The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) for SNMP provides polling for V1, V2c, and V3 SNMP MIB objectsExtensive SNMP Monitoring Coverage

The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) for SNMP provides polling for V1, V2c, and V3 SNMP MIB objects.

The solution listens for unsolicited SNMP traps and converts trap messages to the NMS alert format.

NMS comes equipped with a SNMP "sniffer" for real-time trap analysis. It can convert NMS alerts to SNMP format and forward traps to popular 3rd party network management systems.



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Delivering Broad SNMP Coverage

NMS features the following SNMP poller and trap listener probes:

  • SNMP MIB Poller and Browser. NMS provides a specialized probe that can poll any standard or proprietary MIB object from any SNMP-compliant device. MIB objects can be monitored for threshold violations, and alerts can be generated where necessary. Additionally, the polled MIB data can be archived for trend reporting and also leveraged for SLA creation, monitoring, and reporting. The probe offers a flexible interface for configuring unique MIB object poll requirements and also comes equipped with a MIB browser.
  • SNMP Trap Receiver. SNMP-enabled network devices, including routers, switches, servers, and printers, can be configured to report a variety of error conditions in the form of SNMP ”traps”–—which are automatically forwarded to a designated server, typically a network management server.
  • SNMP Trap Sniffer. NMS’ SNMP trap receiver probe (described above) also provides a real-time trap “sniffer” function. The probe watches the network in promiscuous mode to see all SNMP traps on the network wire. The probe's graphic user interface displays all traps in an active scrolling list as they are detected. Pressing the “start” button in the probe's interface easily activates the sniffer function—a green diode indicates that "sniffing" is in progress.

NMS offers the following specialized gateways:

  • 3rd Party Network Management System SNMP Gateway. NMS provides an SNMP gateway that will transform NMS alarm messages to SNMP trap messages that are readable by any SNMP-based event manager. Predefined SNMP Gateway solutions are available for HP OpenView Network Node Manager, CA Unicenter-TNG, and BMC Patrol Enterprise Manager (PEM).
  • Cisco SNMP devices. The Nimsoft cisco_qos probe performs SNMP GET queries to Cisco SNMP devices that support the Cisco class-based QoS MIB, transforming query results into alarms or quality of service (QoS) reports for SLA purposes. The probe monitors metrics like pre- and post-policy bitrates, drop bitrate, post policy bytes, dropped bytes, dropped packets for the defined traffic classes.
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