NAME

mold − Managed Object Location Directory component of the POLYCENTER Common Agent

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/mold

DESCRIPTION

The mold process executes in conjunction with the other Common Agent components to provide SNMP agent management functionality.  The other run-time Common Agent components consist of the internet_mom process, the fddi_mom process, the trn_mom process, and snmp_pe process. 

The internet_mom process is the Managed Object Module (MOM) component of the POLYCENTER Common Agent that provides access to the Internet MIB-II objects as defined by Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based Internets: MIB II (RFC 1213).  The fddi_mom process is the MOM component of the POLYCENTER Common Agent that provides access to the FDDI MIB managed objects as defined by FDDI Management Information Base (RFC 1285). The trn_mom process is the MOM component of the POLYCENTER Common Agent that provides access to managed objects as defined by IEEE 802.5 Token Ring MIB (RFC 1231).  The snmp_pe process is the Common Agent’s SNMP protocol engine that handles incoming SNMP management requests, sends SNMP management responses, and issues SNMP traps. 

The mold process provides two basic functions: it is the registration facility that relates managed object classes to the MOM that supports the class, and also acts as a MOM lookup service for the Common Agent components.  Once a MOM starts up and is ready to manage a manageable object, it must register the object classes it supports with mold so that the MOM can receive incoming management requests for those classes.  For each valid incoming request received by the SNMP protocol engine, the snmp_pe process queries the mold for location information about the target managed object module supporting the requested classes. 

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands: snmpsetup(8)

Daemons: fddi_mom(8), internet_mom(8), snmp_pe(8), trn_mom(8)

A Simple Network Management Protocol (RFC 1157)