RFC 2257 (rfc2257) - Page 3 of 80

Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1

RFC 2257                        AgentX                      January 1998


         7.2.2.3 Subagent Processing of the
                 agentx-GetBulk-PDU...................................62
       7.2.3 Subagent Processing of agentx-TestSet,
             -CommitSet, -UndoSet, -CleanupSet-PDUs...................63
         7.2.3.1 Subagent Processing of the
                 agentx-TestSet-PDU...................................64
         7.2.3.2 Subagent Processing of the
                 agentx-CommitSet-PDU.................................65
         7.2.3.3 Subagent Processing of the
                 agentx-UndoSet-PDU...................................65
         7.2.3.4 Subagent Processing of the
                 agentx-CleanupSet-PDU................................65
       7.2.4 Master Agent Processing of AgentX Responses..............66
         7.2.4.1 Common Processing of All AgentX Response
                 PDUs.................................................66
         7.2.4.2 Processing of Responses to agentx-Get-PDUs...........66
         7.2.4.3 Processing of Responses to
                 agentx-GetNext-PDU and agentx-GetBulk-PDU............67
         7.2.4.4 Processing of Responses to
                 agentx-TestSet-PDUs..................................68
         7.2.4.5 Processing of Responses to
                 agentx-CommitSet-PDUs................................68
         7.2.4.6 Processing of Responses to
                 agentx-UndoSet-PDUs..................................69
       7.2.5 Sending the SNMP Response-PDU............................69
       7.2.6 MIB Views................................................69
     7.3 State Transitions............................................70
       7.3.1 Set Transaction States...................................70
       7.3.2 Transport Connection States..............................71
       7.3.3 Session States...........................................73

   8 Transport Mappings...............................................74
     8.1 AgentX over TCP..............................................74
       8.1.1 Well-known Values........................................74
       8.1.2 Operation................................................74
     8.2 AgentX over UNIX-domain Sockets..............................75
       8.2.1 Well-known Values........................................75
       8.2.2 Operation................................................75

   9 Security Considerations..........................................76

   10 Acknowledgements................................................77

   11 Authors' and Editor's Addresses.................................77

   12 References......................................................78

   13 Full Copyright Statement........................................80



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