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Order Number: BA548--90004
Revision/Update Information: This manual supersedes the Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS SNMP Programming and Reference, Version 5.1.
Software Version:
HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Version 5.5
Operating Systems: OpenVMS I64 Version 8.2 OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.2
Hewlett-Packard Company Palo Alto, California
© Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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The HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS product is the HP implementation of the TCP/IP networking protocol suite and internet services for OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX systems.
A layered software product, TCP/IP Services provides a comprehensive suite of functions and applications that support industry-standard protocols for heterogeneous network communications and resource sharing.
This manual describes the features of the Simple Network Managment Protocol (SNMP) provided with TCP/IP Services. It also describes the extensible SNMP (eSNMP) application programming interface (API) and development environment.
See the HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Installation and Configuration manual for information about installing, configuring, and starting this product.
This manual is for experienced OpenVMS and UNIX system managers and assumes a working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, TCP/IP terminology, and some familiarity with the TCP/IP Services product.
This manual contains the following chapters:
Table 1 lists the documents available with this version of TCP/IP Services.
| Manual | Contents |
|---|---|
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Concepts and Planning |
This manual provides conceptual information about TCP/IP networking on
OpenVMS systems, including general planning issues to consider before
configuring your system to use the TCP/IP Services software.
This manual also describes the manuals in the documentation set, and provides a glossary of terms and acronyms for the TCP/IP Services software product. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Release Notes | The release notes provide version-specific information that supersedes the information in the documentation set. The features, restrictions, and corrections in this version of the software are described in the release notes. Always read the release notes before installing the software. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Installation and Configuration | This manual explains how to install and configure the TCP/IP Services product. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS User's Guide | This manual describes how to use the applications available with TCP/IP Services such as remote file operations, email, TELNET, TN3270, and network printing. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management | This manual describes how to configure and manage the TCP/IP Services product. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management Command Reference | This manual describes the TCP/IP Services management commands. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management Command Quick Reference Card | This reference card lists the TCP/IP management commands by component and describes the purpose of each command. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS UNIX Command Equivalents Reference Card | This reference card contains inforomation about commonly performed network management tasks and their corresponding TCP/IP management and UNIX command formats. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS ONC RPC Programming | This manual presents an overview of high-level programming using open network computing remote procedure calls (ONC RPC). This manual also describes the RPC programming interface and how to use the RPCGEN protocol compiler to create applications. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Guide to SSH | This manual describes how to configure, set up, use, and manage the SSH for OpenVMS software. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Sockets API and System Services Programming | This manual describes how to use the Sockets API and OpenVMS system services to develop network applications. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS SNMP Programming and Reference | This manual describes the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the SNMP application programming interface (eSNMP). It describes the subagents provided with TCP/IP Services, utilities provided for managing subagents, and how to build your own subagents. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Tuning and Troubleshooting | This manual provides information about how to isolate the causes of network problems and how to tune the TCP/IP Services software for the best performance. |
| HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Guide to IPv6 | This manual describes the IPv6 environment, the roles of systems in this environment, the types and function of the different IPv6 addresses, and how to configure TCP/IP Services to access the IPv6 network. |
For additional information about HP OpenVMS products and services, visit the following World Wide Web address:
http://www.hp.com/go/openvms |
For a comprehensive overview of the TCP/IP protocol suite, refer to the book Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, by Douglas Comer.
HP welcomes your comments on this manual. Please send comments to either of the following addresses:
| Internet | openvmsdoc@hp.com |
| Postal Mail |
Hewlett-Packard Company
OSSG Documentation Group, ZKO3-4/U08 110 Spit Brook Rd. Nashua, NH 03062-2698 |
For information about how to order additional documentation, visit the following World Wide Web address:
http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/order |
The name TCP/IP Services means any of the following:
In addition, please note that all IP addresses are fictitious.
The following conventions are used in this manual.
| Ctrl/ x | A sequence such as Ctrl/ x indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while you press another key or a pointing device button. |
| PF1 x | A sequence such as PF1 x indicates that you must first press and release the key labeled PF1 and then press and release another key or a pointing device button. |
| [Return] |
In examples, a key name enclosed in a box indicates that you press a
key on the keyboard. (In text, a key name is not enclosed in a box.)
