What's new in version 6.5 (Feb. 22, 2010)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Supports AES 192-bit and 256-bit encryption
  • Bug fixes

What's new in version 6.0 (Jan. 16, 2008)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Agent can run inside Websphere
  • Table and scalar classes can use subclass of SnmpDataTable in addition to primitive data types
  • Bug fixes

What's new in version 5.2 (July 30, 2007)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Improved handling for frequently updated tables
  • Bug fixes

What's new in version 5.1 (Feb. 9, 2007)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Added support for J2ME CDC runtime environment
  • Bug fixes

What's new in version 5.0 (Feb. 16, 2006)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Added VACM-like support for SNMPv1/v2c agents. Different community strings can be associated with different MIB views.
  • Added support for SNMPv3 proxy forwarding
  • Added support for contextName in SNMPv3 trapsinks
  • Improved decoding performance of SNMPv3 packets

What's new in version 4.2 (April 8, 2005)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Integrated MIB browser
  • Improved user interface of MibGen
  • Improved handling of dynamic row creation
  • Fixed IpAddress data type and SNMP SET problems in subagent.dll

What's new in version 4.1 (Nov. 12, 2004)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Fixed compatiblity issues with JDK 1.5
  • Improved AgentX support

What's new in version 4.0 (April 6, 2004)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Support for building Windows Extension Agent
  • Config settings can be stored in other datasources such as database
  • Selectively generating Java classes
  • Optionally generating getter methods with no argument
  • MibGen command line tool

What's new in version 3.5 (Oct. 20, 2003)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Added USM CFB128-AES-128 algorithm
  • Support for multihome interfaces
  • Added AgentStats class for exposing agent internal stats
  • Agent config file is optional for subagent
  • InstallSnmpV3 script is no longer required

What's new in version 3.1.1 (July 25, 2003)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Better handling of proxy agent
  • Passwords and community names are optionally encrypted in agent's config file
  • Various of bug fixes

What's new in version 3.1 (May 28, 2003)

Major changes and improvements:
  • Better handling of huge tables. Various of improvements were made to greatly reduce memory footprint
  • SNMP agent as a proxy, which makes it easy to integrate with other agents which do not support AgentX standard
  • Improved MIB node search algorithm
  • Integrated with popular log4j
  • Improved config file management

What's new in version 3.0.1 (Feb. 10, 2003)

As the first maintenance release to Agent Builder 3.0, about 15 bug fixes were integrated in version 3.01.

Additionally, changes and improvements have been made in the following areas:

  • Subagent registration
  • Configuration file management
  • MIB parser

Major new features in version 3.0 (Dec. 9, 2002)

  • Master/subagent architecture based on AgentX technology (RFC 2741).
  • Major improvement on agent config. Now user can read/add/delete/update most config settings at run time.
  • Conversion between SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c traps are added to SnmpV1Trap and SnmpTrap classes, according to RFC 2576 and RFC 2089.
  • IP based security mechanism for SNMPv1/v2c requests and subagent connection requests.