ByteSphere Technologies OidView Professional allows its users to browse the supported MIBs of a specific device in the network. OidView has allowed us to identify which performance metrics we need to be monitoring in the infrastructure.
By using the main console in OidView we are able to view each individual SNMP metric the device supports. It is from the easy to navigate layout in OidView we can pinpoint on specific devices which metrics need to be monitored for our capacity planning of the network. Once the metrics have been identified, they can be verified by our internal planning teams and then monitored by our NMS products.
Also, we use the easy to view layout for working with our vendors to compile a list of what we call engineering design limits. These limits are specific to each vendor’s platform. By using OidView we are able to quickly search for items which have been identified for us by the vendor to look at for these limits. These limits vary from the capacity planning ones as they are designed to watch for performance limits of the device, rather than predict growth. It is this list of limits, which helps us decide when to replace and/or upgrade a device in the network for reasons other than capacity.
OidView has not only allowed our staff to save time in identifying these important metrics for our environment, but it has allowed them to look at devices from a new perspective. We have made changes to the way we monitor particular devices from the information we have seen in OidView and in result we are not only saving the company money by being able to better predict when we need to upgrade a box, but also making money by not spending on unnecessary hardware.
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