SNMP extensions to Tcl - A Short History
Below is my short history on Tcl extensions to access the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) from within Tcl. It might contain
errors and perhaps it does not list your favourite extension because I
never heard about it. So please contact me if you know of other
implementations or if there are other errors in the following text.
1992
The first snmp extension to Tcl I know of was written by Poul-Henning
Kamp (phk@data.fls.dk) based on the CMU snmp stack and tcl-6.4 and is
dated around January '92. This code is also included in the CMU snmp
sources. Poul-Henning later used a different protocol stack (I think
it was the tricklet code) and added MIB access using dbm etc. There
was a mailing list which had some discussions about design issues in
December '92. The last implementation I know of is available from
ftp://nexus.yorku.ca/pub/tcl_snmp/tcl_nm-1.03.tar.Z.
1993
In 1993, Glenn Trewitt and Poul-Henning Kamp wrote some drafts about a
Tcl API that should support snmp version 1 and version 2. I have a
draft dated July 1993, but I have never seen an implementation. The
last message from Poul-Henning Kamp (now phk@freebsd.org) was that he
is not working on SNMP anymore.
1994
I took the second snmp_tcl, ported it to the current Tcl version and
added it to the scotty Tcl extension in Januar 1994. In September '94,
we replaced Poul-Hennings extension with our own Tcl snmp extension,
which supports version 1 and version 2.
Also in August '94, Marshall Rose and Keith McCloghrie announced their
snmp Tcl API which is documented in their book "How To Manage Your
Network Using SNMP". An implementation based on the ISODE snmp stack is
available from ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mrose/isode-snmpV2/isode-snmpV2.tar.Z.
Marshall released the manager part of this software including an
implementation of the User-based Security Model in July '95. It is
available as ftp://ftp.cisco.com/ftp/kzm/snmptcl-1.2.tar.Z.
Another minor Tcl interface is part of the beholder (the RMON
implementation written at Delft University of Technology) which
just opens a pipe to the stdspook snmp frontend and converts
to tcl lists etc. The unix source is available from
ftp://dnpap.et.tudelft.nl/pub/btng/btng-5.0.tar.gz.
1995
In March '95, the UT Twente group announced a Tcl interface to their
SNMPv2 protocol machine (spm). It is based on the API defined by
Marshall Rose and can be found at
ftp://ftp.cs.utwente.nl/pub/src/snmp/software/UT-ROSE-1_0.tar.gz.
In June '95, Marshall Rose and Keith McCloghrie announced snmptcl
version 1.2 which includes an implementation of a new user-based
security model (USEC) developed in cooperation with Glenn Waters and
Brian O'Keefe.
In August '95, the USEC was also implemented in scotty-2.0.0 which was
released on 11. August 1995.
1996
Marshall Rose released an updated version of snmptcl in January
'96. This version includes an implementation of the USEC proposal
which has been published as RFC 1909 and RFC 1910.
Scotty version 2.1.0 was released in June '96. It supports SNMPv1,
SNMPv2C as well as SNMPv2 USEC.
For nearly every package, there exists a mailing list which is usually
mentioned in the README or ANNOUNCE files. Please join them if you
have questions to one of the packages listed above.
This page was last updated on 11 June 1996 by
schoenw@cs.utwente.nl.