How to Select a Remote Alarm Network Monitoring System

Make sure your system supports these essential remote alarm network monitoring functions:

• Alarm collection and device management: Don't settle for a limited remote alarm network monitoring system. Get multiprotocol support for every monitoring device in your network, plus discrete alarms, analog alarms, ping alarms, and redundant path reporting.
• Alarm sorting and analysis: Make sense of alarm cascades with automatic intelligent alarm sorting, filtering, processing, and trend analysis.
• Alarm presentation and notification: Send detailed alarm descriptions and correction instructions to NOC and field techs via pager notifications and web interfaces.

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Checklist: Remote Alarm Network Monitoring Essentials

Here's a handy checklist of essential remote alarm network monitoring features you should look for in your next system. Print this checklist out and use it to rate the systems you're evaluating. If a system can't meet these basic requirements, cross it off your list.

Critical alarm collection and device management functions

• Multiprotocol support for your existing devices
• Live analog monitoring
• Back-up dial-up reporting
• Control relays
• SNMP support and ping alarms

Essential alarm sorting and analysis functions

• Alarm sorting
• Custom combination alarms
• Root cause analysis
• Nuisance alarm filtering
• History and trend analysis

Key alarm presentation and notification functions

• Detailed alarm notifications
• Alarm correction instructions
• Web interface
• Pager and e-mail notifications

"Every remote alarm network monitoring system I make is backed by my no-risk, money-back guarantee. If you buy my equipment and you're not satisfied for any reason during the first 30 days, simply return it for a full refund. If my product doesn't solve your problem, I don't want you to have it." - Bob Berry, CEO, DPS Telecom

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