The SNMP Development Kit is a body of software designed to make the fabrication of network management applications as easy as possible; it is not a complete suite of ready-to-use network management tools.
A few, simplistic management tools are provided, and these are not entirely without use. However, their function is more one of illustrating the use of the Development Kit libraries and verifying its behavior: they represent none of the sophistication of the applications that the Development Kit is designed to support.
C Language source code is provided for all components of the Development Kit. That code compiles and runs successfully on DEC MicroVAX 1machines running BSD 4.3 UNIX. However, the library that realizes the greatest part of the Development Kit functionality depends exclusively on materials supplied in the distribution, and so it will most likely compile in any environment.
The behavior of applications built from the Development Kit is believed in good faith to conform to RFC 1067. Applications built from the Development Kit successfully interoperate with at least two other, independent SNMP implementations.
The several parts of the SNMP Development Kit are described below.