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Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1
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Network Working Group M. Daniele
Request for Comments: 2257 Digital Equipment Corporation
Category: Standards Track B. Wijnen
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.
D. Francisco, Ed.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
January 1998
Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol
Version 1
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction......................................................4
2 The SNMP Framework................................................4
2.1 A Note on Terminology.........................................4
3 Extending the MIB.................................................5
3.1 Motivation for AgentX.........................................5
4 AgentX Framework..................................................6
4.1 AgentX Roles..................................................7
4.2 Applicability.................................................8
4.3 Design Features of AgentX.....................................9
4.4 Non-Goals....................................................10
5 AgentX Encodings.................................................10
5.1 Object Identifier............................................11
5.2 SearchRange..................................................13
5.3 Octet String.................................................14
5.4 Value Representation.........................................14
6 Protocol Definitions.............................................16
6.1 AgentX PDU Header............................................16
Daniele, et. al. Standards Track