This book is designed as a programmer's guide for the IBM SystemView Agent Version 1.4 program (hereafter referred to as SystemView Agent). The SystemView Agent provides the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent distributed protocol interface (DPI). The SNMP DPI permits users to dynamically add, delete, or replace management variables in the local Management Information Base (MIB) without requiring you to recompile the SNMP agent.