Traditional SNMP Management

SNMP is still the most widely used Management technology today. Most LAN equipment and a lot of telecom equipment base their management interfaces on SNMP.

Still, even if you are an equipment vendor, who has chosen SNMP as your management technology there is a significant probability that you eventually will have to deal with equipment from other vendors, e.g. because they interact closely with your equipment. And they may not have chosen SNMP as their technology.

Also, your customers may request that your element management system can be accessed from their existing higher layer applications via one of a number of other protocol technologies like CORBA, TL1 or soon OSS-J.

Solution

Q3ADE 3G, which is designed for general purpose Enterprise Management, includes a long list of management features directly suited for SNMP management while at the same time enabling management of equipment based on CMIP, CORBA, XML and TL1.

Q3ADE 3G also provides a range of "northbound" interfaces to higher level management/OSS applications via CORBA, CMIP, SNMP, HTTP, OSS-J.

Q3ADE Gateway Developer (which includes Q3ADE 3G), allows you to add your own SNMP information models dynamically to Q3ADE 3G.

Q3ADE Advanced Developer combined with Q3ADE Gateway Developer

Benefits

Q3ADE's features for SNMP Management includes:

• Generic Fault Management
  Capturing and translating SNMP traps into a standardized alarm record. C.f. the FMS component.
• Autodiscovery and Availiability Monitoring
  Discover new equipment automatically when they are introduced into the system. Detect when an equipment/SNMP Agent falls out or dissappears from the system and raise alarms
• Performance (QOS) Management
  Monitor individual performance variables in an SNMP Agent and raise alarms, when the value exceeds limits. Collect and forward statistics across many agents. C.f. the PMS component.
• Integrated view of CMIP, SNMPV1, SNMPV2c and SNMPV3 agents, which alleviates you from the cumbersome details of security management and protocol differences.
• Dynamic Web Server
  The HTTP Gateway component provides a dynamic web server function, where you can present real time SNMP information by means of HTML/LHP pages.
• Scalability
  The distributed and multi-threaded architecture of Q3ADE 3G enables you to scale your system to manage virtually any number of SNMP based equipment. You can connect any number of distributed Q3ADE 3G "nodes" into one integrated SNMP management application, e.g. distributing the load of availability polling or performance monitoring.
• Easy integration into your OSS and business application architecture
  Q3ADE 3G supports several ways to integrate with your OSS and business applications, including ODBC, XML, SOAP, CORBA, Q3/CMIP.

In recent business cases you will see several examples of SNMP applications.