Overview
APG comes with a multi-threaded, distributed SNMP v1/2c/3 poller to collect information from SNMP-enabled devices. An embedded MIB Browser/Compiler allows viewing and compiling any standard or vendor specific MIB allowing administrators to configure their own polling masks.
Key Features
Distributed SNMP Pollers
SNMP pollers can be distributed as your network grows. A SNMP poller is a lightweight process receiving its configuration from the central APG server, collect SNMP data on the target devices, and redirect the data to the backend/database. The poller supports SNMP v1, v2c and v3 (authentication and encryption), and use several advanced mechanisms like index cross referencing to poll complex mib schemas.
IP Overlapping Support
The IP Overlapping enables managed Service Providers to poll devices in a customer's private IP address space while maintaining the APG software in their own network despite overlapping IP address space. Multiple APG lightweight pollers can be installed on the same OS or geographically distributed over multiple physical servers. Each collector can be bound to a particular VIP and use an internal tagging for distinction purpose at the database and portal level.
Centralized Management
Administrators control the entire polling configuration from a single centralized configuration screen. The administrator can distribute configurations to targeted pollers, monitor the status of each pollers, and restart/stop them remotely.
Graphical Mib Browser
The collector for SNMP includes a GUI-based Mib Browser integrated within the APG portal which comes with hundreds of pre-loaded standards mibs and vendor mibs. Administrators can use the graphical interface to import a new mib and even write their own mask of SNMP variables to be polled. The mib browser includes several interesting features including: ability to mine SNMP parameters (i.e.: community strings and version) from a third-party source; support of get, get-next and walk operations, real-time polling (in a graph or in a table), SNMP oid search mechanism, and table view display.
Template-driven Data Collection
Administrators can modify or create their own SNMP polling masks using a sophisticated graphical user interface. The masks list the SNMP variables to poll (supporting features like filtering and index-cross referencing). The masks are applied to groups of target devices.
Live Reporting (Up to the second)
With the Collector for SNMP, a real-time Grapher (accessible by the portal) is provided to enable operations to view network elements with the required precision to see problems evolving in real time.