SNMP Development Kit Goals

The foremost goal of the SNMP Development Kit is to foster serious as well as playful exploration of current and novel techniques for network management. This kit is intended as an aid for those who seek practical experience in both the use of network management information and the engineering issues involved in its acquisition and manipulation.

The design of the SNMP Development Kit is consistent with its goal:

While the deliberate inattention to performance issues implicit in the Development Kit code distinguishes it from more finely crafted, commercial SNMP implementations, this difference increases its value as a common reference point from which (long overdue) discussion of management protocol performance can proceed.