A dynamic SNMP to XML proxy solution

Abstract

The network management area has some proposals to use XML to encode information models and managed object instances. We present a solution to create SNMP to XML proxies dynamically using a SAX parser and translation facilities from the libsmi tools (see Strauss F., "libsmi - a library to access SMI MIB information", http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/). We also present an analysis system that uses the management information provided by the proxies in XML.