In the HTML version of this document, this convention appears as brackets, rather than a box. |
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A horizontal ellipsis in examples indicates one of the following
possibilities:
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A vertical ellipsis indicates the omission of items from a code example or command format; the items are omitted because they are not important to the topic being discussed. |
| ( ) | In command format descriptions, parentheses indicate that you must enclose choices in parentheses if you specify more than one. |
| [ ] | In command format descriptions, brackets indicate optional choices. You can choose one or more items or no items. Do not type the brackets on the command line. However, you must include the brackets in the syntax for OpenVMS directory specifications and for a substring specification in an assignment statement. |
| | | In command format descriptions, vertical bars separate choices within brackets or braces. Within brackets, the choices are optional; within braces, at least one choice is required. Do not type the vertical bars on the command line. |
| { } | In command format descriptions, braces indicate required choices; you must choose at least one of the items listed. Do not type the braces on the command line. |
| bold type | Bold type represents the introduction of a new term. It also represents the name of an argument, an attribute, or a reason. |
| italic type | Italic type indicates important information, complete titles of manuals, or variables. Variables include information that varies in system output (Internal error number), in command lines (/PRODUCER= name), and in command parameters in text (where dd represents the predefined code for the device type). |
| UPPERCASE TYPE | Uppercase type indicates a command, the name of a routine, the name of a file, or the abbreviation for a system privilege. |
| Example | This typeface indicates code examples, command examples, and interactive screen displays. In text, this type also identifies URLs, UNIX commands and pathnames, PC-based commands and folders, and certain elements of the C programming language. |
| - | A hyphen at the end of a command format description, command line, or code line indicates that the command or statement continues on the following line. |
| numbers | All numbers in text are assumed to be decimal unless otherwise noted. Nondecimal radixes---binary, octal, or hexadecimal---are explicitly indicated. |
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the de facto industry standard for managing TCP/IP networks. The protocol defines the role of a network management station (NMS) and the SNMP agent. SNMP allows remote users on an NMS to monitor and manage network entities such as hosts, routers, X terminals, and terminal servers.
TCP/IP Services provides support for SNMP Version 2, using the Extensible Simple Network Management Protocol (eSNMP) architecture, under which a single master agent can support any number of subagents. The TCP/IP Services implementation of eSNMP includes a master agent, two subagents, an application programming interface (API), tools used to build additional subagents, startup and shutdown procedures, and text-based configuration files.
This chapter provides an overview of the HP OpenVMS implementation of eSNMP. Topics include:
Figure 1-1 illustrates the SNMP architecture.
Figure 1-1 SNMP Architecture
The SNMP environment consists of the following elements:
For information about configuring and managing the SNMP service, refer
to the HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management guide.
1.2 Request Handling
The eSNMP software manages network communication by having the master agent listen for requests and then passes the requests to the appropriate subagent.
Figure 1-2 illustrates communication between the master agent and subagents.
Figure 1-2 eSNMP Data Flow
The process of communication for a request is illustrated with dashed lines and includes the following steps:
The client component is not provided with TCP/IP Services. To provide access to MIBs and to test SNMP communication, TCP/IP Services provides the following utilities:
These utilities are described in Chapter 4. |
TCP/IP Services does not support the standard SNMP Inform command. |
When they are idle, subagents periodically send a message to port 705 to ensure that the master agent is still running. In Figure 1-2, subagent 1 is sending the esnmp_are_you_there message.
A trap is generated by the subagent and sent to the client. In Figure 1-2, subagent n is generating a trap for the trap client on NMS 2.
The
trap
and
esnmp_are_you_there
routines are described in Section 5.1.
1.3 TCP/IP Services Components for SNMP
Table 1-1 lists the components of SNMP and the command procedures for managing SNMP that are supplied with TCP/IP Services.
| File | Location | Function |
|---|---|---|
| TCPIP$ESNMP_SERVER.EXE | SYS$SYSTEM | Master agent image. |
| TCPIP$OS_MIBS.EXE | SYS$SYSTEM | MIB II subagent image. |
| TCPIP$HR_MIB.EXE | SYS$SYSTEM | Host Resources MIB subagent image. |
| TCPIP$SNMP_REQUEST.EXE | SYS$SYSTEM | Simple MIB browser. |
| TCPIP$SNMP_TRAPSND.EXE | SYS$SYSTEM | Utility for sending trap messages. |
| TCPIP$SNMP_TRAPRCV.EXE | SYS$SYSTEM | Utility for receiving trap messages. |
| TCPIP$ESNMP_SHR.EXE | SYS$SHARE | Image file containing eSNMP application programming interface (API) routines. |
| TCPIP$SNMP_STARTUP.COM | SYS$STARTUP | Command procedure that installs master and subagent images and runs TCPIP$SNMP_RUN.COM. |
| TCPIP$SNMP_SYSTARTUP.COM | SYS$STARTUP | Command procedure initiated by TCPIP$SNMP_STARTUP.COM. Provided for site-specific customizations, such as parameter settings. |
| TCPIP$SNMP_RUN.COM | TCPIP$SYSTEM | Command procedure that starts the master agent and subagents. |
| TCPIP$SNMP_SHUTDOWN.COM | SYS$STARTUP | Command procedure that stops the master agent and subagents. |
| TCPIP$SNMP_SYSHUTDOWN.COM | SYS$STARTUP | Command procedure initiated by TCPIP$SNMP_SHUTDOWN.COM. Provided for site-specific customization, such as parameter settings. |
| TCPIP$EXTENSION_MIB_STARTUP.COM | SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$SNMP] | |
| Command procedure invoked by TCPIP$SNMP_SYSTARTUP.COM to start custom subagents. | ||
| TCPIP$EXTENSION_MIB_SHUTDOWN.COM | SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$SNMP] | |
| Command procedure invoked by TCPIP$SNMP_SYSHUTDOWN.COM to stop custom subagents. | ||
| TCPIP$EXTENSION_MIB_RUN.COM | SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$SNMP] | |
| Command procedure invoked by TCPIP$SNMP_SYSTARTUP.COM when the service is enabled and starts detached processes to run subagents. |
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