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 <h2>What Is It?</h2>
 Various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol
 including:
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/toolkit/">An
 extensible agent</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/toolkit/">An SNMP
 library</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/commands/">tools to
 request or set information from SNMP agents</a></li>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/commands/snmptrap.html">tools
 to generate and handle SNMP traps</a></li>
 <li>A slew of SNMP related perl modules</li>
 <li>a version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tkmib.jpg">a Tk/perl mib
 browser</a></li>
 </ul>
 <p>Please see our <a href=
 "http://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp">project development
 pages</a> as well.</p>
 <p>Note:&nbsp; Some links in this document are external to this
 Windows help file.</p>
 <h2>History</h2>
 This package was originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University
 and Univerisity of California at Davis SNMP implementations, but
 has been greatly enhanced, ported, fixed, made easier to use and
 barely resembles the original package anymore.<br />
 <br />
 <h2>Distribution</h2>
 Be sure and check out the <a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/#Related">other related software
 project</a> links as well.
 <ul>
 <li>Download:
 <ul>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/download/">http://www.net-snmp.org/download/</a></li>
 <li><a href=
 "ftp://ftp.net-snmp.org/pub/sourceforge/net-snmp/">ftp://ftp.net-snmp.org/pub/sourceforge/net-snmp/</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li>Web page:
 <ul>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/">http://www.net-snmp.org/</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li>Sourceforge Project page:
 <ul>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/project/">http://www.net-snmp.org/project/</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li>GPG Key for signed files (also available on pgp.net servers):
 <ul>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.Net-SNMP.org/net-snmp-admin.asc">http://www.Net-SNMP.org/net-snmp-admin.asc</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li>Mirrors (note that sourceforge download servers are mirrored
 themselves):
 <ul>
 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.freesnmp.com/mirrors/net-snmp/">US:
 ftp://ftp.freesnmp.com/mirrors/net-snmp/</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://rtfm.uni-svishtov.bg/net-snmp/">Bulgaria:
 http://rtfm.uni-svishtov.bg/net-snmp/</a></li>
 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/net-snmp/">Japan:
 ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/net-snmp/</a></li>
 <li><a href=
 "ftp://ftp.mpg.goe.ni.schule.de/pub/internet/net-snmp/">Germany:
 ftp://ftp.mpg.goe.ni.schule.de/pub/internet/net-snmp/</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Documentation</h2>
 <div style="margin-left: 2em;">
 <h2>Introduction/Overview</h2>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial">The net-snmp
 Tutorial</a>,</li>
 <li><a href="readme-README.html">README</a>, <a href=
 "readme-README.snmpv3.html">README.SNMPv3</a>, and <a href=
 "readme-README.win32.html">README.WIN32</a></li>
 <li><a href="readme-INSTALL.html">INSTALL</a> file</li>
 <li><a href="readme-COPYING.html">The copyright</a></li>
 <li><a href="FAQ.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
 <li><a href="Developer_FAQ.html">Developer Frequently Asked
 Questions</a></li>
 <li><a href="readme-NEWS.html">News</a> and <a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/ChangeLog.txt">ChangeLog files</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/projects.html">The Projects
 Page</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/mibs/">MIB files distributed
 with Net-SNMP</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Manual Pages</h2>
 <p>A full list of manual pages can be found in the various sections
 listed in the table of contents; this is merely a summary of the
 most important.</p>
 <ul>
 <li style="list-style: none">
 <h3>General</h3>
 </li>
 <li><a href="man5-snmp_config.5.html">Configuring the software via
 .conf files.</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/agent/">The doxygen
 generated API documentation</a></li>
 </ul>
 <ul>
 <li style=
 "list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside;">
 <h3>The Agent</h3>
 </li>
 <li><a href="man8-snmpd.8.html">snmpd</a></li>
 <li><a href="man5-snmpd.conf.5.html">snmpd.conf</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/agent/index.html">How
 to extend the agent</a><br />
 (plus a <a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/agent/CheckList.html">list of
 things to check</a> in case this doesn't seem to work)
 <h3>The Trap Demon</h3>
 </li>
 <li><a href="man8-snmptrapd.8.html">snmptrapd</a></li>
 <li><a href="man5-snmptrapd.conf.5.html">snmptrapd.conf</a>
 <h3>The Applications</h3>
 </li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpcmd.1.html">snmpcmd: common command line
 arguments</a></li>
 <li><a href="man5-snmp.conf.5.html">snmp.conf</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpconf.1.html">snmpconf: a configuration file
 generator</a></li>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/commands">Applications
 Tutorial</a><br />
