Network management is essential for the operation and supervision of medium
to large computer networks. The Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) is the standard protocol for network management in the Internet. Ordinary
SNMP agents are mostly monolithic, run in the user-space and often
poll information from the OS kernel. This book examines to what extent the
IETF standard sub-agent protocol AgentX is suitable for the management of
UNIX/Linux kernel components. For this purpose, AgentX sub-agents have
been implemented inside the kernel subsystem they manage. They use the
AgentX protocol...