Hi,

Regarding the Mib development, AdventNet offers you a solution by
providing a
tool MibEditor (GUI Application) through which the various constructs
conforming
to SMIV1 and SMIV2 specifications can be created or modified in a
very short
time.

For more information kindly refer the below URL,

http://www.adventnet.com/products/ja...definemib.html


Regards,
Rajesh
AdventNet Inc.

http://www.adventnet.com

rguardia@indra.es (Riki) wrote in message news:<45814723.0309250741.27c449fb@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
>
> I would like to obtain an advice being based on your experience. The
> fact is that I must develop an SNMP Agent using EMANATE ( from SNMP
> Research ). It must be finished in four or five months. I would like
> to know the effort I will make to do. Is there anyone with experience
> in developing mibs? is one person enough to develop the mibs in four o
> five months?
>
> Any comment will be welcome,
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Ricardo

HI,

Given the following...

On 26 Sep 2003, Riki wrote:
>
>
> Thanks David what you has told me it's very useful. I realise I did
> not give you enough information. As I said, I must develop an agent
> using EMANATE. the agent will be based on SNMPv2c because this is
> version that will use the Manager. I have to implement eigth mibs that
> are already written in ASN.1. Some of them define differents traps
> that must be sent and historical tables where they must be recorded.
> There are not tables with create access.
> The other mibs do not have many read-write objects. Do you think that
> for someone that has never used EMANATE this implementation can take
> several months?
>
> Regarding to the tests, do tou think I should buy a test tool ? how
> much does it cost a test tool (an approach) ?
>
The probability of accomplishing developing the agent in a few months
looks pretty high given that the MIB modules are already defined
with no instance creation and few read-write objects.

Note that the support organization for SNMP Research is pretty
responsive, which should improve the probablity of success.

There are several test packages such as that from Interworking Labs
(www.iwl.com). However, I have not recently evaluated
all of the products that are available. Thus, I cannot give you
comparison of features and their costs.

But, since it appears that the manager application already exists,
then you can start with it, and use the testing software to verify
that all looks good. In general, its not really prudent to use
one management platform or application for testing, since many
are designed to work with agents (or MIB modules) that have flaws.
If you test with just one, then release the product, the agent
may not interoperate with another package that does not operate
with the flaws.

Hope all turns out well for you!

Regards,
/david t. perkins

Riki ...

You may want to look at the steps we take when we implement agents for
customers (http://www.jsnmp.com/services.html#agent_position). While not
necessarily applicable for your situation, it should give you some idea what
is involved. We always build a Gantt chart of all of the steps and make
estimates for the customer from that. I suggest you do the same and make
your estimates from that.

What usually takes the most time is for our customers to deliver a library
for accessing the data. The second is to design and implement the test
plan. If you already have the data access library, then you are well on
your way.

Regards,

Jim Pickering
jSNMP Enterprises
http://www.jsnmp.com




"Riki" wrote in message
news:45814723.0309250741.27c449fb@posting.google.c om...
> Hi,
>
>
> I would like to obtain an advice being based on your experience. The
> fact is that I must develop an SNMP Agent using EMANATE ( from SNMP
> Research ). It must be finished in four or five months. I would like
> to know the effort I will make to do. Is there anyone with experience
> in developing mibs? is one person enough to develop the mibs in four o
> five months?
>
> Any comment will be welcome,
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Ricardo