How This Book Is Organized

This manual contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Introduction to the System Management Agent provides an introduction to the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the System Management Agent (SMA).

Chapter 2, Creating Modules provides basic guidelines for creating System Management Agent modules.

Chapter 3, Data Modeling discusses the handling of data in scalar form and in tables.

Chapter 4, Storing Module Data explains how to store module data that is preserved when the agent is restarted.

Chapter 5, Implementing Alarms explains how to implement alarms in modules.

Chapter 6, Deploying Modules discusses the ways to deploy your module, as a subagent or a dynamically loaded module.

Chapter 7, Multiple Instance Modules describes how to implement a module to allow more than one instance of the module to run on a host.

Chapter 8, Long–Running Data Collection discusses the ways that you can enable a module to collect data over a long period of time.

Chapter 9, Entity MIB describes the Entity MIB and its API functions.

Chapter 10, Migration of Solstice Enterprise Agents to the System Management Agent contains information for developers who want to migrate an SEA subagent from Solstice Enterprise Agents to use in the System Management Agent.

Appendix A, SMA Resources lists System Management Agent resources that you might find helpful.

Appendix B, MIBs Implemented in SMA lists the MIBs that are included in the System Management Agent.

Glossary contains definitions of terms that are used in this manual.