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SNMP Monitoring and Management

The old name of AggreGate Network Manager was AggreGate SNMP Manager. The product has greatly evolved since that, however it inherited industry-leading SNMP monitoring and management features:

	SNMP Rail Switch Configuration

• Support for SNMP v1, v2c and secure v3
• MIB directory, auto-compilation of MIB files, 200+ bundled MIBs
• Batch addition of MIBs by putting them to a server folder
• SNMP device discovery and mapping
• Automatic SNMP walk and caching of all available SNMP OIDs
• Organic handling of SNMP tables
• Delayed and grouped configuration of SNMP devices ("Set" operations)
• Custom polling periods for different OIDs
• Proper handling of all SNMP data types
• Flexible handling of SNMP traps
• On-demand, on-event and periodic sending of traps and Inform messages

Device Scanning (SNMP Walk)

	SNMP Table View

The Network Manager simplifies managing and monitoring heterogeneous multivendor networks by scanning SNMP devices, caching all provided values on the server side, and associating available MIB data with every OID. This method has many benefits:

• Extemely fast browsing of all MIBs supported by the device and values of all OIDs, without any device I/O
• Human readable names and descriptions are provided for standalone OIDs and SNMP table fields
• Only certain "important" OIDs are polled periodically to save resources

	AggreGate Network Manager Self-Monitoring via SNMP

There are three options for choosing what SNMP data should be available in AggreGate:

• Important values only. The list of important values is configured globally. This method helps to save resources by reading only data that will be later processed.
• All values available in MIB directory. All recognized OIDs are cached and visible in AggreGate. This method helps to select what data provided by a device may be used for processing.
• All values found by SNMP Walk. Even unrecognized OIDs are processed. Due to the missing MIB information, these OIDs does not form tables and have not human-readable names and descriptions. This method helps to find out what data is provided by a device and obtain proper MIBs.

SNMP Data Processing

Communications with SNMP devices are handled by SNMP device driver that converts SNMP values and data types into AggreGate format (see Device Normalization).

In addition to storing historical values of OIDs and whole SNMP tables in the database, AggreGate Platform provides unique set of tools and visual editors for processing SNMP data, such as alerts, charts, reports, trackers, and many more. See AggreGate Platform Features for more information.

SNMP Traps Handling

	SNMP Traps Event Filter

AggreGate Network Manager receives SNMP traps and converts them into standard AggreGate events. These events are stored in the database and can be acknowledged, filtered, sorted and searched. Newly received traps may trigger alerts.

The Network Manager can generate and send its own SNMP traps and Inform messages with guaranteed delivery. The traps may be sent upon alerts, according to a pre-defined schedule, or on-demand.

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