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Agent or Manager?

Do you need an Agent or a Manager? An agent is a software process that responds to queries using the Simple Network Management Protocol to provide status and statistics about a network node. A manager is an application that manages SNMP agents on a network by issuing requests, getting responses, and listening for and processing agent-issued traps.

If you need to manage agents across a network, then view the Manager products page. If you need to create or edit agents, please refer to the Agent products page.

Agent Solutions

SNMP Research offers the following products for creating and editing agents:

CIAgent® is a ready-to-run SNMP agent which supports SNMP and HTTP. This secure agent is built on the EMANATE® Master Agent and includes many extensions for system and application management. CIAgents may be configured to perform policy-based automated actions based on threshold events and commands from management applications. CIAgent provides multiple ready-to-run subagents, SNMP utilities, and MIB tools in binary.

CIAgent® SNMPv3-Only Edition™ is a special version of CIAgent that has been hardened for use in network environments having the most stringent security requirements to protect computing assets from intrusion. All program code for insecure SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c historic protocols is completely removed.

EMANATE® is an industry standard for SNMP agent extensibility. The EMANATE family of products provides developers with a master agent/subagent architecture for C-language and Java™-language environments.

EMANATE® SNMPv3-Only Edition™ is a special version of EMANATE that has been hardened for use in network environments having the most stringent security requirements to protect computing assets from intrusion. All program code for insecure SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c historic protocols is completely removed.

EMANATE®/Lite is a monolithic SNMP agent, which includes an easy-to-use development toolkit for adding MIB extensions to the agent at compile time. The software provides the core SNMP protocol engine that should be installed within each SNMP managed element or device. EMANATE/Lite is ideally suited for use in embedded systems. For information on a non-SNMP protocol interface for EMANATE/Lite, visit the EPIC product page.

EMANATE®/Lite SNMPv3-Only Edition™ is a special version of EMANATE/Lite that has been hardened for use in network environments having the most stringent security requirements to protect computing assets from intrusion. All program code for insecure SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c historic protocols is completely removed.

EMANATE® ONE is a complete package solution available for EMANATE and EMANATE/Lite. When software developers need to add management support to their product using SNMP, Web-based access, CLI, or XML interfaces, EMANATE ONE provides all of the software and tools necessary to rapidly develop an agent with standards-based and custom MIB support.

EMANATE® ONE SNMPv3-Only Edition™ is a special version of EMANATE ONE that has been hardened for use in network environments having the most stringent security requirements to protect computing assets from intrusion. All program code for insecure SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c historic protocols is completely removed.

MIB Products. SNMP Research offers several implemenations of MIBs: Host Resources MIB (RFCs 1514, 2790), Remote Network Monitoring MIB (RFC 1271), and Systems Applications MIB Subagent (RFC 2287). These MIB implementations provide complete implementations of some popular, feature-rich MIBs.

EPIC™ is a protocol interface component for EMANATE and EMANATE/Lite used to develop unified SNMP, XML, CLI, and Web-based management easily, with possibly other protocols. The EPIC CLI (Command Line Interface) and EPIC XML are two ready-to-use EPIC extensions.

DR-Web™ Extensible Agent allows users to access management information in an agent directly from a Web browser. This allows both traditional SNMP management applications and Web browsers to retrieve and configure the information made available by any EMANATE subagent. DR-Web Agent is made to operate with any Web browser and any SNMP manager. This product is available separately or bundled with CIAgent®.

Mid-Level Manager (MLM) functions as both an agent and a manager bringing hierarchical management to SNMP-managed networks. This capability is ideal for large and/or distributed networks. The MLM uses scripts designed to perform routine management functions such as polling. Scripts can aggregate, summarize, and transform data into useful information for reporting to the enterprise manager. Mid-Level Manager is available separately or bundled with CIAgent®.

Service Monitor Agent is designed to determine if a service, such as file transfer, email, or Web page access, is working properly and whether response time is within acceptable parameters. This product works with CIAgent®.

MIBGuide™ is a comprehensive toolset to design and develop multi-protocol accessible agents using a graphical Integrated Development Environment (IDE). MIBGuide/Lite includes the easy-to-use MIBGuide Editor for creating MIB documents.

The (D)TLS Option is available to license Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) support with SNMP agents. Transport Layer Security is the next generation of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and has been added to the SNMPv3 architecture.

The FIPS 140-2 Option embeds a FIPS 140-2 validated OpenSSL cryptographic module into the EMANATE code. The validated OpenSSL FIPS 140-2 module provides the cryptographic services in the EMANATE Agent by replacing the standard cryptographic code available in EMANATE or EMANATE/Lite.

The Proxy Agent Option adds to the agent implementation some additional programming which allows the agent to correctly process non-local context values and to forward packets to other SNMP entities.

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