 <br /></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpget.1.html">snmpget</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpset.1.html">snmpset</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpwalk.1.html">snmpwalk</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmptrap.1.html">snmptrap</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpbulkwalk.1.html">snmpbulkwalk</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpdelta.1.html">snmpdelta</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpgetnext.1.html">snmpgetnext</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpnetstat.1.html">snmpnetstat</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpstatus.1.html">snmpstatus</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmptable.1.html">snmptable</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmptest.1.html">snmptest</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmptranslate.1.html">snmptranslate</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpusm.1.html">snmpusm</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpdf.1.html">snmpdf</a></li>
 <li><a href="man1-snmpbulkget.1.html">snmpbulkget</a>
 <h3>The Library API</h3>
 </li>
 <li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/toolkit">Library
 Tutorial</a><br />
 <br /></li>
 <li><a href="man3-snmp_api.3.html">snmp_api</a></li>
 <li><a href="man3-snmp_sess_api.3.html">snmp_sess_api</a></li>
 <li><a href="man3-mib_api.3.html">mib_api</a></li>
 <li><a href="man5-variables.5.html">variables</a></li>
 <li><a href="man3-read_config.3.html">read_config</a></li>
 <li><a href="man3-default_store.3.html">default_store</a></li>
 <li><a href="man3-snmp_alarm.3.html">snmp_alarm</a></li>
 <li><a href="man3-snmp_trap_api.3.html">snmp_trap_api</a></li>
 <li><a href="man3-snmp_agent_api.3.html">snmp_agent_api</a></li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <h2>Mailing Lists</h2>
 <div style="margin-left: 2em;">There is one announcement mailing
 list:
 <ul>
 <li><b><a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/lists/announce/">net-snmp-announce</a></b></li>
 </ul>
 There are two main discussion lists:
 <ul>
 <li><b><a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/lists/users/">net-snmp-users</a></b><br />
 for discussion on configuring and using the package, including
 coding issues for user-developed applications (clients, managers,
 MIB modules, etc).</li>
 <li><b><a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/lists/coders/">net-snmp-coders</a></b><br />

 for discussion on development of code that will be shipped as part
 of the package.</li>
 </ul>
 <p>Please do <b>NOT</b> post messages to both lists. This just
 increases the support load, annoys the developers and makes it less
 likely that your query will be answered. If in doubt. post to the
 net-snmp-users list. None of the other project mailing lists are
 suitable for general posting - please regard these as "read-only"
 lists.</p>
 <p>See sourceforge.net's <a href=
 "http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=12694">mailing list
 instructions</a> for further details, and to subscribe (or
 unsubscribe) to individual lists.<br />
 Note that messages for non-subscribers will be held for approval
 before appearing on the list. This is purely intended to stem the
 recent flood of spam email, and is not meant to deter requests for
 assistance or information.</p>
 </div>
 <div style="margin-left: 2em;">Also, stop by the #net-snmp IRC
 channel on the <a href="http://www.freenode.net/">freenode.net</a>
 IRC servers to gather, mingle, and chat. At least 3 of the core
 developers are known to hang out there regularily.</div>
 <a name="Contacting" id="Contacting"></a>
 <h2>Contacting the Authors and Submitting Bug Reports</h2>
 <div style="margin-left: 2em;">There are many authors from around
 the net working on the project. To report a bug, see the <a href=
 "http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=12694">net-snmp bugs
 database</a>. For support, please mail a note to our "users
 discussion mailing list" at <a href=
 "mailto:net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net">net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>.</div>
 <a name="Helping" id="Helping"></a>
 <h2>Helping Out!</h2>
 <div style="margin-left: 2em;">Want to help? There are many
 <a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/projects.html">projects</a> that
 need to be tackled to make this software better. To help us out,
 <a href=
 "http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders">join
 the net-snmp-coders mailing list</a>, announce what you're wanting
 to work on (to make sure its not being done and won't conflict with
 someone elses work) and start writing! Submit your ideas,
 questions, patches etc. to the net-snmp-coders list as you come up
 with them.</div>
 <br />
 <div style="margin-left: 2em;">Contributions to the Net-SNMP source
 code in any form are greatly appreciated. We expect the parties
 providing such contributions to have the right to contribute them
 to the Net-SNMP project or that the parties that do have the right
 have directed the person submitting the contribution to do so. In
 addition, all contributors need to be aware that if the
 contribution is accepted and incorporated into the Net-SNMP
 project, it will be redistributed under the terms of the license
 agreement used for the entire body of work that comprises the
 Net-SNMP project (see the <a href=
 "http://www.net-snmp.org/COPYING.txt">COPYING</a> file for details;
 in summary BSD-like <em>not</em> GPL or LGPL). If this license
