How an SNMP Agent works

The SNMP Agent handles the SNMP network communication. When the agent receives a request from an SNMP manager, it checks the OID of the requested data object and if the OID is valid, the agent sends a response back to the SNMP manager. If the OID is not valid, the agent returns an error.

The SNMP Agent is the software component responsible for the Launcher object and responds to queries, carries out requests, and issues traps. A trap is a message sent by an SNMP Agent to the SNMP manager indicating that an event has occurred on the host running the network resource.