SNMP Network Monitoring that Monitors Both SNMP and Non-SNMP Devices

It's a major mistake to depend on an off-the-shelf SNMP manager for mission-critical telemetry

You want visibility of all your remote sites at once, not separate systems for non-SNMP and SNMP equipment. Use your SNMP manager where it does best: network inventory and drilling down for specific equipment problems.

If you're combining a non-SNMP network monitoring system with an SNMP-based network monitoring system or switching from traditional telemetry, an off-the-shelf SNMP manager won't provide the visibility you're expecting.

Make sure your SNMP network monitoring system supports essential telemetry functions

Don't use an SNMP manager for network alarm notification and fault management. It's missing seven critical functions for this task. Unless you have everything reporting to one system, you won't have complete visibility. Integrated SNMP network monitoring systems are perfectly tailored to this role.

There are 7 essential functions for combining SNMP and non- SNMP network monitoring. Your SNMP monitoring implementation will be successful only if it supports all 7 functions.

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7 Essential Telemetry Functions of SNMP network monitoring

1. Maintain Strict Accountability and System Security
   Advanced SNMP alarm monitoring tracks each user by a unique id and automatically record user actions in a history log.
2. Indicate cleared alarms
   Off-the-shelf SNMP managers don't correlate SNMP Trap messages to an alarm condition or a clear condition.
3. Maintain a list of standing alarms
   Your SNMP manager must maintain a list of standing alarms and not just log newly reported or acknowledged traps. Imagine what would happen to your network if a system operator acknowledged an alarm, and then didn't correct the alarm condition. Would anyone know the alarm is still standing? Nobody would know!
4. System operator identification and login
   SNMP network monitoring needs to track the identity of the system operator who acknowledges an alarm event. In the example of the negligent system operator, it would be difficult to determine who had made the error or to assign responsibility for the problems that resulted.
5. Best quality telemetry monitoring
   You'll have complete visibility of your entire network, not just the SNMP enabled devices with tools such as notifications escalation, legacy protocol mediation, nuisance alarm silencing, automatic control relay operation, and automatic notifications by pager and e-mail.
6. View local and regional alarm groups
   Advanced SNMP network monitoring will allow you to organize alarms by logical groupings. You can post the same alarm to multiple logical groupings or sort which alarms the user wants to see.
7. Complete, precise alarm descriptions
   SNMP network monitoring should record the time, location, severity, and a precise description of alarm events.

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