SNMP Manager Programmer's Guide

Contents
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7. Sending and Receiving Packets
7. Sending and Receiving Packets
Communicating With NonStop Agents 7-1
Establishing Communication
7-2
Sending Packets
7-3
Receiving Packets
7-5
Communicating With Agents and Other Managers
7-5
Establishing Communication
7-5
Sending Packets
7-6
Receiving Packets
7-7
8. Building Executable Managers
Building Guardian Managers 8-1
Building OSS Managers
8-4
9. Reference Summary
The Sample Managers 9-2
Sample Manager Features
9-2
Sample Manager Files
9-3
Common Utility Functions
9-4
Sample Manager Invocation
9-9
MIB Compiler Invocation
9-16
Library Header Files
9-17
Typedefs
9-18
Packet-Handling Structures
9-18
OID Structure (OBJ_ID_T)
9-18
Encoded-Packet Structure (EBUFFER_T)
9-19
Unencoded-Packet Structure (SNMP_PKT_T)
9-20
Decoding Statistics Structure (SNMP_STATS_T)
9-24
Defines
9-25
Packet-Construction Functions
9-25
Initializing Packets
9-25
Binding MIB Objects
9-28
Releasing Packet Memory
9-34
Interpreting Received Packets
9-34
Packet Encoding and Decoding Functions
9-36
Managing the Encoded-Packet Buffer
9-36
Encoding Packets
9-43
Decoding Packets
9-44
Index