Getting Started with the Tutorial

• Agent Toolkit Product Installation

• Help documentation for the RI

• Application Specification

This tutorial leads you through the development of dynamic SNMP Agents using the framework and components provided by WebNMS Agent Toolkit. This tutorial is aimed at OEM who wish to instrument their objects to make them SNMP manageable and developers of SNMP Agents. The pre-requisite of this tutorial would be reasonable knowledge in Java programming.

Agent Toolkit Java Edition Product Installation

For running the reference implementation and described tools in this tutorial, WebNMS Agent Toolkit Java Edition must be installed in your machine.  Before reading this tutorial, you should be familiar with the tools (like MIB Editor, MIB Compiler etc.,). For information on these tools, refer Agent Toolkit Java Edition Product Documentation.

HELP Documentation for the RI

To start with, please refer to the "Application Notes" section. And directly move on to the steps involved in running the application and testing the same. The steps have been covered in "Running and Testing the application".

To know how this Reference Implementation was developed, go through the "Steps Involved in Developing the RI" section. The "Created Mib" and "Generated Code" section provides explanation for creation of a simple Agent, starting from the definition of a MIB till compilation of the code. Other sections like Implemented Scalars, Tables and Traps talks about the features supported by the toolkit. On following these steps you can implement the features required for your application and the Agent will respond with the implementation values on request (not the default values).

To have detailed explanation on the terms explained here please refer the Building SNMP Agents section of the WebNMS Agent Toolkit Java Edition Product Help Documentation.

Application Specification