Net-SNMP
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Net-SNMP is a suite of software for using and deploying the SNMP protocol (v1, v2c and v3 and the AgentX subagent protocol). It supports IPv4, IPv6, IPX, AAL5, Unix domain sockets and other transports. It contains a generic client library, a suite of command line applications, a highly extensible SNMP agent, perl modules and python modules.
The Net-SNMP home page has more information about the project.
[edit] Distribution
Net-SNMP is housed on SourceForge and is usually in the top 100 projects in the sourceforge ranking system, which is odd given the obscurity of the SNMP protocol. It was the March 2005 SourceForge Project of the Month. It is very widely distributed and comes included with many operating systems including most distributions of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X. It is also, of course, available from the Net-SNMP web site.
[edit] History
The roots of the Net-SNMP project are long and a full description can be found on the Net-SNMP history page.
A quick summary is that Steve Waldbusser of CMU started a freely available SNMP tool kit in 1992. The package was later abandoned by CMU and Wes Hardaker at UCDavis renamed it to UCD-SNMP and extended it to meet the network management needs of the Electrical Engineering department there. Eventually Mr. Hardaker left the university and realized that the project was now network wide and thus renamed it to Net-SNMP to reflect its distributed development.
