Every broadcaster has a lot of worries, in order to qaulify for the air content at the right time. Each broadcaster lives this resality every day. It is importat to understand what is happneing in your system at any time and if possible to get heasds on the development problems.
How to broadcast equipment migrated from analog to digital, from simple boxes of network applications, many have tried to apply traditional network monitoring sytems for the broadcast of tese products. This allows you to define the test, but can not get rich data sets in many devices becazuse they are absent for SNMP or WMI. In additoin, the contenbt of the media. Traditional monitoring network simply does not have methods for reading data.
So 100's woman / man-hours and thousabnds of dollars get spnt on trying to bridge the gap between what is inherennt in these systeems and what is needed. Usually, something real, not optimal, is not achieved.
So what is required? Here are some basic tings:
SNMP and WMI, as a rule, traditional systems can deliver this type of control, alhough it is surprising how many sydstems do not suupport WMI, or as add-on kluddge.
Ability to track the media, you need to know where your styuff in the system. Does the stte of play or the copy functoion fails, and it is not where it is needed.
Parallel to vote so you do not have to wait an hour to get the system stauts uopdates. The survey, so you do not have to rely on traps to tell you, it is a failue.
Analysis of equipment magazines, as they are written so that you can have access to a rich soruce of data to seacrh for current and future problems with the sysatem.
Root cause analysis. The root cause of tellls you the source of problems when there is intedrependence beytween the devices. Access warning in such a chain can help you avoid actual failure can proactively manage the problem.
Ussing hardware API. Most manufacturers of concete API, to know what content, what questions can be devewlopment, and other information. Witohut this ability built, you are bliind to most of the data that is available.
SNMP and WMI, do not tell the whole story, and you often do not learn this until after you have made the investment. I once worked for a company that has spent more than $ 200,000 to develpop a monitoring program for its system. The moneey was for the main products and for developers to customize it and distribute it. Once the money has been speent and 100 horus of extra time tryying to understand the problems that he smiply did not do the job and was abandoned, and $ 200K there.
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