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by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:59:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Network communication software vendor purchases the assets of COI Software, including the iSNMP product suite and an associated patent for network management and process control integration. |
| Keywords: | Kepware, network monitoring, industrial connectivity, automation infrastructure, COI Software, SNMP, iSNMP, HMI, PLC, Ethernet network, OPC, industrial asset management, plant-to-enterprise, simple network management protocol, automation engineers |
In a bid to further companies' IT and automation infrastructure integration efforts, communication software supplier Kepware Technologies Inc. has purchased the assets of COI Software Inc., the maker of iSNMP, a software product that facilitates the integration of Ethernet network monitoring and analysis with industrial asset management activities. No purchase price was revealed. Developed specifically for the industrial controls market, iSNMP (IndustrialSNMP) provides automation engineers a real-time view of their Ethernet network devices, including network traffic volume and network status, from within their existing OPC-compliant HMI software environments, Kepware said. SNMP, or simple network management protocol, is an Internet protocol commonly used in IT environments by managed devices such as routers, access servers, switches, and other data bridges, which collect and store information and make it available to a network management system. The network management system executes applications that in turn monitor and control the managed devices. [Click to continue] |
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