SNMPv3 architecture

There are four main parts to the SNMPv3 architecture.

The interaction between these systems to provide the necessary data requested is depicted in the following figure:

Figure 1. The primary parts of the SNMPv3 architecture
The primary parts of the SNMPv3 architecture

This illustration shows and example of the SNMPv3 architecture. The DPI2 subagent, smux peer, SNMP manager, and SNMP agent are shown. In addition, how they communicate with each other is shown.