Running the Secure Agent Example

You can only demonstrate the output of our custom PDU factory if you have an SNMP manager application which can connect to the secure agent. See "Developing an SNMP Manager" for example applications you can use.

The SecureAgent class takes command line arguments to create the list of hosts from which it will refuse SNMP requests. Use the following command to launch the secure agent example:

$ java -classpath classpath SecureAgent [host1..hostN]

Whenever one of the refused hosts sends a request, you should see the message displayed by our custom PDU factory implementation. Type "Control-C" when you are finished running the secure agent.

You can combine message-level security and access control defined by the presence of an ACL file. The ACL file indicates trusted hosts and communities from which messages are accepted. After they are accepted, they are decoded with the message-level security you provide. This lets you provide more precise security based on types of requests or the target variable, as well as any encryption.