James R. Thomas

These days it's difficult for anyone involved in IT management to avoid SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). It has become the standard management interface for most devices attached to the network. Yet even with its wide adoption, SNMP is sometimes viewed as a "necessary evil" and is thought of as somewhat of a black art. This article will show you how simple SNMP really is, and how you can use it from within the .NET Framework. In this two-part series, I will define an interoperability interface to the WinSNMP API using the features of the .NET interoperability namespace. Then I will create an SNMP trap handler to receive SNMP traps and display them to the console. WinSNMP The WinSNMP API is a very robust implementation of the SNMP-related RFCs (requests for comments). It supports SNMP v1 and v2c, and implements RFC 2089, which specifies how to convert v1 pro... (more)

.NET Interop with SNMP

In Part 1 of this series (DNDJ, Vol. 1, issue 5), I described the steps necessary to build a .NET interoperability library to communicate with the Windows SNMP stack. In this article I will build on that foundation by creating the necessary code to support an application capable of receiving and displaying SNMP traps, commonly called an SNMP trap handler. As in Part 1, I will just touch on the more interesting parts of the code and leave you to look at the code to get a complete picture. All of the code for both articles can be downloaded from www.sys-con.com/dotnet/sourcec.cfm. ... (more)