SNMP based discovery tool on SBC

Computer Engineering

In commercial industries, computer networks are deployed on a very large scale. The manual management of these networks is not feasible. To tackle this issue, the network management system (NMS) comes into the picture. However, the current NMS are too complex to be understood and configured by an operator level person. This paper proposes a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based web application that handles automatic device discovery, fault detection, devices monitoring and notifications for local network. This system is implemented through Single Board Computer (SBC). Key contribution of this paper is that system can be deployed at server side without making any major changes in existing server system. Main Purpose of using SBC is that it has low investment and maintenance cost, affordable replacement and fulfills single operation requirement. As it is Server based, it does not need to configure clients manually thus any number of clients can be traced. In short, this web software along with hardware gives effective solution for managing local networks.

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