First off, you need to write a mib module first before you can do this part of the tutorial. We assume you have read and completed the mib module portion of the toolkit tutorial. The AgentX library support we offer provides an easy-to-use interface that allows the same mib module API to be used in either the core agent or in a agentx subagent, and thus your code can be designed to operate in either mode [no re-writing required!].  

First off, you need to write a mib module first before you can do this part of the tutorial. We assume you have read and completed the [[TUT:Writing_a_MIB_Module | mib module portion]] of the toolkit tutorial. The AgentX library support we offer provides an easy-to-use interface that allows the same mib module API to be used in either the core agent or in a agentx subagent, and thus your code can be designed to operate in either mode [no re-writing required!].  

When you're first testing your code, we do recommend compiling it directly into the main agent even if you're going to use AgentX later. Compiling it directly into the master agent often makes debugging a little bit easier and takes the AgentX protocol out of the mix just to be sure. Once it's working right in the master agent, then it's easy to simply remove the support from the master agent and make a subagent instead [and, again, the nifty thing is that the mib API code doesn't need to change]  

When you're first testing your code, we do recommend compiling it directly into the main agent even if you're going to use AgentX later. Compiling it directly into the master agent often makes debugging a little bit easier and takes the AgentX protocol out of the mix just to be sure. Once it's working right in the master agent, then it's easy to simply remove the support from the master agent and make a subagent instead [and, again, the nifty thing is that the mib API code doesn't need to change]