Hicom 300E SNMP Capability

[samorse]

I'm looking for any info on the 300E regarding SNMP, not sure if it's supported, but would like alarms/errors communicated.

Thanks

 

[donb01]

As far as I'm able to tell from the installation and configuration manual, no, for most software versions.

Version 6.6 has a lot more network connectivity than 6.2 - 6.5, but I don't have a full list of what you can get away with. I know you can telnet into it, and it has a few web-based tools, and you can administer over the LAN with LC-Win, but I don't have more data than that. If you don't have 6.6 then it's highly probable the answer is no, and with 6.6 it's the low side of "maybe".

I know that wasn't very helpful, but I looked through all the docs I had and didn't find any mention of it.

 

[samorse]

That's kind of what we discovered as well since my post. The alarms are generated in a proprietary protocol called AFR. What I'm trying to find now is some type of application that will convert from AFR to SNMP. I did find the following,

http://www.hipath.cz/siemjet/en/home/ic/enterpriseNetworks/1301/Main/33347.jet,

called a Profix Server, but now looking at their USA site.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this!

 

[donb01]

AFR just means automatic fault reporting. It takes the error message from HISTA and packetizes it into a message and then contacts some server and ships it off using Ymodem protocol. The message contains your system-id and the text of the error message. I have intercepted those by accident before using ProComm but I don't know what character or string sequence to echo back to the switch to say "message received" so that it deletes the message and stops trying to send it out.

I couldn't find Profix either except what you linked to - sounds like a really cool idea.