SNMP Proxy Forwarder Overview

SNMP Proxy Forwarder is a multilingual SNMP application which translates SNMPV3 requests for SNMPv1/v2c agents. Basically, it converts all incoming SNMPv3 requests from the manager to a SNMPv1/v2c request based on the agent type. It then forwards this request to the appropriate agent and gets the response. The response is reconstructed as SNMPv3 response and sent back to the manager.

The SNMP Proxy Forwarder application supports multiple SNMPv3 mangers to communicate with multiple SNMPv1/v2c agents. In such situations, requests from a manager is routed to the appropriate agent and the received response is again given to the same manager.

Working with SNMP Proxy Forwarder

To see how it works, the Proxy Forwarder application should first be configured before it is run. The following tables contain information about routing, user security, and access permissions.

• AgentConfigurationTable
• USMUserTable
• Vacm tables

All these configuration details can be given using the Proxy Forwarder Configuration tool bundled in the product.

For complete information about SNMP Proxy Forwarder, please read the technical documentation.