SNMP Development and Testing Software

All the SNMP tools are designed to build multithreaded applications in the Windows 2000/XP/NT/Me/98/95 operating systems. This SNMP software is built from the ground up using the most efficient and robust features of the 32-bit multithreaded operating system. LogiSoft's SNMP software does not rely on any Microsoft or third party SNMP API's or services. These SNMP tools are designed to enable the maximum flexibility in software architecture. One can create applications that range from agents (command responders) to manager applications (command generators).

The programming interfaces are modeled very closely to the SNMP requests for comments (RFCs). This approach significantly reduces the learning curve and makes these tools intuitive and easy to understand, use and maintain.

The programming interface is designed to satisfy both the need for rapid development and fine control over the operational details. We provide different sets of tools for different languages. These tools ensure that software developers can fully utilize all the potentials of the language and development environment they are using.

Realizing the fact that the target applications range from graphic user interface and console applications to system services we provide alternative features completely satisfying all these requirements and simplifying the design and development process.

The bottom line is that tools' designers went a long way to create tools that allow you to design and implement software the way you like it to be.

SNMP Tools

• New SNMP Inquisitor v1.1, an SNMP agent testing suite
• New SNMP Builder v3.2 with MIB Compiler for MS VC++ 6 and .NET
• New SNMP Builder v3.1 with MIB Compiler for Borland C++ Builder 4/5
• New SNMP Builder v3.2 with MIB Compiler for MS Visual Basic 5,6 and .NET
• SNMP Toolkit v2.5 for MS VC++ 6 and .NET
• SNMP Toolkit v2.3 for Borland C++ Builder 3/4
• SNMP Toolkit v2.3 for MS Visual Basic 5,6, and .NET

The MIB compiler included in the SNMP Builders makes the MIB compilation process quick and convenient allowing the generation of source code with MIB definitions. This enables C++ and Visual Basic programs to refer to SNMP objects by symbolic names and make table retrievals a single function call.

SNMP C++ class library provides the most flexible, versatile and efficient development environment for C++ development, the SNMP ActiveX control and SNMP COM component provide the most efficient development environment for Visual Basic and other development environments using automation servers.

SNMP Debugging and SNMP Testing

All SNMP tools include SNMP graphic utilities that simplify the SNMP development process significantly. SNMP utilities are also a very powerful investigative tool, allowing the quick learning of how SNMP works. These utilities can trace SNMP messages, sent and received. The SNMP messages are analyzed and displayed on the field level, eliminating a need for protocol analyzers that cost from ten to fifty thousand dollars. The SNMP utilities can also be used in network management software testing, performance measurement, analysis and tuning.

The Sender utility enables the building of SNMP requests and traps, using a built-in graphic SNMP request editor. It allows the testing of concepts before writing the code in C++ or Visual Basic, thus saving a lot of development time.

Comparing to the MIB browsers the utilities provide a much better facility for the software testing because they give a full control over all message fields of a message being sent, such as: header fields, number of variables, order of variables. The Sender utility enables the building of unusual requests that are impossible to generate with MIB browsers: Get-Requests with variables not in a MIB, requests with zero variables, et cetera. These features are very valuable to make software robust.

The possible applications of the SNMP class library go far beyond the network management arena. Because the library has a very modular structure, it can be used in network protocol analysis, emulation and simulation software. These libraries can also be used with proprietary network protocols.

All SNMP tools support SNMPv2c and are backward compatible with the SNMPv1. They are very fast and efficient by design. As an example, one of the features of the tools allows the user to send the same (or different) request(s) to multiple nodes and automatically retransmit them if a reply was not received. This enables the reduction of the network discovery time more than fifty times because the requests are sent concurrently to multiple nodes instead of sending the requests to one node at a time.

All SNMP tools allow the distribution of custom applications royalty free. The development licensing fees include large discounts for additional development licenses. Enterprise and site licenses are also available.

Evaluation copies of the SNMP toolkits are available.

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