Mercy Ships uses SNMPC to monitor Hospital Ship
Network
SARATOGA, CA, October 28th, 2002, Castle Rock Computing announces
that global charity Mercy Ships will be using SNMPc to monitor
the networks both onboard its fleet of hospital ships and at
its Headquarters in Garden Valley, Texas.
Mercy Ships owns and operates a growing fleet of hospital ships
bringing hope and healing to the world's most poor and needy in
port cities around the world. The crews take physical and spiritual
healing to the poor and needy.
Since 1978, Mercy Ships has treated more than 200,000 people in
village medical and dental clinics, performed 8,000 medical surgeries
and 100,000 dental treatments. Mercy Ships has also provided more
than $25 million worth of medical equipment, hospital supplies
and medicines to developing nations and completed over 250 construction
and agriculture projects. Since its founding, Mercy Ships has visited
more than 900 ports worldwide.
The dedicated crew and staff consist of singles, couples and entire
families. Volunteers contribute their time, raise their own support
and actually pay to work on board. This allows contributed goods
and finances to go directly to helping the needy.
As Mercy Ships has grown in size, the need to maintain data systems
has become vital. Maintaining a viable worldwide network is critical
to the operation and after an evaluation period Mercy Ships found
SNMPc from Castle Rock Computing was exactly the product they were
looking for.
Michael Mattox, Network Administrator for Mercy Ships explains
more, “Our International Operations Center in Texas is
on a large campus like setting. Using SNMPc’s long-term
statistical trending feature we can monitor the local network
and manage the capacity of our critical international connections.
The proactive network alarming pinpoints exactly where network
hotspots and problems are. Therefore we spend less time firefighting
the network and more time proactively managing. We are also installing
SNMPc on the ships and linking all the system together using
the inbuilt domain management feature.”
SNMPc from Castle Rock Computing is a secure, distributed network
management system designed to monitor the network infrastructure
including routers, switches, servers, web sites and application
availability. It features support for the secure management protocol,
SNMP v3, unparalleled ease of use and versions for both small and
large networks. Over 100,000 copies of SNMPc have been shipped.
MERCY SHIPS
Kreig Ecklund, CIO
PO Box 2020
Garden Valley, TX 75771-2020
Phone: 1-800-772-SHIP
Email: ecklundk@mercyships.org
Website: www.mercyships.org
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