Visual SNMP Manager™ is a multi-protocol (SNMPv1/2/3 and HTTP) device management application from NuDesign Technology Inc. that provides enhanced capabilities over and above other products in this market place.  The product targets end users as well as OEM’s, looking to add specific to their device, SNMP management “plug-in” utilizing Visual SNMP Manager’s extension API.

Visual SNMP Manager™ is a product in the NuDesign Technologies Visual MIB Browser product family. It supports all functions of Visual MIB Browser Pro.

In addition there are a number of features facilitating device, SNMP traps and general alarms management:

·      A hierarchical devices management view including alarm condition presentation and alarm source identification.

·      The facilities to add your own “plug-in” applications to extend Visual SNMP Manager’s capabilities.

·      Expression based graphing and alarm detection.

·      An interface to web managed devices.

·      Reorganized and improved alarm detection and logging.

Devices are presented as nodes of a tree, grouped by their network address node and sorted by their IP address.  They are added to the tree via automatic SNMP Agent discovery or via manual configuration.

The device icons are color-coded to provide an indication of the current network alarm conditions. 

·        Green icons indicate no alarms have been detected since start up or the last time the alarm status has been cleared.

·        Blue icons indicate an alarm assigned an “informative” alarm level, has been detected.

·        Yellow icons indicate an alarm assigned a “warning” alarm level, has been detected.

·        Orange icons indicate an alarm assigned an “error” alarm level, has been detected.

·        Red icons indicate an alarm assigned a “critical” alarm level, has been detected.

As alarms are detected, higher alarm levels are propagated to the branches above, ultimately to the top or root node.

You can determine the source of a particular alarm from the Alarm Log or by navigating to that specific Alarm from the Device Tree.  Double clicking on the Device Tab when it indicates an Alarm condition will take you to the most critical Alarm.

More on the management of devices and alarms can be found in the Visual SNMP Manager Quick Start document.
 

User Created Plug-in Applets

“Plug-in” applets are small applications that enhance the functionality of Visual SNMP Manager™.  “Plug-in” applets may be implemented as a user created C/C++ DLL that conforms to a simple interface that Visual SNMP Manager™ provides for SNMP services and alarm reporting.  Applets may also be implemented in JScript or VB Script.

The idea behind the Applet interface is to enable quick addition of customer oriented, GUI based functionality, enabling “fast to market” specific device or service manager.

A sample “plug-in” is included with Visual SNMP Manager™, it is a simple example of a multiple tab dialog, built as an external DLL.  The DLL, “SampleDlllPugin.dll” is installed in the main installation directory, typically “C:\Program Files\NuDesign Tools\Visual SNMP Manager”. 

NuDesign supplies all source and project files for this sample to facilitate the user written applets, we can also develop it for you to your specifications.