The Simplest SNMP Agent Implementation Using SNMP4J Agent

If you are looking for a very simple SNMP Agent implementation using SNMP4J Agent library, here it .

http://code.google.com/p/springside-sub/source/browse/#svn/trunk/tiny-examples/simple-snmp-agent

Essential Elements

To start an SNMP Agent, I need the following essential elements:

• Daemon information and daemon
• Authentication

With SNMP4J, you can find the following terminologies / mappings:

Authentication	Community
Network Daemon	Transport

BaseAgent

BaseAgent is usually the start point for programming an SNMP4J Agent. And it is a good idea to understand all properties of this class. Interestingly,

• MIBs
• Maanageable Object Server
• Proxy Forwarder

MIBs

  protected SNMPv2MIB snmpv2MIB;
  protected SnmpFrameworkMIB snmpFrameworkMIB;
  protected SnmpTargetMIB snmpTargetMIB;
  protected SnmpNotificationMIB snmpNotificationMIB;
  protected SnmpProxyMIB snmpProxyMIB;
  protected SnmpCommunityMIB snmpCommunityMIB;
  protected Snmp4jLogMib snmp4jLogMIB;
  protected Snmp4jConfigMib snmp4jConfigMIB;
  protected UsmMIB usmMIB;
  protected VacmMIB vacmMIB;