Dynamic PC interface w/SNMP
MachineMonkey
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Hi folks,
I've been searching through these forums, but can't find anything quite on point for my problem.
I want to examine a web page display, capture certain HTML or SNMP entries and output them in a Serial framework to a BS2. I need this to happen automatically several times a second.
Here is the rest of the system:
Grass Valley Group 8900 Gecko frames
( http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/docs/Manuals/modular/8900Series/8900net/071-0612-04.pdf )
reporting via 10 Base T through a hub topology to a dedicated PC. The reporting information ( SNMP ) will be displayed in a common web browser and periodically archived.
We have 50+ frames, but right now, I'll be very happy to get just one to work in this fashion.
I want to take a seperate output from the hub and use it to feed a Stamp based alarm panel. From the point of the Serial output, I've got the bull by the short an' curlies, so to speak, but I don't know enough (anything) about the PINK software to know if it will serve in this fashion. OR perhaps I can get the dedicated PC to output what I need?
Can someone relate experience they have automagically updating PC-fed browser information to a Stamp? Actually, extracting data directly from SNMP agent packets might be far more efficient, it that is possible.
Much appreciated.
Kalo
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I've been searching through these forums, but can't find anything quite on point for my problem.
I want to examine a web page display, capture certain HTML or SNMP entries and output them in a Serial framework to a BS2. I need this to happen automatically several times a second.
Here is the rest of the system:
Grass Valley Group 8900 Gecko frames
( http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/docs/Manuals/modular/8900Series/8900net/071-0612-04.pdf )
reporting via 10 Base T through a hub topology to a dedicated PC. The reporting information ( SNMP ) will be displayed in a common web browser and periodically archived.
We have 50+ frames, but right now, I'll be very happy to get just one to work in this fashion.
I want to take a seperate output from the hub and use it to feed a Stamp based alarm panel. From the point of the Serial output, I've got the bull by the short an' curlies, so to speak, but I don't know enough (anything) about the PINK software to know if it will serve in this fashion. OR perhaps I can get the dedicated PC to output what I need?
Can someone relate experience they have automagically updating PC-fed browser information to a Stamp? Actually, extracting data directly from SNMP agent packets might be far more efficient, it that is possible.
Much appreciated.
Kalo
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Jules Renard
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It's a "stock clock" that displays on a remote lcd data sent via zigbee from a computer that is running "radioticker.exe". This program scrubs the html on a webpage for content and outputs via com port. I had to download 2 DLL files off the internet and put them in the same folder to make this work on an XP machine. The application files are here>>>www.flexipanel.com/Downloads/StockClockResources.zip
and was originally printed in Aprils edition of Circuitcellar.
You won't need a Pink to do it this way.
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1. Where/how is the HTML/SNMP info being generated?
2. What is the function of the BS2 in your system?
1) SNMP agents are local to firmware of GVG racks (pdf given in link). SNMP Manager (@ PC) specifies criteria.
2) BS2 runs the alarm panel. Logs are all well and good, but we want a physical alarm (discrete LEDs for each module and common buzzer, linked w/ single 'Acknowledge Switch') that operators can rely on to pinpoint problems without user intervention.
So... Control bytes to BS2; BS2 interprets conditions re: alarm needs; BS2 Serout to DC-16s, which run the LED matrix and common buzzer. BS2 input for paralleled ACK inputs (assuming multiple panel locations).
Kalo
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Jules Renard