The SNMP Agent Simulator, bundled with Simulation Toolkit, is a platform-independent JAVA-based tool, which is used to simulate SNMPv1, SNMPv2C and SNMPv3 manageable devices. You can run this tool on Windows / Linux / Solaris and simulate one agent at a time. The SNMP Agent Simulator takes the MIB file as input and simulates instance variables for the MIBs. These instance variables are saved into a file and the agent responds from this file. You can create default variables from the MIB or learn variables from an existing agent.

The use of Jython-based scripting allows for advanced modeling of agent behavior, trap generation, creation of error scenarios, and expression of inter-relationships between MIB variables.

This section covers the following topics :

• Getting Started

• Simulating Default Values

• Configuring Values

• Resimulating Values

• Saving Agent Configuration

• Starting and Stopping the Agent

• Testing the Agent

• Package and Install SNMP Agent Configuration

• Stopping the Remote Agent

• Simulating a V3 Agent

• Starting the SNMP Agent from Command Line