A single copy of NAP can support over 30 devices at the same time, making it the most cost effective solution available. The NAP SNMP Management Station feature allows NAP to also monitor and control SNMP devices. The NAP SNMP Poller is a low cost way to reduce the high overhead of SNMP MIB polling by locating at the extremities of the network. Inexpensive local PC's perform the polling and report anomalies, via traps, to a centralized SNMP Manager such as NetView for AIX TM . The NAP Alert Manager is a GUI program that presents NetView Alerts for swift and easy viewing by a NetView operator.
Operators can use the clipboard to cut and paste alerts into a note or trouble ticket.
The NAP SNMP Proxy Gateway allows NAP to act as the SNMP Agent for those attached devices that do not offer SNMP connectivity. ANMI has trained third party specialists available to provide additional manpower and specialized skills required for large site installations and extended coverage. It is a Presentation Manager program that enables the rapid definition of device alarms, and the resulting Alert NMVT to NetView. Extensive filtering and thresholding of alarms is provided. NAP has its own simple command language that can be used to converse with devices and host programs, these commands can also be imbedded in C or REXX programs.