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>A routine to instantiate and start the SNMP agent thread in the default
configuration is provided in
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>In case you need to perform initialization, for example setting up SNMPv3
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you can register a callback function by simply writing the global variable:
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so you can of course easily start it in a thread of your choice at another
priority instead if required, after performing whatever other
initialization your SNMP MIBs need. A larger than default stacksize is
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used. This is the recommended way control such features from your
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which causes the <TT
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