domenikos@emass1.enet.dec.com (My name is George Domenikos.) (04/16/91)
Can somebody point me to a document dscribing the actual SNMP calls? I would like to talk to a router that supports SNMP. I have the overall standard document, but it is not clear to me as to what the actual calls are and what kind of information they provide. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance George
stevewi@hpspdra.HP.COM (Steve Witten) (04/18/91)
/ hpspdra:comp.sys.mac.comm / domenikos@emass1.enet.dec.com (My name is George Domenikos.) / 12:54 pm Apr 15, 1991 / > Can somebody point me to a document dscribing the actual SNMP calls? > I would like to talk to a router that supports SNMP. > I have the overall standard document, but it is not clear to me as > to what the actual calls are and what kind of information they provide. > > Any ideas are greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > >George What "calls" you make depend on whose code you are going to use. SNMP only defines the content/semantics of "protocol data units (PDUs)" that accomplish the SNMP "task". It defines no standard language bindings for functions to build/send/receive/decompose those PDU's. I assume you are using a Mac to talk to your router. I can't help you with that. FTP Software (26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880, 617-246-0900) has (or will have shortly) a library for writing SNMP applications on DOS (works using Ethernet or SLIP as well). BTW, SNMP assumes UDP as its transport. =============================================================================== Steve Witten stevewi%hpspdra@hplabs.hp.com Intelligent Networks Operation ...!hplabs!hpspdra!stevewi Hewlett-Packard Co. stevewi@hpspdra.spd.hp.com
kdb@intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (04/20/91)
In article <21460003@hpspdra.HP.COM>, stevewi@hpspdra.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes: > I assume you are using a Mac to talk to your router. I can't help you > with that. FTP Software (26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880, > 617-246-0900) has (or will have shortly) a library for writing SNMP > applications on DOS (works using Ethernet or SLIP as well). InterCon will also have a SNMP management station on the Macintosh called WatchTower. Release date should be within the next couple of months. The station will speak to just about any router via SNMP. Hope this helps. Kurt Baumann 703.709.9890 InterCon Systems Corp. Creators of fine TCP/IP products for the Macintosh
andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh) (04/23/91)
You can get the source code to some rudimentary SNMP tools from lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu in the pub directory via anonymous ftp. "cmu-snmp1.0.tar.Z is about 138K. Contained are the source code to the tools, source for a SNMP library of calls, and man pages for the tools. We use it to test SNMP on boxes that we are evaluating for client recommendation. We may move up to something a little more robust, but heck, you can't beat source. By the way, the source is for BSD, so it would have to be massively ported to the Mac. It may not even be possible. You could use the source as a reference on how to do it though. -- Andrew C. Esh andrew@osa.com Open Systems Architects, Inc. Mpls, MN 55416-1528 Punch down, turn around, do a little crimpin' (612) 525-0000 Punch down, turn around, plug it in and go ...