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6 The Net-SNMP agent - The snmp agent responds to SNMP queries from
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11 Net-SNMP Agent handler and extensibility API
12 The basic theory goes something like this: In the past, with the
13 original mib module api (which derived from the original CMU SNMP
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18 Maintain a registry of MIB subtrees, together with related information
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20 Trap generation routines for mib modules to use
21 net-snmp agent related processing
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24 The snmp agent responds to SNMP queries from management stations.
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