BC6000 SNMP Alarm Unit Date : 30-08-2007 What is SNMP?
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is the most common protocol used by network management systems to communicate with network elements. For this to work, the
network element must be equipped with an SNMP agent.
Successful network management is achieved by monitoring network events and reading and writing predefined values to the network elements (for instance BC6000 SNMP Alarm Unit, routers, switches etc.)
How does SNMP work?
SNMP exchanges network information through messages. The SNMP protocol is UDP based and each message consists of a version identifier, an SNMP community name, and a PDU (protocol data unit). PDUs provide two fundamental actions, GET a variable and SET a variable.
What is an agent?
An SNMP agent is a program which is linked to a port and awaits requests from SNMP management software. Upon receiving a request, it processes the request, collects the requested information and/or performs the requested operations and returns the information to the sender.
BC6000 SNMP Agent
As an SNMP agent, the BC6000’s primary role is to mediate remote site alarms to SNMP traps and forward them to an SNMP manager.
It is easy to filter out any unimportant data as you can select to not send a trap for each individual alarm, although of course all inputs can be mediated to SNMP traps. The analogue inputs send traps for 2 thresholds. The SNMP Manager can retrieve live actual readings from analogue inputs
by issuing Get and GetNext commands. Set commands issued to the RTU32 will activate the control output relays, for turning on-site equipment on and off, locking and unlocking doors etc.
The BC6000 SNMP can report up to 4 SNMP managers at different IP addresses simultaneously, which makes it easy for
filtering alarms to different departments.
As the BC6000 SNMP is using OS WinCE, the basic Microsoft WinCE agent provides you with additional device network information and statistics.
Flexible I/O
The BC6000 SNMP offers flexible I/O but as standard comes with 16 alarm inputs, 4 analogue inputs, 2 Analogue outputs
and 4 control output relays enough to provide solid alarm coverage for telecommunication equipment, power supplies,
environmental conditions (temperature, humidity) and door/window alarms etc.
Expansion modules can be added if the site is bigger or you need to monitor more. Up to 5 expansion units can be daisy
chained off a base RTU32 giving numerous I/O options to suit your requirements.
Configuration for SNMP Alarm Unit
BC6000 SNMP offers you full flexibility in configuration - and you can obtain almost any special SNMP function handling for TRAPs, Get/GetNext Set functions, and additional I/O etc.
If you want special configuration you can do it with a PC programming tool - or we can do it for you based on your requirements.
Alternatively you can use the simple standard configuration via the built-in WebServer, where all necessary parameters for a simple SNMP alarm module can be configured.
The BC6000 SNMP concentrates a lot of functions into just one unit, making it a valuable and cost effective choice for you
SNMP remote alarm monitoring.
