Day 6 - Telecom Monitoring with SNMP and MOM 2005

It's rare that I get to do anything truly important with MOM (read "anything anyone other than me gives a damn about"). I'm not talking about monitoring that e-commerce website or really important ERP application, but an honest-to-God real-life, non-technical mission critical operational function in a large organization.   So, on this, the 6th day of Christmas, I am going to demonstrate the extensibility the current version of MOM in monitoring non-Windows systems (starring MOM in the role of SNMP trap catcher), as well as provide some samples on how to take raw SNMP events in MOM and format the data into something user-friendly. In this particular example, I am going to show you how we used MOM to capture 911 call data from telecom switch a  multi-site enterprise to report the source and location details of the call back to site administrators within seconds of the event…( the 411 on 911, so to speak)   Read the entire article here…