Re: [AFMUG] Equipment alarm relays

2019-10-31 Thread Adam Moffett 
The carrier switches and backhauls always have them though.  See Adtran, 
Ceragon, etc.  Someone uses them.


All I can imagine is maybe you have a cellular or serial packet radio 
that can send you the alarms even if you lose connectivity. Or maybe 
it's just an organizational momentum thing.  You already have all this 
SCADA/modbus stuff already so you keep using it.


-Adam


On 10/31/2019 2:35 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
I'm not sure why you'd bother with a switch or BH if it has SNMP.   I 
know most of my customers who monitor contacts are monitoring things 
they can't poll via SNMP because it doesn't support it.


-forrest

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 3:10 PM Adam Moffett > wrote:


Who monitors alarm relays on network equipment like switches and
backhauls?  Can you explain why you'd do that over SNMP?

I feel like you'd have to have a separate out of band network to
carry
the alarms in order for that to have any benefit.but maybe if
you're
Verizon that's not a problem.   Am I off base on this?



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Re: [AFMUG] Equipment alarm relays

2019-10-30 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account) 
I'm not sure why you'd bother with a switch or BH if it has SNMP.   I know
most of my customers who monitor contacts are monitoring things they can't
poll via SNMP because it doesn't support it.

-forrest

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 3:10 PM Adam Moffett  wrote:

> Who monitors alarm relays on network equipment like switches and
> backhauls?  Can you explain why you'd do that over SNMP?
>
> I feel like you'd have to have a separate out of band network to carry
> the alarms in order for that to have any benefit.but maybe if you're
> Verizon that's not a problem.   Am I off base on this?
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Re: [AFMUG] Equipment alarm relays

2019-10-30 Thread Carl Peterson 
We've started to wire things to the alarm inputs on our E7-2s.  Things like
cab door open, battery alarms, environmental alarms, etc.  These get logged
in CMS, and change the device icon to match alarm severity.  We also use
SNMP to monitor things and send pages out but it is helpful to combine
alarms with the E7-2.



On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 4:10 PM Adam Moffett  wrote:

> Who monitors alarm relays on network equipment like switches and
> backhauls?  Can you explain why you'd do that over SNMP?
>
> I feel like you'd have to have a separate out of band network to carry
> the alarms in order for that to have any benefit.but maybe if you're
> Verizon that's not a problem.   Am I off base on this?
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[AFMUG] Equipment alarm relays

2019-10-30 Thread Adam Moffett 
Who monitors alarm relays on network equipment like switches and 
backhauls?  Can you explain why you'd do that over SNMP?


I feel like you'd have to have a separate out of band network to carry 
the alarms in order for that to have any benefit.but maybe if you're 
Verizon that's not a problem.   Am I off base on this?




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