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SNMP MIB Browser

Are you new to the network management world? Do you have SNMP equipment deployed at your remote sites? Especially if you are just beginning to learn the principles of the SNMP protocol, effectively using a MIB browser...

SNMP Community String

If your network is spread out across a wide area with many unmanned sites, you need SNMP monitoring. It's virtually impossible for you and your team to watch all of your gear without some form of automated monitoring. You need...

Why Industrial Remote Monitoring is Critical to Prevent System Failure

As the saying goes: everything that can be monitored, should be monitored. Whether by human eyes or digital sensors, staying aware of the condition of industrial equipment is the only way to prevent costly accidents and downtime. For many large companies, factories, and municipalities in the oil and gas, power generation, and wastewater treatment industries, remote monitoring of important equipment is essential. The issue is this: all...

What Is an RTU?

If you're in contact with the telecom and IT worlds, you must have heard of the acronym "RTU". But, what is an RTU exactly? Let's walk through the basics of this important remote monitoring technology. Problems that...

Efficient Substation SCADA Design for Preventing Downtime in Utilities

In 1880, the town of Wabash, Indiana, became the first city to have electric lights. In 1882, the first central power station opened in Godalming, England. Later that year, Thomas Edison built the first electric station - Pearl Street Station - in New York. This all seems like a long time ago, but in the scope of human history, it wasn't. In a short time, though, our lives...

How to Use SCADA Equipment for the Oil and Gas Industry

The oil and gas industry has a very large footprint. Across the three broad sectors - upstream, midstream, and downstream - that footprint includes many examples of remote sites hosting expensive, important assets. Assets from wellheads to pipelines to holding tanks are often more than two hours away from the nearest maintenance worker. This causes delayed responses, which can allow problems to worsen. SCADA equipment for oil and gas companies helps...

SNMP Manager Comparison

Are you looking for a competent SNMP manager for your system? Are you not sure what you should be looking for yet? You've probably studied many options in terms of SNMP alarm masters - varying in price and features - that...

Empower a Remote Asset Monitoring System for Protecting Your Highly-Valued Equipment

The oil and gas industry is incredibly huge and lucrative. It spans the globe, drilling on land and sea, and spurs worldwide competition between nations. But it also relies upon each of its parts - wells, rigs, compressors, tanks, and rectifiers. It's an industry whose worth is measured in the trillions but whose fortune comes down to protecting individual pieces of equipment. That's why remote asset monitoring is...

SNMP RTU Price

SNMP, short for Simple Network Management Protocol, is nothing more than a standard language that computers use to control each other and report important data. Its advantage today is that a very large number of devices can...

RTU Troubleshooting for an Effective SCADA System

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are powerful tools. They provide central office technicians, dispatchers, and managers with the ability to see a company's entire physical footprint. As information flows from the company's widespread locations up the network into the central office, so too can your command flow down from the office to the branches. Why send a technician out to an overheating equipment room 150...