What is meant by “asynchronous” in the context of EMANATE?
In the monolithic agent environment, each incoming SNMP request must be processed to completion prior to accepting a new request. EMANATE deals with this differently. Each new request starts a new “thread” or “task”. This “thread” then processes the request, allowing the agent to accept further requests. Note that EMANATE is asynchronous on a per-message basis and not on a per-VarBind basis. That is, all the VarBinds in a message will be handled by the same “thread”.
