SNMP MIB Browser Software Development Kit for Visual C++ for Windows
ActiveSocket is a Network Communication component for Windows Developers. It runs on any 32 bit and 64 bit Windows Platform, incl. Windows 7, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows XP.It features many IP protocols, incl.: SSH (Secure Shell), RSH (Remote Shell), HTTP(s), FTP, ICMP Ping, NTP, SNMP v1/v2c (Get,GetNext,Set), SNMP MIB translation, SNMP Trap Sender, SNMP Trap Receiver, Telnet, DNS, TCP, UDP, IP-to-Country, Wake-On-LAN and more. Samples are included many popular development platforms, incl. Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, ASP .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++, ASP, Java, Javascript, PHP, Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, ColdFusion.
SNMP MIB Browsing can be well integrated into Visual C++ environments. This document describes how ActiveSocket's SNMP MIB Browser can be integrated into Visual C++ projects.
A management information base (MIB) is a database used to manage the devices in a communications network. The database is hierarchical (tree-structured) and entries are addressed through object identifiers (OID's). A MIB should contain information on these commands and on the target objects (controllable entities or potential sources of status information) with a view to tuning the network transport to the current needs. Each type of object in a MIB database has a name, a syntax, and an encoding. The name is represented uniquely as an OID. An OID is an administratively assigned name. The administrative policies used for assigning names are discussed later in this memo.
Use ActiveSocket's 'SnmpMibBrowser' object to load a MIB database into memory and iterate over all objects and view all properties.
Step 1: Download and install the ActiveSocket Toolkit
Download the ActiveSocket Toolkit from the ActiveXperts Download Site and start the installation. The installation guides you through the installation process.
Step 2: Create a new Visual C++ project
Launch 'Microsoft Visual C++' from the Start menu, and choose 'New' from the 'File Menu'. The 'New' dialog appears. Select the type of project (for instance: 'Win32 Console Application'), enter a 'Project name' and select the 'Location':
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Select the kind of project, for instance a 'Hello, world!' application and click 'Finish':
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Step 3: Refer to the ActiveSocket Library and declare the objects
A new Project is created now.
Before you can use ActiveSocket, you need to refer to the ActiveSocket library. The actually reference files are shipped with the product and are located in the following directory:
C:\Program Files\ActiveXperts\ActiveSocket\Examples\Visual C++\Include
Copy all files in the above directory ('ASocket.h', 'ASocket_i.c' and 'ASocketConstants.h') to your project directory.
On top of your code, declare the following object:
ISnmpMibBrowser *pSnmpMib = NULL;
Step 4: Create the objects
Since the ActiveComport Toolkit is a COM object, you must initialize the COM library before they can call COM library functions (e.g. ActiveComport functions):
CoInitialize(NULL);
Create the object in the following way:
CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SnmpMibBrowser, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_ISnmpMibBrowser, (void**) &pSnmpMibBrowser );
You can download the complete sample on our ftp site ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/asocket. There are many other working ActiveSocket scripts on our site and shipped with the product.
