SNMP version 1 and SNMP version 2 are management protocols
used for easy communication of SNMP information/messages
between the agent and the management stations. The SNMP Agent
Toolkit product suite offers high-level SNMP Java API
to build SNMPv1 agent and SNMPv2c agent that supports
these management protocols.
Key Features and Benefits
In addition to the SNMP agent features,
the other important feature highlights of SNMPv1/v2c agents
are:
Features
Benefits
Community-based authentication
Enables effective administration by restricting only
specified user(s) to access information for the corresponding
community.
Provides Access Control table
Helps to store the relevant details of the communities
and also configure them dynamically without interrupting
the processing of the agent.
Authorization support
Restricts even the authenticated community to access
only particular managed object(s) of the MIB.
Provides View Based Access Control table
Helps to store information of MIB views of the community
and also configure them dynamically without interrupting
the processing of the agent.
SNMPv2c Compliance
Implements managed objects as per SNMPv2-MIB (RFC 3418)
that exposes the behavior of the SNMPv2c entity.
Generates trap during authentication
failure
Notifies all the registered managers when the received
community is not authenticated.