 agreement ever changes the contribution will continue to be
 released under any new licenses as well. Thank you, in advance, for
 your gracious contributions.</div>
 <a name="Related" id="Related"></a>
 <h2>Related Software and Information</h2>
 <div style="margin-left: 2em;">
 <h3>Software</h3>
 <ul>
 <li><a href=
 "http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensnmp/">OpenSNMP:</a> Our
 sister SNMPv3 reference release: A C++, threaded, modular snmpv3
 reference implementation.</li>
 <li><a href="http://net-policy.sourceforge.net/">Net-Policy</a>:
 Net-Policy is a highly-scalable, role-and-policy based network
 management system. It distrubutes configuration to a network
 primarily through the SNMP protocol. (Its initial configuration
 mechanisms are designed for IPsec VPN management.) Stop configuring
 your SNMP agents one host at a time!</li>
 <li><a href=
 "http://sourceforge.net/projects/snarl-snmp/">snarl-snmp</a>: snarl
 (Snmp based Network Application for Remote Logging and monitoring)
 is an active MIB module for net-snmp-5.0.3 and higher to actively
 monitor dynamic web applications. snmp traps are sent and escalated
 on alarms</li>
 <li><a href="http://netsnmpj.sourceforge.net/">netsnmpj</a>:
 NetSNMPJ is a open source java library that implements a java API
 around the Net-SNMP code base.</li>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/jasmin/index.html">Jasmin:</a>
 A DISMAN-SCRIPT-MIB implementation. This is a third party MIB
 module that implements the DISMAN-SCRIPT-MIB for use with a the
 Net-SNMP agent. The implementation supports multiple languages and
 runtime systems and A script MIB extensibility protocol (SMX) to
 plugin additional runtime systems.</li>
 <li><a href="http://fetchlog.sourceforge.net/">Fetchlog</a>: The
 fetchlog utility fetches and converts the last new messages of a
 logfile similar to tail. Together with Net-SNMP it can be used to
 look in remote logfiles or to monitor logfiles, for example with
 <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">Nagios</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="http://snmptt.sourceforge.net/">SNMPTT</a>: SNMPTT is
 a SNMP trap handler written in Perl for use with the NET-SNMP
 snmptrapd program. Received traps are translated into friendly
 messages using variable substitution.</li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Other sources of information about SNMP in general</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>The <a href=
 "http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.protocols.snmp.html">
 comp.protocols.snmp FAQ</a>.</li>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.simple-times.org/pub/simple-times/issues/">The Simple
 Times</a> -- A quarterly to yearly journal about SNMP</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.mibdepot.com/">The MIB Depot</a>: A useful
 site for finding and downloading MIBs</li>
 <li>A <a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/c64test.html">Counter Test
 Mib</a> module to test 32 and 64 bit counters.</li>
 </ul>
 <h3>IETF and SNMP protocol standards related information</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>The <a href="http://www.ietf.org">main IETF web page.</a></li>
 <li>The <a href=
 "http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/snmpv3/">SNMPv3 web
 page.</a></li>
 <li>The <a href="http://www.scguild.com/agentx/">agentx web
 page</a>. (AgentX is a subagent protocol which net-snmp
 supports)</li>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/eos-charter.html">The Evolution
 of SNMP (EoS) Working Group</a> information. This is where future
 extensions to SNMP are being designed.</li>
 <li><a href=
 "http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/sming-charter.html">The SMI Next
 Generation (sming) Working Group</a> information. This is where
 future changes to the SMI language are being defined. (SMI is the
 language in which MIBs are written).</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <br />
 <br />
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	<body>
	<img style="width: 600px; height: 171px;" alt="Net-SNMP Logo" src=
	"net-snmp-4.2-800.jpg" /><br />
	<br />
	<h2>What Is It?</h2>
	Various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol
	including:
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/toolkit/">An
	extensible agent</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/toolkit/">An SNMP
	library</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/commands/">tools to
	request or set information from SNMP agents</a></li>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/commands/snmptrap.html">tools
	to generate and handle SNMP traps</a></li>
	<li>A slew of SNMP related perl modules</li>
	<li>a version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tkmib.jpg">a Tk/perl mib
	browser</a></li>
	</ul>
	<p>Please see our <a href=
	"http://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp">project development
	pages</a> as well.</p>
	<p>Note:  Some links in this document are external to this
	Windows help file.</p>
	<h2>History</h2>
	This package was originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University
	and Univerisity of California at Davis SNMP implementations, but
	has been greatly enhanced, ported, fixed, made easier to use and
	barely resembles the original package anymore.<br />
	<br />
	<h2>Distribution</h2>
	Be sure and check out the <a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/#Related">other related software
	project</a> links as well.
