Basic questions about SNMP
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Hi, I'm learning about SNMP, and writing some applications using it. I have some basic questions about the protocol:
- Do the agents store its state on the device itself?
- If there is a trap set on an agent, can you do a poll on the same OID to get the same information?
- Without using a mib file, is there a way to query a device for all of its information at once? If not, and you're writing your own customized manager, do you have to know the structure of what it reports up front?
- If you're setting up an agent to report, is there usually a way to control the frequency of how often it sends a trap? Or does it usually send a trap as often as some condition is satisfied?
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