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Types of SNMP Entities Agents – provide access to management information on the system containing the agent Managers – access management info on managed systems (that is systems containing agents) Observers – "third party" reporter of events Proxy Agents – Application level forwarder (and optionally version translator) of SNMP messages Mid-level Managers – are simply quite powerful agents that access info from other agents and make it available to managers. |