| SNMP Research has announced MIBGuide, a comprehensive toolset to design and develop multi-protocol accessible agents using a graphical Integrated Development Environment (IDE). MIBGuide (Management Information Base Graphical User Integrated Development Environment) is an application suite designed to ease the burden of creating MIB documents and developing, testing, and deploying multi-protocol accessible agents. MIBGuide combines Java and XML technology with SNMP Research's many years of Internet Framework network management expertise to provide a comprehensive tool for agent development.
SNMP has developed the "five-step method" for agent development that employs automatic code generation tools that deploy an agent with very little hand-coding necessary. Now, with the addition of MIBGuide to SNMP Research's extensive product line, developers may never again have to write a MIB document by hand. Plus, because the MIB is used to model data, the agent can be accessed using SNMP, CLI, XML, HTTP, and other protocols without any additional coding.
MIBGuide gives the developer an easy-to-use framework for modeling, coding, and testing a fully functional, multi-protocol accessible agent. Benefits of MIBGuide include the provisioning of multi-protocol access to management information; a shortening of the time it takes to deploy an agent. Further, it can cut the time it takes to develop an agent, eases the development of a MIB by removing the burden of knowing SMIv2 rules and yet adhering to them.
MIBGuide is composed of a MIB editor, a MIB compiler, an Integrated Development Environment, and a MIB browser. MIBGuide Editor is a graphical interface for composing, editing, and saving SMIv2 compliant MIB documents. MIBGuide Editor allows the developer to focus on the data to be managed, which will dramatically speed up the development process. MIBGuide Editor provides a point-and-click interface and easy-to-use wizards while supporting even the most advanced MIB documents.
MIBGuide Compiler allows developers to use either C or Java APIs to produce a working agent extension. It provides choices for automatically generating code for stable storage, set routines, robust table support, and others. MIBGuide uses an off-the-shelf IDE that allows the developer to edit the routines automatically generated by the MIBGuide Compiler which support "get" operations (for remote monitoring), "set" operations (for remote configuration), and "notify" operations (for notifications or traps).
MIBGuide Browser provides a "test as you go" approach for testing agent implementations, making an often difficult step much easier. MIBGuide is supported on most operating systems including Linux, Windows and UNIX.
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