Download White Paper				13 of 33

Potential Pitfall #2: High Costs of Replacing Non-SNMP Equipment (If replacement is possible!)

Another place where your SNMP implementation budget can get derailed is the sheer expense of replacing a lot of equipment.

It takes a lot to make a remote site run - not just the primary equipment, but also essential secondary equipment such as battery plants, rectifiers, generators.

And to keep full visibility of your remote site, you also need to monitor environmental factors: temperature, humidity, fire, flooding.
Your telephony gear can possibly be replaced with SNMP native equipment - at considerable expense.

But your essential secondary monitoring equipment probably has no SNMP native equivalent. You could maintain a second legacy telemetry system to monitor power and environmentals, but again, splitting your monitoring across two or more screens is not the best solution.

Fortunately, in many cases, replacement is simply unnecessary.

A proxy agent can mediate standard alarm outputs from various types of equipment to SNMP.

Your equipment does not have to natively support SNMP for you to monitor it using SNMP.

A proxy device can accept any standard alarm output and convert it to an SNMP trap.

Primary and secondary equipment that outputs discrete contact closure alarms, and power and environmental equipment that outputs analog alarms, can all be incorporated in your SNMP monitoring via the proxy device.

		Download White Paper				13 of 33