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Whats the difference between master agent and proxy forwarder?

April 26, 2017agent forwarder master proxy

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Whats the difference between master agent and proxy forwarder?

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A. An SNMP master agent can route parts of an SNMP request to multiple subagents. The subagents are completely hidden from the SNMP manager. The manager only sees a single SNMP entity, the master agent. On the contrary, in a proxy forwarder application, the manager needs to be aware of all the proxied agents. It needs to build a request targeted to a single specific subagent, and it needs to include in the request some information that enables the proxy forwarder application to determine which subagent is the targeted of the request.