1. WEB Based Monitoring and Management
Background and Considerations
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2. Background
CAP Ventures White Paper - Software Innovations: From Remote Diagnostics to Device Relationship Management December 2002
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3. Primary Third-Party Players
Imaging Portals ( )
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) (
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
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4. Imaging Portals Architecture
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5. EFI Approach
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6. Players in General WEB Monitoring
Axeda (nee eMation) ( )
Questra ( )
emWARE (
Embrace (
others
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7. Related Industry Products
DocuStats 2000 from Document Dynamics ( ),
OfficeTrac from Equitrac (
Uniprint and Blueprint from Pharos Systems (
Print Auditor from Print Control Solutions Ltd. ( and
Xerox’s PageTrak and XCounter (
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8. CAPV Reference to Standards
Management Information Base (MIB)
Simple Network Management Protocol
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
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9. 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,
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10. Transport (authenticate/encrypt/communicate)
Device
Device
Device
Acquisition/distribution
Message Formatting/Reading
Transport (authenticate/encrypt/communicate)
Message Formatting/Reading
Interface to data base/management system
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11. 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
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12. 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
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