Implementing A Network Monitoring Feature In A Multipurpose Device Control Application

As the number of network connected devices grow, the need for monitoring and managing these devices increase as well. This paper looks at different methods of network monitoring, and which one is the most suitable for a network-enabled control system. The research compares the strengths and weaknesses of primarily CORBA, NetConf and SNMP. Relevant research will be analyzed to determine which protocol is the most extensible, most manageable and which one is the best performance-wise. The paper shows that SNMP is faster than NetConf in most cases when the number of monitored objects are less than 500. It also shows that SNMP uses less traffic than CORBA when a single object is retrieved. The paper concludes that SNMP is the most suitable for a network-enabled control system and presents one possible implementation of this