Agent Extensibility Protocol

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Short description: Computer network protocol

The Agent Extensibility Protocol, or AgentX, is a computer networking protocol that allows management of Simple Network Management Protocol objects defined by different processes via a single master agent. Agents that export objects via AgentX to a master agent are called subagents.[1] The AgentX standard not only defines the AgentX protocol, but also the procedure by which those subagents process SNMP protocol messages.[2][3]{{Better source needed|reason=Incorrectly cited esoteric research article (see talk page); see talk page for other issues.|date=July 2025} For more information, see RFC 2741[4] for the original definition of the protocol and the IETF Agentx Working Group.[5]

References

  1. Freire, Mário Marques; Chemouil, Prosper; Lorenz, Pascal; Gravey, Annie (April 6, 2011). Universal Multiservice Networks: Third European Conference, ECUMN 2004, Porto, Portugal, October 25-27. 2004, Proceedings. Springer. p. 41. ISBN 978-3-540-30197-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=BVMGCAAAQBAJ&dq=Agent+Extensibility+Protocol,&pg=PA41. Retrieved July 3, 2025. 
  2. Mauro, D.R.; Schmidt, K.J.; Schmidt, K.J. (2001) (in de). Essential SNMP. Help for system and network administrators. O'Reilly. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-596-00020-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=sT4PTu1TwHgC&pg=PA55. Retrieved July 21, 2025. 
  3. Gervasi, Osvaldo (August 29, 2007). Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2007: International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26-29, 2007. Proceedings, Part II. Springer. p. 796. ISBN 978-3-540-74477-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=LfGZlgmRmGYC&dq=Agent+Extensibility+Protocol,&pg=PA796. Retrieved July 3, 2025. "The Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol standard defines, then, a framework for extensible SNMP agents. It characterizes entities called master agents and subagents and a protocol (AgentX) that integrates them." 
  4. Francisco, Dale; Wijnen, Bert; Ellison, Mark; Daniele, Michael (January 2000). Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2741/. 
  5. IETF Agentx Working Group .