From owner-agentx@dorothy.bmc.com Wed Oct 18 12:54:27 2000 Received: from tattler.bmc.com (fw-us-hou-1.bmc.com [198.207.223.250]) by ietf.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id MAA29675 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:54:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dorothy.bmc.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tattler.bmc.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e9IGqZd26554; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:52:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dorothy.bmc.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_12836)/8.8.6) id JAA13250 for agentx-list; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rpresuhn@localhost) by dorothy.bmc.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_12836)/8.8.6) id JAA13244; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:46:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Randy Presuhn Message-Id: <200010181646.JAA13244@dorothy.bmc.com> To: agentx@dorothy.bmc.com Subject: Fwd: Free AgentX Java Sub-Agent Toolkit Cc: strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-agentx@dorothy.bmc.com Precedence: bulk List-Id: IETF Agentx Working Group mailing list X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by tattler.bmc.com id e9IGqZd26554 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ietf.org id MAA29675 Hi - A non-subscriber post to the agentx working group mailing list. Subscription instructions are at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/agentx.charter.html ------------------------------------------------------- Randy Presuhn randy_presuhn@bmc.com Voice: +1 408 546-1006 BMC Software, Inc. 1-3141 Fax: +1 408 965-0359 2141 North First Street http://www.bmc.com/ San José, California 95131 USA ------------------------------------------------------- My opinions and BMC's are independent variables. ------------------------------------------------------- > Received: from tattler.bmc.com (tattler.bmc.com [172.17.0.117]) > by dorothy.bmc.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_12836)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA09794 > for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:28:30 -0700 (PDT) > Received: from fw-us-hou1.bmc.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by tattler.bmc.com (8.10.2/8.8.6) with SMTP id e9HHS7S21930 > for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:28:07 -0500 (CDT) > Received: from hansa.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (IDENT:root@hansa [134.169.34.137]) > by mumm.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA22054; > Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:29:11 +0200 (MET DST) > Received: (from strauss@localhost) > by hansa.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA22162; > Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:29:11 +0200 > X-Authentication-Warning: hansa.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de: strauss set sender to strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de using -f > Sender: strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de > From: Frank Strauss > To: agentx@dorothy.bmc.com > Subject: Free AgentX Java Sub-Agent Toolkit > Date: 17 Oct 2000 19:29:10 +0200 > Message-ID: > Lines: 40 > User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > An open-source implementation of an AgentX Java sub-agent toolkit (RFC > 2741) is available at the Jasmin home page > http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/jasmin/ under the GNU General > Public License. > > The Jasmin (JAva Script Mib ImplementatioN) project is a collaboration > of the Technical University Braunschweig (http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/) > and the C&C Research Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd. > (http://www.ccrle.nec.de/). > > JAX allows applications and services to dynamically extend an SNMP > agent by new MIB objects using the AgentX protocol (RFC 2741). The > JAX software consists of > > - a Java class library that represents AgentX connections, sessions, > registrations, and PDUs, and generic classes for MIB structures > like scalar groups, tables, and notifications. > > - a MIB compiler (built as part of the open-source libsmi software) > that allows to create stub classes for the JAX compliant > implementation of a given SMIv1/v2 MIB module. > > Since JAX establishes a high-level sub-agent programming interface and > comes with a MIB compiler, it supports easy and efficent sub-agent > development. > > JAX does not implement AgentX index allocation, capabilties > registration, and makes no use of the AgentX Ping PDU. > > JAX does not contain an AgentX master agent. It has been developed > and tested with the AgentX master agent of the UCD-SNMP project. > > Further documentation of the JAX and Jasmin software distributions and > several related documents are available at the Jasmin home page. > > -- > Frank Strauss strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de > Technical University Braunschweig http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/~strauss/ > Institute of Operating Systems & Computer Networks Phone: +49 531 391-3266 > Bueltenweg 74/75, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany Fax: +49 531 391-5936 >