprise’s MIB design is finalized and fully validated, the next task is Agent software development. A number of issues need to be considered in selecting a development kit.

• Targeted operating system (or systems)
• Pre-existence of SNMP agents on those platforms

• Embedded platforms or not
• Tool cost vs. time-to-market (and market opportunity cost)
• Protocol validation issues

Once a tool is selected, many common coding issues will be encountered. This intensive, one-day tutorial will prepare you to deal with these issues and allow you to proceed quickly to a deliverable product. Example topics include choosing how to best access and manage MIB-related data, and the number (and purposes) of agent code threads that may be needed. We will reveal a number of very surprising problems drawn from our own extensive SNMP experience related to deployed agents, followed by a discussion of agent testing strategies, descriptions of specific tests, and the presentation of a comprehensive test plan from a past project. You will learn the important details of syntax encoding for “get”, “set”, “trap” and other message types. The course will conclude with the review of a checklist for productizing Enterprise MIBs and agents.