RFC 2741 (rfc2741) - Page 3 of 91


Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1



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RFC 2741                         AgentX                     January 2000


         7.2.1.4. agentx-TestSet-PDU..................................63
         7.2.1.5. Dispatch............................................64
       7.2.2. Subagent Processing.....................................64
       7.2.3. Subagent Processing of agentx-Get, GetNext, GetBulk-PDUs65
         7.2.3.1. Subagent Processing of the agentx-Get-PDU...........65
         7.2.3.2. Subagent Processing of the agentx-GetNext-PDU.......66
         7.2.3.3. Subagent Processing of the agentx-GetBulk-PDU.......66
       7.2.4. Subagent Processing of agentx-TestSet, -CommitSet,
              -UndoSet, -CleanupSet-PDUs..............................67
         7.2.4.1. Subagent Processing of the agentx-TestSet-PDU.......68
         7.2.4.2. Subagent Processing of the agentx-CommitSet-PDU.....69
         7.2.4.3. Subagent Processing of the agentx-UndoSet-PDU.......69
         7.2.4.4. Subagent Processing of the agentx-CleanupSet-PDU....70
       7.2.5. Master Agent Processing of AgentX Responses.............70
         7.2.5.1. Common Processing of All AgentX Response PDUs.......70
         7.2.5.2. Processing of Responses to agentx-Get-PDUs..........70
         7.2.5.3. Processing of Responses to agentx-GetNext-PDU and
                  agentx-GetBulk-PDU..................................71
         7.2.5.4. Processing of Responses to agentx-TestSet-PDUs......72
         7.2.5.5. Processing of Responses to agentx-CommitSet-PDUs....73
         7.2.5.6. Processing of Responses to agentx-UndoSet-PDUs......74
       7.2.6. Sending the SNMP Response-PDU...........................74
       7.2.7. MIB Views...............................................74
     7.3. State Transitions...........................................75
       7.3.1. Set Transaction States..................................75
       7.3.2. Transport Connection States.............................77
       7.3.3. Session States..........................................78
   8. Transport Mappings..............................................79
     8.1. AgentX over TCP.............................................79
       8.1.1. Well-known Values.......................................79
       8.1.2. Operation...............................................79
     8.2. AgentX over UNIX-domain Sockets.............................80
       8.2.1. Well-known Values.......................................80
       8.2.2. Operation...............................................80
   9. Security Considerations.........................................81
   10. Acknowledgements...............................................82
   11. Authors' and Editor's Addresses................................83
   12. References.....................................................84
   13. Notices........................................................86
   Appendix A. Changes relative to RFC 2257 ..........................87
   Full Copyright Statement ..........................................91










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