bsnmp 1.12 review

bsnmp is a miniSNMP daemon

License: BSD License File size: 408K Developer: harti

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bsnmp is a miniSNMP daemon. For a couple of projects that involved controlling software on a couple of machines from a single controlling machine I decided to use SNMP. After looking at several available SNMP implementations I started to implement my own SNMP stuff, because what was available was not really what I needed (for several reasons). The result of this work is bsnmp.

bsnmp consists of the following pieces:
a library libbsnmp that includes ASN.1 handling, the SNMP protocol version V1 and V2C and a number of helper stuff to simplify writing of SNMP agents and clients.
the gensnmptree tool that generates the C- and H-files from an object hierarchy description (.def file).
the gensnmpdef tool that generates an initial .def file from a MIB. This requires the libsmi library.
bsnmpd - the SNMP daemon.
snmp_mibII - an implementation of the standard MIB-II sub-tree.
snmp_ntp - a partial implementation of the experimental NTP MIB.

The bsnmpd daemon implements just the bare minimum that is needed for such a daemon: the system group, parts of the SNMP group and a private tree that does the following:

handling of loadable modules. This allows loading/unloading parts of the tree at runtime or configuration time.
handling of communities. A table that allows loaded modules to create new communities at run-time (ILMI is a consumer of this). This table can be disabled for obvious reasons.
handling trap destinations for V1.
several configuration parameters like the protocol versions to handle, buffer sizes and so on.
tables that manage the UDP and local unix ports the daemon is listening on.
statistics and debugging
All real functionality is implemented via loadable modules and hence the daemon can be used for remote-control functions that have nothing to do with network management.