Splash: SNMP Plus a Lightweight API for SNAP Handling

Author

de Bruijn, Willem ; Moore, Jonathan T. ; Bos, Herbert

Author_Institution

Leiden Univ., Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

23-23 April 2004

Firstpage

743

Abstract

We describe a drop-in replacement for net-snmp, known as ´Splash´ (SNMP Plus a Lightweight API for SNAP Handling), which adds support for efficient mobile agents to the standard SNMP agent. Experiments show that the SNAP (Safe and Nimble Active Packets) mobile agent engine is comparable in speed to SNMP, even for the simple polling scenarios for which SNMP is optimized, yet also provides flexibility that allows it to outperform SNMP in more complex scenarios. Splash allows network operators to select the monitoring paradigm (polling with SNMP, or a mobile agent approach) most appropriate for a given situation.

Keywords

application program interfaces; computer network management; mobile agents; monitoring; protocols; SNAP; SNMP Plus a Lightweight API for SNAP Handling; Safe and Nimble Active Packets; Splash; drop-in replacement; mobile agent engine; monitoring; net-snmp; network operators; polling scenarios; Access protocols; Adaptive systems; Engines; Logic; Mobile agents; Monitoring; Resource management; Safety; Scalability; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2004. NOMS 2004. IEEE/IFIP

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

ISSN

1542-1201

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8230-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOMS.2004.1317761

Filename

1317761