The Net-SNMP agent(3)

NAME
The Net-SNMP agent - The snmp agent responds to SNMP queries from management stations.

  Modules

Net-SNMP Agent handler and extensibility API
The basic theory goes something like this: In the past, with the original mib module api (which derived from the original CMU SNMP code) the underlying mib modules were passed very little information (only the truly most basic information about a request).

Maintain a registry of MIB subtrees, together with related information regarding mibmodule, sessions, etc
Trap generation routines for mib modules to use
net-snmp agent related processing

Detailed Description

The snmp agent responds to SNMP queries from management stations.