	<ul>
	<li>Download:
	<ul>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/download/">http://www.net-snmp.org/download/</a></li>
	<li><a href=
	"ftp://ftp.net-snmp.org/pub/sourceforge/net-snmp/">ftp://ftp.net-snmp.org/pub/sourceforge/net-snmp/</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>Web page:
	<ul>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/">http://www.net-snmp.org/</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>Sourceforge Project page:
	<ul>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/project/">http://www.net-snmp.org/project/</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>GPG Key for signed files (also available on pgp.net servers):
	<ul>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.Net-SNMP.org/net-snmp-admin.asc">http://www.Net-SNMP.org/net-snmp-admin.asc</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>Mirrors (note that sourceforge download servers are mirrored
	themselves):
	<ul>
	<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freesnmp.com/mirrors/net-snmp/">US:
	ftp://ftp.freesnmp.com/mirrors/net-snmp/</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://rtfm.uni-svishtov.bg/net-snmp/">Bulgaria:
	http://rtfm.uni-svishtov.bg/net-snmp/</a></li>
	<li><a href="ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/net-snmp/">Japan:
	ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/net-snmp/</a></li>
	<li><a href=
	"ftp://ftp.mpg.goe.ni.schule.de/pub/internet/net-snmp/">Germany:
	ftp://ftp.mpg.goe.ni.schule.de/pub/internet/net-snmp/</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	</ul>
	<h2>Documentation</h2>
	<div style="margin-left: 2em;">
	<h2>Introduction/Overview</h2>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial">The net-snmp
	Tutorial</a>,</li>
	<li><a href="readme-README.html">README</a>, <a href=
	"readme-README.snmpv3.html">README.SNMPv3</a>, and <a href=
	"readme-README.win32.html">README.WIN32</a></li>
	<li><a href="readme-INSTALL.html">INSTALL</a> file</li>
	<li><a href="readme-COPYING.html">The copyright</a></li>
	<li><a href="FAQ.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
	<li><a href="Developer_FAQ.html">Developer Frequently Asked
	Questions</a></li>
	<li><a href="readme-NEWS.html">News</a> and <a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/ChangeLog.txt">ChangeLog files</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/projects.html">The Projects
	Page</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/mibs/">MIB files distributed
	with Net-SNMP</a></li>
	</ul>
	<h2>Manual Pages</h2>
	<p>A full list of manual pages can be found in the various sections
	listed in the table of contents; this is merely a summary of the
	most important.</p>
	<ul>
	<li style="list-style: none">
	<h3>General</h3>
	</li>
	<li><a href="man5-snmp_config.5.html">Configuring the software via
	.conf files.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/agent/">The doxygen
	generated API documentation</a></li>
	</ul>
	<ul>
	<li style=
	"list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside;">
	<h3>The Agent</h3>
	</li>
	<li><a href="man8-snmpd.8.html">snmpd</a></li>
	<li><a href="man5-snmpd.conf.5.html">snmpd.conf</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/agent/index.html">How
	to extend the agent</a><br />
	(plus a <a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/agent/CheckList.html">list of
	things to check</a> in case this doesn't seem to work)
	<h3>The Trap Demon</h3>
	</li>
	<li><a href="man8-snmptrapd.8.html">snmptrapd</a></li>
	<li><a href="man5-snmptrapd.conf.5.html">snmptrapd.conf</a>
	<h3>The Applications</h3>
	</li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpcmd.1.html">snmpcmd: common command line
	arguments</a></li>
	<li><a href="man5-snmp.conf.5.html">snmp.conf</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpconf.1.html">snmpconf: a configuration file
	generator</a></li>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/commands">Applications
	Tutorial</a><br />
