A host platform that runs a management package is a Network Management Station, and the
package is the Network Management Application (or manager). The manager communicates
with an agent using the SNMP protocol. The agent communicates with subagents to retrieve
information that satisfies requests from the manager. The protocol used between an agent
and a subagent can be DPI/SMUX/AgentX or any proprietary protocol. The z/OS Agent uses
the DPI interface. A host platform that runs the agent and possibly the subagent is the
network element.
Two SNMP implementations ...
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