Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a complex request addressed to at least one SNMP agent (5) of a resource machine (2b) from an SNMP manager (4) of an application machine (2a). The complex request is processed so as to enable an integrating agent (6) to translate the complex request into SNMP requests and to optimize the number of SNMP requests transmitted through the network (3), particularly the number of GETNEXT requests.

Abstract: An information processing device IPD implanted in an information processing resource RES which enables dialog between an administration system MAN and the resource RES, by the agency of a standard protocol such as SNMP and through a network such as TCP/IP. The device PID is constituted on the one hand by a selection and dialog manager DIS including a configuration file CF, and on the other by a set of specific agents A1, A2, . . . , An of the protocol SNMP, the protocol which is also used in the device IPD. The manager DIS receives requests form the system MAN and, after reading the file CF, dispatches them, as a function of the object to which they pertain, to one or more of the agents A1, A2, . . . , An and then receives the responses to the requests sent by the appropriate agents and transmits them to the system MAN.