From my few years of working in a NOC I've seen a lot of stupid behaviors from devices in regards to monitoring and notifications. Here's my current list of gripes.

I wish your app, monitoring product and/or device would take the following list into consideration when you decide to add SNMP Notification (trap) support.

1. You probably don't need more then one custom trap. A few different traps for different types of notifications is fine. 30,000 di…

As you may know I work in a Network Operation Center or as my business card says "THE NOC". What is life like in the NOC?

My team is responsible for monitoring a large number of hardware devices (Are they working? Did something break? Is it fixed?), servers (Are they responding? How's their storage? Is something trying to kill it?) applications (Is it running? Why did it crash? Can it start up again?), and business processes (Did these jobs fail?…