SNMP is a standard protocol that has wide acceptance in the industry and is flexible enough to be used in high demanding monitoring environments. SNMP certainly has its place in effective telecoms network management solutions, but this doesn't mean that any SNMP manager can provide adequate visibility and control of your network.
The typical off-the-shelf SNMP manager is not designed for displaying and processing telemetry data for effective network monitoring, especially for the kind of real-world monitoring tasks network managers most need performed. Usually these capabilities can be added to an SNMP manager, but often require substantial custom software development.
Monitor one has made this process easy by providing a method that allows easy creation of sensors that can poll any device variables through SNMP and present the collected data in the most suitable way. Before data is displayed, it can be processed by a user defined formula for better readability and understanding. In Monitor one terminology this method or option is named the “Shooter mechanism”.
At this time, Monitor one uses slightly modified code from the SNMP Components project for the implementation of the "Shooter mechanism" and the displaying of collected SNMP data. We're working on a full and unmodified implementation of the SNMP Components into Monitor one.