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Cleveland, OH – In an informal Web site poll from Industry Week, almost 70% of engineers said that they knew about technology that can be applied to monitor their automation infrastructure, yet only about 30% were actively doing so.

The solution relies upon SNMP, Simple Network Management Protocol, a communications protocol built into most IT infrastructure such as wireless access points, security cameras, PLCs and PCs used in automation.

Monitoring devices via SNMP has typically been the domain of IT personnel, but their domain experience generally ends at the business systems. It's the automation engineer that manages the automation networks and the tools that notify operators of impending dangers are in the form of HMI (Human Machine Interfaces) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems.

The missing piece to existing HMI/SCADA systems comes in the form of an Industrial SNMP (iSNMP) driver, similar to other communication drivers used in your automation system such as RSLinx, ProfiNet, Modbus, etc. An Industrial SNMP Driver will enable an existing automation system to both monitor and manage your automation infrastructure, all the pieces that make up an automation network.

Read the full story at industryweek.com.

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