I would prefer packet flux since it's made in the USA but I don't believe
they have on board email, if you don't want to deploy an SNMP server this
might be an option

https://tyconsystems.com/homepage/shop/tpdin-monitor-web3/

On Wed, May 8, 2024, 12:10 PM Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>
wrote:

> What does the alarm contact offer?  Just SNMP?  If so, you need to figure
> out if the alarm contact is going to be changing the OID or not.  Some
> software works better in this situation.
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 3:09 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We have nothing at the moment.  So before I purchased a netguardian I
>> though I would ping the borg to see if there is a cheaper or simpler
>> system.
>>
>> We recently discovered that we had a rectifier fault and an inverter
>> fault so our system goes down during a power failure while waiting for the
>> generator to start.  I decided that we should probably monitor alarms.
>>
>>
>> *From:* TJ Trout
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 8, 2024 12:47 PM
>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>> *Cc:* Chuck McCown
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SNMP
>>
>> What's the use case? Do you have an existing snmp system? Sometimes a box
>> with built in email client is less of a hassle, I'm sure there are cloud
>> solutions as well.
>>
>> On Wed, May 8, 2024, 11:44 AM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We are needing to add some monitoring of old fashioned alarm contacts in
>>> one of our sites.  In the past I used Netguardians.  Not sure what Forrest
>>> has.
>>>
>>> Is SNMP still the defacto NMS comm method or are there better more
>>> modern stuff out there we should be looking at?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Chuck McCown
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