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Step Four: Plan Your Migration Budget

Now that you've gone through the preliminary planning and information gathering of Steps One through Three, you can now begin planning the budget for your SNMP implementation.

Hopefully, examining your existing data transport and telemetry equipment has helped you identify areas of your network that can be preserved without upgrading.

Using migration and mediation solutions, considerable portions of your network can be made SNMP ready without the costs of wholesale replacement. This can go a long way to keeping your capital expenditure budget within reasonable limits.

But you also need to watch out for costs related to installation manpower. A complete changeover of entire systems, or "forklift swapout," can strain your personnel budget as well as your Cap-X budget.

Trying to replace large portions of your network at once can take more man-hours than you have personnel - or overtime budget - to cope with.

And buying equipment that you can't install can hurt your projects finances as well. Equipment that's sitting in a warehouse instead of operating in the field generates no return on investment.

A migration solution can help with this problem as well. You don't have to purchase more equipment than your available manpower can conveniently install within any budget period.

You'll buy only what you can use. You won't incur excessive overtime costs. And you won't be paying for the privilege of warehousing equipment for months.

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