From: j.onions@xtel.co.UK (Julian Onions)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: ISODE SNMP Upgrade
Date: 23 Sep 91 09:01:20 GMT


The ISODE maintainers are pleased to announce an upgrade for the SNMP
software found in ISODE-7.0. This is an upgrade to just the SNMP
software making negligable changes to the ISODE-7.0 OSI stacks. This is
an interim release of this package and contains several new SNMP
features, listed below.

Bugs should be reported to bug-isode@xtel.co.uk


    The distribution is relative to ISODE 7.0 and should be installed on
    top of that. Full details are in the distribution.


	  Features of UPGRADE-1 to the 4BSD/ISODE 7.0 SNMP Package

1. MIB checking

Mosy has had several bug fixes made.  It now is somewhat "tighter" in its
analysis of MIBs.

2. New MIBs

This summer's batch of MIBs were loaded into the package for the aid of
people writing management station tools.  The default environment now
contains 1717 objects from 27 MIB modules.  The management tools
normally read compiled object information during initialization.
Although this is relatively fast, it can introduce some delay if a large
number of objects are read.  To remedy this, there is a special new form
of MIB compiling requiring virtually zero initialization time.  This
technique is now used by both the snmpi and SNMP-capable gawk programs.

3. 4BSD agent

The previous SNMP agent for 4BSD supported very few writable variables.
The new agent will allow those variables, supported by the 4BSD kernel, and
marked read-write in the Internet-standard MIB, to be set.