Networks & Computers

With today’s infrastructure becoming more and more complex it has become increasingly important to monitor one’s network. By using SNMP one is able to gather performance data for reporting (live and historical), as well as receive SNMP TRAPS when faults occur. The combination of these two methods for any IT administrator will ensure one is being proactive rather than reactive. Being proactive about the infrastructure means less downtime and performance related issues, which results in a better end user experience.

One tool which has become invaluable is ByteSphere’s fault management tool. This tool can be used to passively watch and collect traps from the network. Traps are generated from devices, servers, or applications in the IT infrastructure which have changed. The change can be as small as a user logging off of a server or as drastic as a router or application failing. Once ByteSphere has received the trap it is able to perform a multitude of functions using the data which was sent with the trap.

For starters, ByteSphere can de-duplicate and filter the trap(s) making it much easier to deal with a fault in the network. De-duplication and filtering is the best in the industry and is available right out of the box. This fault management solution is also customizable with just a few clicks of the mouse. Having the ability to set ones own filtering criteria or say to ignore certain types of traps is important, as its leaves more time for dealing with those which are critical. Rather than seeing tens (or even hundreds or thousands) of alarms from one device, ByteSphere has the ability to filter all of these down. Once the SNMP Traps have been filtered down the tool has the ability to perform any number of actions. It can be forwarded to another system in the network, send out an email, kick off a script to execute an action, and the list goes on.

ByteSphere also has the ability to act as an aggregation point for traps, meaning one can have multiple networks send traps to single receiver and have visibility into all the networks from a single point. This becomes especially important when managing VPNs as a single piece of hardware can be attached to multiple networks. Rather than having alarms raised for multiple networks when a single router has an issue one is able to have ByteSphere de-duplicate the issue and see a single alarm. All of this is out of the box functionality and can be customized for any network setup. Having this single point of data is priceless when managing multiple networks whether they are big or small.

Fault management used to be a headache, as managing SNMP TRAPS one had to figure out what to do with all the traps and how to handle when floods of them came in from an outage. ByteSphere, one of the best companies in the industry has made managing large environments and multiple networks a breeze. With just a few clicks of the mouse one has the ability to watch hundreds of thousands events across one or multiple networks in a single interface with enough information to make a decision about what action to take. Taking this action proactively is what keeps ones IT infrastructure operating smoothly and successfully ensuring the best possible end user experience.

Alex Paul is a writer about Sending and capturing SNMP Traps for the company Oidview . Oidview focuses on Sending and capturing SNMP Traps and offers a software available for this purpose "snmp traps" and a Professional Snmp tools and software.

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