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\section {SNMP Development Kit Overview}

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
\footnote{{\it DEC} and {\it MicroVAX} are trademarks of
Digital Equipment Corporation.}
machines 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.

