RFC 2572 (rfc2572) - Page 2 of 44

Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

RFC 2572           Message Processing and Dispatching           April 1999


   4.1.1. Sending a Request or Notification .......................    7
   4.1.2. Sending a Response to the Network .......................    9
   4.2. Receiving an SNMP Message from the Network ................   11
   4.2.1. Message Dispatching of received SNMP Messages ...........   11
   4.2.2. PDU Dispatching for Incoming Messages ...................   12
   4.2.2.1. Incoming Requests and Notifications ...................   12
   4.2.2.2. Incoming Responses ....................................   14
   4.3. Application Registration for Handling PDU types ...........   15
   4.4. Application Unregistration for Handling PDU Types .........   16
   5. Definitions .................................................   16
   5.1. Definitions for SNMP Message Processing and Dispatching ...   16
   6. The SNMPv3 Message Format ...................................   20
   6.1. msgVersion ................................................   21
   6.2. msgID .....................................................   21
   6.3. msgMaxSize ................................................   21
   6.4. msgFlags ..................................................   22
   6.5. msgSecurityModel ..........................................   24
   6.6. msgSecurityParameters .....................................   24
   6.7. scopedPduData .............................................   24
   6.8. scopedPDU .................................................   25
   6.8.1. contextEngineID .........................................   25
   6.8.2. contextName .............................................   25
   6.8.3. data ....................................................   25
   7. Elements of Procedure for v3MP ..............................   25
   7.1. Prepare an Outgoing SNMP Message ..........................   36
   7.2. Prepare Data Elements from an Incoming SNMP Message .......   31
   8. Intellectual Property .......................................   37
   9. Acknowledgements ............................................   37
   10. Security Considerations ....................................   39
   11. References .................................................   40
   12. Editors' Addresses .........................................   41
   13. Changes From RFC 2272 ......................................   42
   14. Full Copyright Statement ...................................   44


















SNMPv3 Working Group        Standards Track