SNMP RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EPIC Subsystem for facilitating
communication
between non-SNMP protocols and an SNMP agent
Las Vegas, NV, May 8, 2001 - SNMP Research offers the EMANATE
Protocol Interface Component (EPIC) Subsystem as a solution for
interfacing non-UDP and non-SNMP protocols with SNMP Research's
EMANATE
® and EMANATE
®/Lite multilingual agents (supporting
combinations of SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3). An EPIC allows one
foreign management protocol to submit get-requests and
set-requests into the agent with or without the use of SNMP or
UDP. The entire EPIC Subsystem is made up of EPICs and the EPIC
Adaptation Layer (EAL). The EAL allows for multiple foreign
protocol transactions, including XML, COPS, etc. and is
the layer at which an EPIC integrates into various SNMP Research
products. The EPIC API is consistent across all products, and
operating system-specific instrumentation (such as the transport
interface) is handled at the EAL level.
Using the EAL, the EPIC Subsystem integrates the foreign
management protocol engine with the EMANATE or EMANATE/Lite Agent
in one of the following ways:
- On most UNIX-like operating systems, EPIC information is
conveyed from the application to the agent via UNIX Domain
Sockets.
- On some embedded operating systems, EPIC information is
conveyed with the use of TCP.
- On some operating systems requiring a message passing
paradigm, EPIC information is conveyed using the select()
mechanism.
Regardless of which protocols are used, the application
programmer is generally insulated from these concerns by the
EAL.
Even though SNMP does not yet offer an implementation of
XML, COPS, etc., today, we do offer the EPIC Subsystem,
which allows customers and partners to perform management
requests (from within XML, COPS, etc. server
implementation) by calling the SNMP Research agent code.
The EPIC Subsystem Architecture
The entry point into the SNMP Agent was carefully designed
between the User-based Security Mode (USM) and the View-based
Access Control Module (VACM) layers. This allows authentication
by Transport Layer Security mechanisms, while preserving the VACM
mechanism implemented as part of SNMPv3. View the EPIC Subsystem
architectures for EMANATE and EMANATE/Lite.
Integration
Some of our partners currently
implement projects involving integration of the EPIC Subsystem
with third-party Web servers, such as Apache. EPIC has also been
successfully implemented into a number of customers'
products.
Availability
EPIC is available from SNMP Research. Implementations are
currently available for VxWorks, pSOS, Linux, OSE, 32-bit
Solaris, and AIX.
About SNMP Research
The primary business of SNMP Research International is creating,
licensing, and supporting software for the management of
networks, systems, applications, and legacy devices. Our
objective is to help companies deploy standards-based management
with shorter time-to-market, lower costs, better fidelity to
standards and interoperability with less risk.
We provide innovative solutions for extensible agent, manager
station, and mid-level manager implementations that are based on
SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, SNMPv3, HTTP, and other protocols. SNMP Research
provides products and services worldwide to end-users, Original
Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), value-added resellers, and system
integrators.
For more information about SNMP Research International and
SNMP Research products and services, please visit our Web site at
www.snmp.com.
CONTACT:
John Southwood
Phone: +1 865 579-3311
Fax: +1 865 579-6565
http://www.snmp.com
