Read Introduction to SNMP Distributed Protocol Interface for information about the SNMP DPI routines supported by SystemView Agent and for information about running a DPI API application.
Read Subagent Programming Concepts for conceptual information about subagent programming. This section contains detailed information on request processing and contains specific programming recommendations.
Read Basic DPI API Functions for information on these DPI functions, including syntax and examples.
Read Transport-Related DPI API Functions for information on each of the DPI transport-related functions available. These functions try to hide any platform specific issues for the DPI subagent programmer so the subagent can be made as portable as possible. The information includes syntax and examples.
Read DPI Structures for information about each data structure used in the SNMP DPI API.
Read Character Set Selection for information about specifying the correct character set.
Read Constants, Values, Return Codes, and Include File for information about constants and values as they are defined in the snmp_dpi.h include file.
Read SNMP DPI API Version 1.1 Considerations for guidelines on programming with Version 1.1.
Read Migrating Your SNMP DPI Subagent to Version 2.0 for guidelines on programming with Version 2.0.
A DPI Subagent Example contains example code and comments that explain the example program.
This book also contains a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.