Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) components seamlessly integrate threaded communications, security, and encoding/decoding so you can quickly develop custom SNMP applications. This development tool requires fewer resources, provides more flexibility, and elicits code that is easy to re-use and maintain. See our Programming Primer for detailed instructions. Why buy a component when Open Source C# libraries are just a click away (#SNMP and SNMP Sharp Net)? Open Source documentation and sample projects are very limited, so SNMP novices need not apply they are not organized as agent and manager classes, so you have to figure out how to put the pieces together advanced features like MIB parsing and SNMPv3 engine caching are missing why risk the success of your project on "free" software that's likely to cost you days of research, excessive code writing and unnecessary testing?