The SNMP Gateway
Managing SNMP Based Equipment

SNMP is the most commonly used management protocol for data communication equipment and also frequently used for telecom equipment.

The SNMPGW provides a generic configurable interface to SNMP based equipment via the three prevailing SNMP protocol versions v1, v2c and v3.

The SNMPGW also provides a range of additional "need-to-have" management functions. This includes:

• Auto-discovery and availability monitoring of SNMP agents, driven by traps and/or polls.

• Tree view browsing of SNMP MIB's (c.f. the Q3 Browser).

• Low-level SNMP operations via scripts.

• High-level object-oriented SNMP operations via scripts.

• Advanced filtered Information querying across many tables and even across many SNMP Agent MIB's.

• Reception and processing of traps and Inform Requests. Conversion of Traps to X.733 Alarms, process'able by the Alarm Viewer.

• Routing, filtering and multicasting of traps to several managers, e.g. receiveing SNMPv1 traps locally and routing them to a remote site via the fault safe transmission protocol of Q3ADE.

• SNMP v1/v2c/v3 Proxy function. Translates between SNMP Protocols.

The auto-discovery function of the SNMP Gateway interacts with the Map view to enable automatic build-up of maps as SNMP Nodes are discovered. This and many other behaviours may be tailored by scripting.

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