What does the alarm contact offer? Just SNMP? If so, you need to figure out if the alarm contact is going to be changing the OID or not. Some software works better in this situation.
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 3:09 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > We have nothing at the moment. So before I purchased a netguardian I > though I would ping the borg to see if there is a cheaper or simpler > system. > > We recently discovered that we had a rectifier fault and an inverter fault > so our system goes down during a power failure while waiting for the > generator to start. I decided that we should probably monitor alarms. > > > *From:* TJ Trout > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 8, 2024 12:47 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Cc:* Chuck McCown > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SNMP > > What's the use case? Do you have an existing snmp system? Sometimes a box > with built in email client is less of a hassle, I'm sure there are cloud > solutions as well. > > On Wed, May 8, 2024, 11:44 AM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > >> We are needing to add some monitoring of old fashioned alarm contacts in >> one of our sites. In the past I used Netguardians. Not sure what Forrest >> has. >> >> Is SNMP still the defacto NMS comm method or are there better more modern >> stuff out there we should be looking at? >> >> >> Best Regards, >> Chuck McCown >> >> McCown Technology Corporation >> 8401 N Commerce Dr >> Lake Point, Utah 84074 >> 801-250-9503 Office >> 435-830-4306 Cell >> www.mccowntech.com >> www.microtrench.pro >> www.terabitnetworks.com >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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