Agent Extensibility Protocol

The Agent Extensibility Protocol, or AgentX, is a computer networking protocol that allows management of Simple Network Management Protocol objects defined by different processes via a single master agent. Agents that export objects via AgentX to a master agent are called subagents.¹ The AgentX standard not only defines the AgentX protocol, but also the procedure by which those subagents process SNMP protocol messages.²³

For more information, see RFC 2741⁴ for the original definition of the protocol and the IETF Agentx Working Group.⁵

References

Freire, Mário Marques; Chemouil, Prosper; Lorenz, Pascal; Gravey, Annie (April 6, 2011). Universal Multiservice Networks: Third European Conference, ECUMN 2004, Porto, Portugal, October 25-27. 2004, Proceedings. Springer. p. 41. ISBN 978-3-540-30197-4. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
Mauro, D.R.; Schmidt, K.J.; Schmidt, K.J. (2001). Essential SNMP. Help for system and network administrators (in German). O'Reilly. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-596-00020-2. Retrieved July 21, 2025.
Gervasi, Osvaldo (August 29, 2007). Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2007: International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26-29, 2007. Proceedings, Part II. Springer. p. 796. ISBN 978-3-540-74477-1. Retrieved July 3, 2025. The Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol standard defines, then, a framework for extensible SNMP agents. It characterizes entities called master agents and subagents and a protocol (AgentX) that integrates them.
Francisco, Dale; Wijnen, Bert; Ellison, Mark; Daniele, Michael (January 2000). Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force.
IETF Agentx Working Group Archived October 22, 2004, at the Wayback Machine.

Zheng, Dawei (30 December 2015), Control, Mechatronics and Automation Technology, CRC Press, p. 123, ISBN 978-1-315-75215-0
Yakhno, Tatyana (12 October 2004), Advances in Information Systems: Third International Conference, ADVIS 2004, Izmir, Turkey, October 20-22, 2004. Proceedings, Springer, p. 606, ISBN 978-3-540-23478-4
Szczuka, Marcin; Kryszkiewicz, Marzena; Jensen, Richard; Hu, Qinghua (9 June 2010), Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing: 7th International Conference, RSCTC 2010, Warsaw, Poland, June 28-30, 2010 Proceedings, Springer, p. 462, ISBN 978-3-642-13528-6

External links

"AgentX Protocol", Solaris System Management Agent Developer's Guide, retrieved 2025-06-21

[l194-1] Freire, Mário Marques; Chemouil, Prosper; Lorenz, Pascal; Gravey, Annie (April 6, 2011). Universal Multiservice Networks: Third European Conference, ECUMN 2004, Porto, Portugal, October 25-27. 2004, Proceedings. Springer. p. 41. ISBN 978-3-540-30197-4. Retrieved July 3, 2025.

[s028-2] Mauro, D.R.; Schmidt, K.J.; Schmidt, K.J. (2001). Essential SNMP. Help for system and network administrators (in German). O'Reilly. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-596-00020-2. Retrieved July 21, 2025.

[y554-3] Gervasi, Osvaldo (August 29, 2007). Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2007: International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26-29, 2007. Proceedings, Part II. Springer. p. 796. ISBN 978-3-540-74477-1. Retrieved July 3, 2025. The Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol standard defines, then, a framework for extensible SNMP agents. It characterizes entities called master agents and subagents and a protocol (AgentX) that integrates them.

[4] Francisco, Dale; Wijnen, Bert; Ellison, Mark; Daniele, Michael (January 2000). Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force.

[5] IETF Agentx Working Group Archived October 22, 2004, at the Wayback Machine.

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