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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
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<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
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</legalnotice>
<title>Definition of Manager Net if</title>
<prepared></prepared>
<responsible></responsible>
<docno></docno>
<approved></approved>
<checked></checked>
<date></date>
<rev></rev>
<file>snmp_manager_netif.xml</file>
</header>
<p></p>
<image file="snmp_manager_netif_1.gif">
<icaption>The Purpose of Manager Net if</icaption>
</image>
<p>The Network Interface (Net If) process delivers SNMP PDUs to the
manager server, and receives SNMP PDUs from the manager server.
The most common behaviour of a Net if process is that is receives
request PDU from the manager server, encodes the PDU into bytes
and transmits the bytes onto the network to an agent. When the
reply from the agent is received by the Net if process, which it
decodes into an SNMP PDU, which it sends to the manager server. </p>
<p>However, that simple behaviour can be modified in numerous
ways. For example, the Net if process can apply some kind of
encrypting/decrypting scheme on the bytes. </p>
<p>The snmp application provides two different modules,
<c>snmpm_net_if</c> (the default) and <c>snmpm_net_if_mt</c>,
both uses UDP as the transport protocol i.e the transport domains
<c>transportDomainUdpIpv4</c> and/or <c>transportDomainUdpIpv6</c>.
The difference between the two modules is that the latter is
"multi-threaded", i.e. for each message/request a new process
is created that processes the message/request and then exits. </p>
<p>There is a <c>server</c> config option,
<seealso marker="snmp_config#manager_server_nis">netif_sup</seealso>
that enables "active" Net If supervision. This is very simple mechanism.
The (supervising) process simply sends a
<seealso marker="#im_ping">ping</seealso> message and expects a
<seealso marker="#om_pong">pong</seealso> message response
(withing a specific time).
The interval between each <c>ping/pong</c> exhange is user configurable.
As is the time that is allowed for the
<seealso marker="#om_pong">pong</seealso>
message to arrive.
Both the NetIf module(s) provided with the app supports active supervision.
If a NetIf module/process is used which do not implement this, then
the server cannot be configured with active supervision. </p>
<p>It is also possible to write your own Net if process and
this section describes how to do that.</p>
<section>
<marker id="mandatory_functions"></marker>
<title>Mandatory Functions</title>
<p>A Net If process must implement the SNMP manager
<seealso marker="snmpm_network_interface">network interface behaviour</seealso>. </p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Messages</title>
<p>The section <em>Messages</em> describes mandatory (with exception
for the ping/pong messages) messages,
which Net If must send to the manager server process. </p>
<p>In this section a <c>Domain</c> field is the transport domain i.e
one of <c>transportDomainUdpIpv4</c> or <c>transportDomainUdpIpv6</c>,
and an <c>Addr</c> field is an
<c>{</c><seealso marker="kernel:inet#type-ip_address"><c>IpAddr</c></seealso><c>,IpPort}</c> tuple.</p>
<section>
<marker id="outgoing_messages"></marker>
<title>Outgoing Messages</title>
<p>Net if must send the following message when it receives an
SNMP PDU from the network that is aimed for the MasterAgent: </p>
<pre>
Server ! {snmp_pdu, Pdu, Domain, Addr}
</pre>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>Pdu</c> is an SNMP PDU record, as defined in
<c>snmp_types.hrl</c>, with the SNMP request.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Domain</c> is the source transport domain. </p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Addr</c> is the source address. </p>
</item>
</list>
<pre>
Server ! {snmp_trap, Trap, Domain, Addr}
</pre>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>Trap</c> is either an SNMP pdu record or an trappdu record,
as defined in <c>snmp_types.hrl</c>, with the SNMP request.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Domain</c> is the source transport domain. </p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Addr</c> is the source address. </p>
</item>
</list>
<pre>
Server ! {snmp_inform, Ref, Pdu, PduMS, Domain, Addr}
</pre>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>Ref</c> is either the atom <c>ignore</c> or something
that can be used to identify the inform-request (e.g. request-id).
<c>ignore</c> is used if the response (acknowledgment) to the
inform-request has already been sent (this means that the server
will not make the call to the
<seealso marker="snmpm_network_interface#inform_response">inform_response</seealso>
function). See the
<seealso marker="snmp_config#manager_irb">inform request behaviour</seealso>
configuration option for more info.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Pdu</c> is an SNMP PDU record, as defined in
<c>snmp_types.hrl</c>, with the SNMP request.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Domain</c> is the source transport domain. </p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Addr</c> is the source address. </p>
</item>
</list>
<pre>
Server ! {snmp_report, Data, Domain, Addr}
</pre>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>Data</c> is either <c>{ok, Pdu}</c> or
<c>{error, ReqId, ReasonInfo, Pdu}</c>. Which one is used depends
on the return value from the MPD
<seealso marker="snmpm_mpd#process_msg">process_msg</seealso> function. If the MsgData is <c>ok</c>,
the first is used, and if it is <c>{error, ReqId, Reason}</c>
the latter is used.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Pdu</c> is an SNMP PDU record, as defined in
<c>snmp_types.hrl</c>, with the SNMP request.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>ReqId</c> is an integer.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>ReasonInfo</c> is a term().</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Domain</c> is the source transport domain. </p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Addr</c> is the source address. </p>
</item>
</list>
<marker id="om_pong"></marker>
<pre>
Supervisor ! {pong, self()}
</pre>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>Supervisor</c> is the process that sent the
<seealso marker="#im_ping">ping</seealso> message (see below). </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<marker id="incoming_messages"></marker>
<title>Incoming Messages</title>
<p>This section describes the incoming messages which a Net If
process may choose to respond to. </p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<marker id="im_ping"></marker>
<p><c>{ping, Supervisor}</c></p>
<p>This message is sent to the Net If process by a process that
has been configured to perfor "active supervision" of the Net If
process. The Net If process should respond immediately with
a <seealso marker="#om_pong">pong</seealso> message. </p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>Supervisor</c> is a <c>pid()</c>. </p>
</item>
</list>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Notes</title>
<p>Since the Net if process is responsible for encoding and
decoding of SNMP messages, it must also update the relevant
counters in the SNMP group in MIB-II. It can use the functions
in the module <c>snmpm_mpd</c> for this purpose (refer to the
Reference Manual, section <c>snmp</c>, module <c>snmpm_mpd</c>
for more details). </p>
<p>There are also some useful functions for encoding and
decoding of SNMP messages in the module <c>snmp_pdus</c>. </p>
</section>
</chapter>
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