A Proxy Creation Service for SNMP to XML Translations

Some proposals in the network management area use XML to encode the information model and the managed variables instances. In this paper we present an SNMP to XML dynamic proxy implementation to translate the information retrieved from network devices using SNMP to an XML representation. The proxy developed use the translation support between information models found in the libsmi and a SAX parser to instrument and dynamically create the proxy. We also present a monitoring supporting system to analyze an integrate various XML sources accessed through the proxy.