	<br /></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpget.1.html">snmpget</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpset.1.html">snmpset</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpwalk.1.html">snmpwalk</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmptrap.1.html">snmptrap</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpbulkwalk.1.html">snmpbulkwalk</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpdelta.1.html">snmpdelta</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpgetnext.1.html">snmpgetnext</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpnetstat.1.html">snmpnetstat</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpstatus.1.html">snmpstatus</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmptable.1.html">snmptable</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmptest.1.html">snmptest</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmptranslate.1.html">snmptranslate</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpusm.1.html">snmpusm</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpdf.1.html">snmpdf</a></li>
	<li><a href="man1-snmpbulkget.1.html">snmpbulkget</a>
	<h3>The Library API</h3>
	</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/toolkit">Library
	Tutorial</a><br />
	<br /></li>
	<li><a href="man3-snmp_api.3.html">snmp_api</a></li>
	<li><a href="man3-snmp_sess_api.3.html">snmp_sess_api</a></li>
	<li><a href="man3-mib_api.3.html">mib_api</a></li>
	<li><a href="man5-variables.5.html">variables</a></li>
	<li><a href="man3-read_config.3.html">read_config</a></li>
	<li><a href="man3-default_store.3.html">default_store</a></li>
	<li><a href="man3-snmp_alarm.3.html">snmp_alarm</a></li>
	<li><a href="man3-snmp_trap_api.3.html">snmp_trap_api</a></li>
	<li><a href="man3-snmp_agent_api.3.html">snmp_agent_api</a></li>
	</ul>
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	<h2>Mailing Lists</h2>
	<div style="margin-left: 2em;">There is one announcement mailing
	list:
	<ul>
	<li><b><a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/lists/announce/">net-snmp-announce</a></b></li>
	</ul>
	There are two main discussion lists:
	<ul>
	<li><b><a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/lists/users/">net-snmp-users</a></b><br />
	for discussion on configuring and using the package, including
	coding issues for user-developed applications (clients, managers,
	MIB modules, etc).</li>
	<li><b><a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/lists/coders/">net-snmp-coders</a></b><br />

	for discussion on development of code that will be shipped as part
	of the package.</li>
	</ul>
	<p>Please do <b>NOT</b> post messages to both lists. This just
	increases the support load, annoys the developers and makes it less
	likely that your query will be answered. If in doubt. post to the
	net-snmp-users list. None of the other project mailing lists are
	suitable for general posting - please regard these as "read-only"
	lists.</p>
	<p>See sourceforge.net's <a href=
	"http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=12694">mailing list
	instructions</a> for further details, and to subscribe (or
	unsubscribe) to individual lists.<br />
	Note that messages for non-subscribers will be held for approval
	before appearing on the list. This is purely intended to stem the
	recent flood of spam email, and is not meant to deter requests for
	assistance or information.</p>
	</div>
	<div style="margin-left: 2em;">Also, stop by the #net-snmp IRC
	channel on the <a href="http://www.freenode.net/">freenode.net</a>
	IRC servers to gather, mingle, and chat. At least 3 of the core
	developers are known to hang out there regularily.</div>
	<a name="Contacting" id="Contacting"></a>
	<h2>Contacting the Authors and Submitting Bug Reports</h2>
	<div style="margin-left: 2em;">There are many authors from around
	the net working on the project. To report a bug, see the <a href=
	"http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=12694">net-snmp bugs
	database</a>. For support, please mail a note to our "users
	discussion mailing list" at <a href=
	"mailto:net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net">net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>.</div>
	<a name="Helping" id="Helping"></a>
	<h2>Helping Out!</h2>
	<div style="margin-left: 2em;">Want to help? There are many
	<a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/projects.html">projects</a> that
	need to be tackled to make this software better. To help us out,
	<a href=
	"http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders">join
	the net-snmp-coders mailing list</a>, announce what you're wanting
	to work on (to make sure its not being done and won't conflict with
	someone elses work) and start writing! Submit your ideas,
	questions, patches etc. to the net-snmp-coders list as you come up
	with them.</div>
	<br />
	<div style="margin-left: 2em;">Contributions to the Net-SNMP source
	code in any form are greatly appreciated. We expect the parties
