This Agent Development Kit Programmer's Guide provides a detailed explanation of how to create your own SNMP agent or SMUX subagent to support your private Management Information Base (MIB). A set of application programming interfaces (APIs) are also provided for generating SNMP traps.
Use this manual to understand:
Purpose of This Guide
This guide is particularly helpful for programmers responsible for building an SNMP agent or SMUX subagent to support a private MIB.
The Agent Development Kit Programmer's Guide is organized as follows:
Who Should Read This Guide
How This Guide Is Organized
This book, Agent Development Kit Programmer's Guide, is designed primarily as an online, hypertext guide. If you are reading this as a paper publication, note that to get full use from this guide you should install and access it as an online document via a Web browser that supports HTML 3.0. Netscape Navigator 2.02 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later are recommended. (Information on how to install the online documentation is available in the BEA Manager Release Notes.
To access the interactive version of this document, open the following HTML file in a Web browser:
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The online documentation requires a Web browser that supports HTML 3.0. Netscape Navigator 2.02 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later are recommended.
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The following sections list the documentation provided with the Agent Development Kit, and other publications related to BEA Manager technology.
The Agent Development Kit documentation consists of the following items:
Online Document Considerations
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Documentation Conventions
Related Documentation
Agent Development Kit Documentation
Readers of this guide should also consult the following BEA Manager documentation:
Additional Documentation
A comprehensive list of relevant publications can be found in Appendix A, "SNMP Information," in the Agent Integrator Reference Manual.
The following sections provide information about how to obtain support for the documentation and software.
If you have questions or comments on the documentation, you can contact the BEA Information Engineering Group by e-mail at docsupport@beasys.com. (For information on how to contact Customer Support, refer to the section "Customer Support.")
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Other Related Publications
Contact Information
Documentation Support
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www.beasys.com. You can also contact Customer Support by using the contact information provided on the Customer Support Card, which is included in the product package.