HARDWARE INDEPENDENT SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL BASED ON A GENERIC DATA COLLECTION SCHEM

摘要

[0066] A method and/or a system for a generic agent in a managed network are disclosed. In one embodiment, method of a generic simple network management protocol (SNMP) module on a network node includes communicating with a device succeedingly coupled to the network node using a data collector module assigned to the device and translating a data passed between the device and a management module managing the device based on a simple network management protocol. In another embodiment, a method of a data collector module associated with a SNMP module includes loading the data collector module based on at least an object name and a data collector module name defined in a configuration file and communicating with a device having an object matching the object name to access the object using the data collector module.