	providing such contributions to have the right to contribute them
	to the Net-SNMP project or that the parties that do have the right
	have directed the person submitting the contribution to do so. In
	addition, all contributors need to be aware that if the
	contribution is accepted and incorporated into the Net-SNMP
	project, it will be redistributed under the terms of the license
	agreement used for the entire body of work that comprises the
	Net-SNMP project (see the <a href=
	"http://www.net-snmp.org/COPYING.txt">COPYING</a> file for details;
	in summary BSD-like <em>not</em> GPL or LGPL). If this license
	agreement ever changes the contribution will continue to be
	released under any new licenses as well. Thank you, in advance, for
	your gracious contributions.</div>
	<a name="Related" id="Related"></a>
	<h2>Related Software and Information</h2>
	<div style="margin-left: 2em;">
	<h3>Software</h3>
	<ul>
	<li><a href=
	"http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensnmp/">OpenSNMP:</a> Our
	sister SNMPv3 reference release: A C++, threaded, modular snmpv3
	reference implementation.</li>
	<li><a href="http://net-policy.sourceforge.net/">Net-Policy</a>:
	Net-Policy is a highly-scalable, role-and-policy based network
	management system. It distrubutes configuration to a network
	primarily through the SNMP protocol. (Its initial configuration
	mechanisms are designed for IPsec VPN management.) Stop configuring
	your SNMP agents one host at a time!</li>
	<li><a href=
	"http://sourceforge.net/projects/snarl-snmp/">snarl-snmp</a>: snarl
	(Snmp based Network Application for Remote Logging and monitoring)
	is an active MIB module for net-snmp-5.0.3 and higher to actively
	monitor dynamic web applications. snmp traps are sent and escalated
	on alarms</li>
	<li><a href="http://netsnmpj.sourceforge.net/">netsnmpj</a>:
	NetSNMPJ is a open source java library that implements a java API
	around the Net-SNMP code base.</li>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/jasmin/index.html">Jasmin:</a>
	A DISMAN-SCRIPT-MIB implementation. This is a third party MIB
	module that implements the DISMAN-SCRIPT-MIB for use with a the
	Net-SNMP agent. The implementation supports multiple languages and
	runtime systems and A script MIB extensibility protocol (SMX) to
	plugin additional runtime systems.</li>
	<li><a href="http://fetchlog.sourceforge.net/">Fetchlog</a>: The
	fetchlog utility fetches and converts the last new messages of a
	logfile similar to tail. Together with Net-SNMP it can be used to
	look in remote logfiles or to monitor logfiles, for example with
	<a href="http://www.nagios.org/">Nagios</a>.</li>
	<li><a href="http://snmptt.sourceforge.net/">SNMPTT</a>: SNMPTT is
	a SNMP trap handler written in Perl for use with the NET-SNMP
	snmptrapd program. Received traps are translated into friendly
	messages using variable substitution.</li>
	</ul>
	<h3>Other sources of information about SNMP in general</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>The <a href=
	"http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.protocols.snmp.html">
	comp.protocols.snmp FAQ</a>.</li>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.simple-times.org/pub/simple-times/issues/">The Simple
	Times</a> -- A quarterly to yearly journal about SNMP</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.mibdepot.com/">The MIB Depot</a>: A useful
	site for finding and downloading MIBs</li>
	<li>A <a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/c64test.html">Counter Test
	Mib</a> module to test 32 and 64 bit counters.</li>
	</ul>
	<h3>IETF and SNMP protocol standards related information</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>The <a href="http://www.ietf.org">main IETF web page.</a></li>
	<li>The <a href=
	"http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/snmpv3/">SNMPv3 web
	page.</a></li>
	<li>The <a href="http://www.scguild.com/agentx/">agentx web
	page</a>. (AgentX is a subagent protocol which net-snmp
	supports)</li>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/eos-charter.html">The Evolution
	of SNMP (EoS) Working Group</a> information. This is where future
	extensions to SNMP are being designed.</li>
	<li><a href=
	"http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/sming-charter.html">The SMI Next
	Generation (sming) Working Group</a> information. This is where
	future changes to the SMI language are being defined. (SMI is the
	language in which MIBs are written).</li>
	</ul>
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