MG-SOFT SNMP Proxy Agent can receive, optionally translate, and forward SNMP messages to final targets, as well as receive, translate, and send responses to these messages back to the message originators. In addition to SNMP Get, GetNext, GetBulk and Set messages, it can also forward and translate SNMP Trap and SNMP Inform notification messages. The software supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 protocol versions and can translate SNMP messages between different versions of the protocol. This makes it fully transparent to the network management (NMS) applications and managed SNMP devices, which are not aware that the actual management is conducted through a SNMP proxy application.

A typical SNMP proxy agent application is located between one or more network management (NMS) applications and the managed SNMP devices (agents), for example, when NMS and agents do not support the same version of the SNMP protocol or when they are not in the same (sub)network.

The main components of the MG-SOFT SNMP Proxy Agent software package are the Proxy Agent Service and the management console. Proxy Agent Service is a Windows service that runs in the background and receives, translates and forwards SNMP messages. The SNMP Proxy Agent management console provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the Proxy Agent Service.

MG-SOFT SNMP Proxy Agent runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7).