We made it!  We are releasing our first Management Pack.  It has been a long road to get here.  We have met our goal of building an SNMP Management Pack to DOES NOT use WMI or external files or an external interface to configure or poll network devices.  We tried to build the Management Pack to be as native as possible, to avoid unnecessary complications in the monitoring.

To kick off our release of our Management Packs we are releasing our Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switch Management Pack for a free download.  This MP represents the first Management Pack that we developed.  Since there is not much to a Catalyst 2950 Switch, the MP is relatively basic.  We cannot monitor, for instance, Broadcast Storms, on the Cat 2950 because there simply are no counters for it.  There are, however, some valuable counters and health information that we can gather from the switch.  These are collected and monitored in the MP.

We are also releasing our Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switch Management Pack.  This will be made available to all paid subscribers.  When you become a paid subscriber, you get all current and future Management Packs that we will develop.  You can see the "To Do" list to the left of this article.  All of these MP's will be made available to all subscribers as they are developed.

Our release schedule for new Management Packs will be a 2 - 3 week release timeline, depending upon the complexity of the device.  Our next MP release will be the Cisco PIX Firewall and Cisco ASA Security Appliance.