This section lists the SNMP functions and structures. These elements support SNMP for Windows NT.
These functions support the development of SNMP agent applications and SNMP manager applications. An SNMP agent application is an SNMP application entity that responds to queries from SNMP manager applications and generates traps to SNMP manager applications. An SNMP manager application is an SNMP application entity that generates queries to SNMP agent applications and receives traps from SNMP agent applications.
The Manager functions allow multiple manager applications to simultaneously coexist. ISV-developed manager applications use the Manager functions to perform SNMP manager operations. The SNMP Manager functions are implemented as a Win32 DLL and as a single detached process. The DLL and the single detached process interact with one or more ISV-developed manager applications. Miscellaneous utility functions are also available to assist with comparing, copying, and freeing allocated data structures.