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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
May. 01, 1998
Sandra Durham, Campbell, CA (US);
Ramanathan Kavasseri, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Network communication between a management station and an expression management information base (MIB) on a simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent entails complex analysis and configuration during creation of the variables. In order to alleviate this concern, an interface is provided which accepts an expression from a user, parses the expression to determine if it is in proper form, creates SNMP set packets to set the expression on the expression MIB and sends the SNMP set packets to the expression MIB of the SNMP agent. Alternatively, a similar interface may be located within the SNMP agent or node, and requires no communication over the network in order to evaluate expressions.