AGENT++ has been designed to make the development of simple network management protocol agents simple. Using the AGENT++ API the programmer does not need to be concerned with details about SNMP protocol engine and dispatch table. The programmer can focus on implementing method routines and management instrumentation. The OO approach encapsulates and hides many internals like management of incoming SNMP requests, looking up mappings in the dispatch table, calling the appropriate method routines, sending responses and traps. Details concerning the simple network protocol itself are encapsulated by SNMP++ (see the SNMP++ specification for details).