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Tutorial Sections

• Command Line Applications
  • snmptranslate: learning about the MIB tree.
  • snmpget: retrieving data from a host.
  • snmpgetnext: retrieving unknown indexed data.
  • snmpwalk: retrieving lots of data at once!
  • snmptable: displaying a table.
  • snmpset: peforming write operations.
  • snmpbulkget: communicates with a network entity using SNMP GETBULK request
  • snmpbulkwalk: retrieve a sub-tree of management values using SNMP GETBULK requests.
  • snmptrap: Sending and receiving traps, and acting upon them.
    • Traps/informs with SNMPv3: Sending and receiving SNMPv3 TRAPs and INFORMs
  • Common command line options:
    • Using and loading MIBS
    • SNMPv3 Options
    • Customized Output Formats
  • Writing mib2c config files
• Agent (snmpd) Configuration
  • Configuring VACM (access control)
• Coding Tutorials
  • Client / Manager Coding Tutorials
    • Writing a simple application
    • Writing a simple asynchronous application
  • Agent Coding Tutorials
    • Writing a mib module to serve information described by an SNMP MIB, and how to compile it into the net-snmp snmpd agent.
    • Writing a Dynamically Loadable Object that can be loaded into the SNMP agent.
    • Writing a Subagent that can be run to attach to the snmpd master agent.
    • Writing a perl plugin to extend the agent using the NetSNMP::agent module.
    • Using mib2c to help write an agent code template for you
      • General mib2c Overview
      • Using the mib2c-update script to recode your code
      • mib2c.mfd.conf tutorial
  • Debugging SNMP Applications and Agent's
    • Debugging output printed using the -D command line option
      • Putting DEBUGMSG tokens in your code
    • Using -Ddump to display packet breakdowns
    • Debugging using GDB