Menlo Park, California-based Network General Corp is to license Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Epilogue Technology Corp’s SNMP version 2 technology. Under the agreement, Network General will license Envoy, Epilogue’s transferable Simple Network Management Protocol offering, and Emissary, its Management Information Base- – MIB – compiler, thus incorporating SNMP v2 suport into its range of network administration products. The idea of licensing Envoy is to enable Network General to take advantage of the master/sub-agent Simple Network Management Protocol architecture, says the company. Envoy 5.0 reportedly enables vendors to create a ‘master’ agent that supports multiple local sub-agents. These control specific network functions and can be dynamically attached to and detached from a central master agent. Standard SNMP requests from a management station are sent to the master agent and automatically forwarded to the appropriate sub-agent, which performs the processing and returns the requested information to the master agent; the master agent then returns the response to the management station. SNMP products can be created as individual sub-agent components that interface directly with the master agent. The Envoy SNMP v2 source code will be incorporated as agent support in a range of Network General diagnostic products, including the Sniffer Network Analyzer, the Distributed Sniffer System or DSS, RMON for DSS remote monitoring, SniffMaster Consoles, Expert Sniffer Network Analyzer and the Notebook Sniffer Network Analyzer. Terms of the agreement between the two companies have not been disclosed.
