Agents

The agents are only functional if the SNMP daemon is working. In the initialization phase, the agent signs on to the master agent via AgentX socket and passes its MIB to the SNMP daemon.

Agents are event-oriented. The agent goes into a wait loop after initialization. It leaves the loop on arrival of an event that it must process. Requests from the SNMP daemon, timer expiry or the arrival of an agreed signal, are examples of events. The agent goes back into its wait loop after it has processed all existing events.