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Unified SNMP Interface for IoT Monitoring

MATOUŠEK Petr, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and POLČÁK Libor. Unified SNMP Interface for IoT Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the IM 2021 - 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management. Bordeaux: International Federation for Information Processing, 2021, pp. 938-943. ISBN 978-3-903176-32-4. Available from: http://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/im/im2021-ws3-manage-iot/213211.pdf
Czech title
Jednotné rozhraní SNMP pro monitorování internetu věcí
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
URL
Keywords

network monitoring, SNMP, Internet of Things,
MIB objects, MQTT

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is a network connecting various devices like sensors, actuators, and intelligent gadgets
that monitor and control temperature, light, humidity, electrical power, and other physical quantities in a smart environment such as smart buildings. Data provided by IoT devices are essential for the management of the smart environment. So, it is important to be aware of the reachability of connected IoT devices, their state, volume of transferred data, connections they make, etc. Unfortunately, many IoT devices communicate directly over the data link layer (Layer 2) as ZigBee, Bluetooth, or WiFi. Traditional network monitoring techniques like SNMP, Netflow, or Syslog, however, require the full TCP/IP stack, so they cannot be directly applied on IoT networks. IoT devices are managed independently through vendor-specific solutions mostly implemented in the cloud. This leads to the divided network management where IP network devices are managed by a central network management system (NMS) while IoT devices
are managed separately using proprietary applications. In order to include IoT devices into the network monitoring, two steps are required: (i) obtain IoT monitoring data, (ii) present these data in a standardized format supported by a common NMS. In this paper, we propose a solution based on the SNMP Proxy Agent that collects IoT information from IoT  communication and IoT log file on a local gateway. The agent converts gathered data into MIB objects that are provided to the SNMP monitoring system. Thus, information about IoT devices are fed to the locally deployed network management system. The paper demonstrates the proposed solution on the smart building where IoT data are obtained from MQTT communication and the Home Assistant log file.

Published
2021
Pages
938-943
Proceedings
Proceedings of the IM 2021 - 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management
Conference
1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management, Bordeaux, FR
ISBN
978-3-903176-32-4
Publisher
International Federation for Information Processing
Place
Bordeaux, FR
UT WoS
000696801700141
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB12443,
   author = "Petr Matou\v{s}ek and Ond\v{r}ej Ry\v{s}av\'{y} and Libor Pol\v{c}\'{a}k",
   title = "Unified SNMP Interface for IoT Monitoring",
   pages = "938--943",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IM 2021 - 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management",
   year = 2021,
   location = "Bordeaux, FR",
   publisher = "International Federation for Information Processing",
   ISBN = "978-3-903176-32-4",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12443"
}
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