What is TrapServer^tm

TrapServer^tm   is a robust trouble-shooting tool that Consolidates Multi-Vendor Event Data relating to your Data Communication Network, Central Office, Transmission into one manageable system enabling monitoring, email and/or paging dispatch, html (or secure htmls://) access for alarm/event viewing and controls access for configuration of setup parameters. For SNMP/ASCII /TL-1 based equipment, TrapServer processes the events into SNMP traps and forwards these traps to other management systems. TrapServer offers a full-featured ASCII/TL-1 management interface. This means that all serial and TCP / IP based equipment can be monitored and, if necessary, polled for fault information. Description of TrapServer.

In an SNMP managed environment, TrapServer monitors v1/v2c traps sent by SNMP devices. With a simple "point-and-click" configuration window, traps from all varieties of trap-generating SNMP devices can be mapped to the TrapServer event scheme. Once a trap-generating SNMP device is configured, its traps are relayed to the NOC. No special knowledge of SNMP, other than the device OID, is required to configure this feature. Moreover, the NOC only needs A SINGLE MIB to monitor all SNMP trap-generating devices (and all ASCII devices) at the region level. 

TrapServer also serves as a platform to notify (page / email) your technicians on qualifying events. For instance, the TrapServer can be configured to notify only when critical and major alarms occur. Moreover, it can be configured to page only after a user-adjustable, system-level timeout is exhausted. In this manner, the TrapServer will not issue the page if the event is acknowledged or if the fault is cleared before the timeout is exhausted. The notification interface also allows for the scheduling of on-call or after-hour technicians based upon that technician's on-call duty calendar. By using the scheduling feature, TrapServer can be configured to schedule on-call duty months in advance. 

TrapServer is a full-featured ASCII/ TL-1 and SNMP management tool. It is ideal tool in a distributed and regionalized topology. Each area configures TrapServer to monitor the local devices. Then the NOC configures its SNMP manager to monitor the TrapServer's MIB. Once the region is configured, the Network Operations Center (NOC) -- with a single MIB, manages all devices at the region. This means that, once the TrapServer MIB is integrated into the NOC's SNMP manager, no further SNMP integration activity is required at the NOC. As a result, regions and devices can be added without any SNMP configuration efforts or, for that matter, any device-specific knowledge by the NOC. These are the Features of the TrapServer.. 

TrapServer™ provides a gateway into an SNMP Managed environment and manages all other devices using
 SNMP and ASCII and Tl-1. The NOC then has a common interface and database for all the equipment

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