Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Steven Kolstad

Robert John Madril, Jr

Matt Howell

Ernest F Covelli

A system for an interceptor client is utilized to improve the reliability of data transfer between devices on a network. In particular, the interceptor client may be configured to monitor transactions between a SNMP manager application and a SNMP application. The interceptor client may be further configured to monitor and to identify a 'Get' command requesting multiple object identifiers (OIDs), e.g., OID.a, OID.b, . . . , OID.n, from a destination agent. The interceptor client may be further configured to preprocess the requested OIDs to the nearest possible previous OIDs, i.e., OID.a&#x2212;1, OID.b&#x2212;1, . . . , OID.n&#x2212;1. The interceptor client may be further configured format the requested 'Get' command as a &#x201c;Get-Next&#x201d; command requesting the modified OIDs from the destination agent. &#x201c;Get-Next&#x201d; command will always retrieve the next value in the tree of the MIB, regardless of whether or not a valid OID was specified.

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Steven Kolstad