Re: SNMP + WMI/WBEM

From: Sarika Sharma[MSFT] (sarikas_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:46:22 -0800

SNMP Provider is merely a tool to expose the already existing SNMP
information via WMI. It does not dispense with any SNMP agent/service
functionality 

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"Mohit Tendolkar" <mtendolkar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:881238e2.0402230834.381e7b1a@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am well-acquainted with SNMP, and I am getting acquainted with
> WMI/WBEM.
>
> Cursory browsing through all WMI documentation from Microsoft
> indicates a WMI component called "SNMP provider" using which one can
> translate MIB modules into CIM modules and one can query SNMP
> information using WMI interfaces.
>
> However, what I couldn't get from all that I read was, what is the aim
> of this effort?
>
> Is it that, a windows programmer can "get" information exported by the
> MIBs on the SNMP agent/service running on or more Windows computers by
> using the WMI API instead of using SNMP?
>
> Or,
>
> Is is that a programmer attempting to write a Windows SNMP extension
> agent now does "not" need to write an SNMP extension agent but rather,
> write a WMI component, compile the MIB into the system as a CIM module
> and the Windows SNMP service communicates with the WMI system to
> furnish information for the MIB when SNMP requests are made to it? In
> other words, is this another way to write an SNMP extension agent for
> Windows?
>
> I'd really appreciate if someone can let me know how they used this
> functionality.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mohit

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