SNMP is still pretty much the de-facto monitoring standard. Going to run
through a demo of this in a week. Looking forward to seeing what it can do.
https://www.selector.ai
For your needs, you should use Zabbix. I think it's going to be supported
for a long time going into the future, it has good
20 years ago we used stuff from a weird little company called BlackBox for
remote monitoring and control. Looks like they still exist and make kind of
what Chuck is looking for, probably overkill though.
I have a few servers that need to send error notifications. Trying to keep
Google accepting those notifications was a real struggle, even when using
TLS + SMTP AUTH. They seem to have set up some options recently, but I
moved those to a third-party mail provider before those became an option so
I
Bash it is!
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:43 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
> I think the simple email alert is what we are looking for.. No NMS
> needed.
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> *From:* castarritt
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 8, 2024 3:33 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SNMP
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I think the simple email alert is what we are looking for.. No NMS needed.
From: castarritt
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 3:33 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SNMP
We've done stuff as ghetto as powering an old wrt54g through the alarm contacts
and monitoring
We've done stuff as ghetto as powering an old wrt54g through the alarm
contacts and monitoring its IP address to see when it comes up and goes
down. These days all of our sites have either an Alpha or ICT UPS or DC
shelf that has alarm monitoring inputs.
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 4:30 PM Ken Hohhof
As long as you support SMTP AUTH, I think that should be sufficient. If
necessary, someone could always create a Gmail account for this purpose.
Yes, there are some older devices that expect you to set them up as an MTA
rather than MUA so they can send unauthenticated SMTP on port 25. That
If you don’t need to monitor more than 100 “sensors”, PRTG has a free edition.
Note it runs on Windows (doesn’t have to be Windows Server).
https://www.paessler.com/howto-free-network-monitoring
100 sensors is not the same as 100 devices.
The paid versions are kind of pricey. Based
Some devices can be configured to send an email if a contact closes, but
the way this happens varies between devices.
My problem with integrating this on the the sitemonitor platform has
traditionally been that you need a rule system in order to determine when
to send the email. I.E. what
As others have mentioned, the existing firmware in the base 3's is
basically SNMP-polling only. The Base 3 was built to be able to do all of
the other items, but the whole covid supply chain pretty much killed R
around here for a couple years other than keeping product shipping. It
has finally
Not following how you are going to use SNMP without a monitoring
system.Packetflux Sitemonitor can turn a contact closure into a 1 or 0 OID that
an SNMP monitoring system can check at regular intervals, mine mostly polls
every 1 minute. But then you would typically have your NMS send an alert
Thanks, I am going to take a look at the 408 ControlByWeb unit.
It would get us there.
From: Colin Stanners
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 1:49 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Cc: TJ Trout ; Josh Luthman ; Chuck McCown
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SNMP
Chuck, the PacketFlux products are
Chuck, the PacketFlux products are great for many use cases but I'm not
sure this is one of them as the non-GPS-sync built in functionality in PF
units is very basic.
Look at the ControlByWeb products, amusingly their location in Nibley UT is
not far from you. I think their X-408 is cost
So how do Forrest’s products let you know of an issue? Traps?
\Would love to NOT have to have NMS just for this.
From: TJ Trout
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 1:35 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Cc: Chuck McCown
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SNMP
Packet flux can do it all too, the base
Packet flux can do it all too, the base unit can monitor two voltages and
temp and a few contact closures, if you need more volt inputs or closures
you add a expansion unit. No email that I'm aware of
On Wed, May 8, 2024, 12:23 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
> No, we have fuse alarms, rectifier,
Maybe Forrest will jump on here for a sales pitch. At a minimum I need contact
closures. But temp and DC voltage monitoring would be handy. Not sure the
differences in all his products. Email notification would probably be the best
for me.
From: TJ Trout
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
No, we have fuse alarms, rectifier, inverter, and other comm equipment alarm
contacts. Circuit breaker alarms. That is why historically I liked the
netguardian product. It eats everything. Monitors DC voltages etc. Temps
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 1:13 PM
To:
I would prefer packet flux since it's made in the USA but I don't believe
they have on board email, if you don't want to deploy an SNMP server this
might be an option
https://tyconsystems.com/homepage/shop/tpdin-monitor-web3/
On Wed, May 8, 2024, 12:10 PM Josh Luthman
wrote:
> What does the
I think if your installed equipment all came from one vendor, there
might be some way to do their proprietary monitoring solution.
However, SNMP as flawed as it might be, is the only standard that is
nearly universal (because some implementations are better than others).
bp
On 5/8/2024
The alarms come off various devices. They are generally contact closures. We
need to route those to something. Netguardians will take a wide variety of
discrete inputs, analog voltages, ethernet pings etc. And it puts out things
link SNMP traps and even pots dial up pager type of
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 wrote:
> We have nothing at the moment. So before I
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
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 wrote:
> We are needing to add some monitoring of old fashioned alarm contacts
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
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