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Expand Up @@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ This software is intended for testing SNMP Managers against a large number
of SNMP Agents that represent a potentially very large network populated
with different kinds of SNMP-capable devices.

Typical use case for this software starts with recording a snapshot of
SNMP objects of donor Agents into text files using "snmprec" tool.
Another option is to generate snapshots directly from MIB files with
"mib2dev" tool. The latter appears useful whenever you do not posess a
physical donor device. Then Simulator daemon would be run over the
snapshots so that it could respond to SNMP queries in the same way as
Typical use case for this software starts with recording a snapshot of
SNMP objects of donor Agents into text files using "snmprec" tool.
Another option is to generate snapshots directly from MIB files with
"mib2dev" tool. The latter appears useful whenever you do not posess
a physical donor device. Then Simulator daemon would be run over the
snapshots so that it could respond to SNMP queries in the same way as
donor SNMP Agents did at the time of recording.

Technically, SNMP Simulator is a multi-context SNMP Agent. That means that
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(logically bound to SNMP context) to access particular set of Managed
Objects.

It is also possible with the SNMP Simulator software to vary responses
based on Manager's transport address, not only SNMPv3 context or SNMPv1/v2c
community names.

Current Simulator version supports trivial SNMP SET operations in volatile
mode meaning that all previously SET values are lost upon daemon restart.

The Simulator software is fully free and open source. It's written from
ground-up in an easy to learn and high-level scripting language called
Python. Everyone is welcome to modify Simulator in any way to best suite
their needs (note a [very permissive] BSD License is protecting Simulator).
If you'd rather would like us customizing or developing particular
Simulator feature for you, please let us know the details.

Producing SNMP snapshots
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