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WEB Based Monitoring and Management. Background and Considerations. Background. CAP Ventures White Paper - Software Innovations: From Remote Diagnostics to Device Relationship Management - 12 December 2002. Primary Third-Party Players. Imaging Portals ( www.imagingportals.com )
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WEB Based Monitoring and Management Background and Considerations PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
Background • CAP Ventures White Paper - Software Innovations: From Remote Diagnostics to Device Relationship Management - 12 December 2002 PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
Primary Third-Party Players • Imaging Portals (www.imagingportals.com ) • Existing Sites with pager-based collection and SNMP oriented networked collection • Call it d2B (Device to Business) • (NetSilicon uses D2B in a more general way) • Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (EFI) (www.efi.com) • Applies Axeda technology to imaging • Axeda has significant experience in medical and industrial Web Based Monitoring and Control applications • Calls it DRM (Device Relationship Management) • DRM also stands for Digital Rights Management, which may be related PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
Imaging Portals Architecture PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
EFI Approach PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
Players in General WEB Monitoring • Axeda (nee eMation) (www.axeda.com ) • Questra (www.questra.com ) • emWARE (www.emware.com) • Embrace ( www.embracenetworks.com) • others PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
Related Industry Products • DocuStats 2000 from Document Dynamics (www.documentdynamics.com ), • OfficeTrac from Equitrac (www.equitrac.com) • Uniprint and Blueprint from Pharos Systems (www.pharos.com) • Print Auditor from Print Control Solutions Ltd. (www.print-auditor.com), and • Xerox’s PageTrak and XCounter (www.xerox.com) PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
CAPV Reference to Standards • Management Information Base (MIB) • Simple Network Management Protocol • eXtensible Markup Language (XML) • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
What to do next? • Is there interest in Standardization? • Limiting Scope? • Monitoring only? • Default only? (no instructions) • Just standardize interface with server? • Consider • Transport (HTTP or custom) • Object identification method • Report contents, coding and formats • Instruction coding, format, PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
Device Device Device Acquisition/distribution Message Formatting/Reading Transport (authenticate/encrypt/communicate) Message Formatting/Reading Interface to data base/management system PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
Suggested Areas to Address • Overall path for monitor, manage,update • Identify Transport compatible with requirements • Create messages for different operations • Define basic message format (e.g., • Source and destination identification • operation • Message Time, Action Time and/or periods • Affected Parameters in attribute/value format • Communication of embedded files PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon
Areas Not to Address • Acquisition/Distribution • Except for noting that it may be via SNMP, Web page, internal, etc • Specifics of how Firewalls, Proxies, site specific requirements are handled • Except to suggest use of WEB services type approach • Specific content of messages • Except for “header” • Specific parameters or naming of parameters • Except to give examples, such as OID approach PWG - Maui /W. Wagner, NetSilicon