Enterprise-Grade SNMP Collection Platform
SNMP was supposed to be replaced "soon" after its introduction in 1988. That was 37 years ago. It remains, like a particularly persistent houseguest, absolutely everywhere in your infrastructure.
USP Collector bridges the gap between this improbably resilient protocol and modern cloud observability platforms—without the existential dread typically associated with SNMP integration.
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) has been obsolete since approximately the moment it was invented. Yet it continues to be the primary management protocol for network devices, switches, routers, load balancers, and that equipment you forgot existed in the closet on the third floor.
Modern observability platforms, meanwhile, have evolved rapidly. SNMP integration? Not so much.
USP Collector provides production-ready SNMP collection with native integration for leading observability platforms. Deploy once, connect everywhere.
Not "works most of the time" or "works if you configure seventeen things correctly." It genuinely, improbably, works.
Lightweight agents eliminate centralized polling bottlenecks. Deploy across your infrastructure without thinking about it—like breathing or continental drift.
Full support for ASN.1 MIBs including standard and custom definitions. Even the ones you wrote in 2003 and have been afraid to touch since.
Send data to one platform or all of them simultaneously, because keeping your options open is always the right strategy.
An actual graphical user interface. With buttons you can click. Not a YAML file masquerading as configuration.
About Perpetual Obsolescence Technologies: We're founded on the principle that some technologies are simultaneously ancient, imperfect, and absolutely irreplaceable. SNMP is one of them—like TCP/IP, PostgreSQL, and common courtesy.
We're not here to tell you SNMP is elegant or modern. We're here to help you collect data from it without losing your mind, which is a more valuable service than you might think.
Professional. Reliable. Mostly Harmless.
Everything you need to collect SNMP data, and nothing you don't. No PhD required.
Distributed collection that eliminates centralized polling bottlenecks—which is the kind of thing you should never have to think about, like proper semicolon usage or why printers always jam.
Full support for standard ASN.1 MIB definitions. Import them through the WebGUI. They just work. Yes, really.
Native connectors for leading observability platforms. Configure once, send data everywhere, keep your sanity.
A proper web-based management console. Not a CLI that pretends to be a GUI. Not a configuration file that requires meditation to edit. An actual interface.
Comprehensive security controls. SNMPv3 support. Encrypted credential storage. Everything you need to avoid putting passwords on Post-it notes.
Configurable polling intervals. Get your metrics when you need them, not when the system deigns to provide them.
Native integration with major cloud observability platforms, agent-based architecture for improved scalability, and comprehensive MIB support without requiring custom development. Also, we acknowledge that SNMP is simultaneously ancient and indispensable, which is surprisingly rare.
SNMPv1, v2c, and v3. Full support for SNMPv3 authentication and encryption is included, though we both know you're still using v2c everywhere. We're not here to judge.
Not only can you, but you should. Redundancy is good. Configure multiple backends per agent and send data to Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Datadog, New Relic, and Splunk simultaneously. The software doesn't care.
Absolutely. Import standard or custom ASN.1 MIB definitions through the WebGUI. The system automatically compiles and validates them, including the ones you definitely documented thoroughly when you wrote them.
USP Collector implements intelligent buffering with automatic retry logic and exponential backoff. Data is queued locally until backend connectivity returns or heat death of the universe, whichever comes first. Your data is safe.
Yes. 30-day fully-featured trial with no credit card required. We're confident you'll love it, or at least hate it less than the alternatives.
Licensing is based on the number of monitored devices and is intentionally reasonable because we're not trying to fund a yacht. Contact sales@perpetual-obsolescence.tech for detailed pricing.
Yes. Configure trap receivers in the WebGUI. USP Collector captures traps and inform messages and forwards them to configured backends like a very specialized postal service.
Real human support. Not a chatbot. Not an AI. Actual people who understand SNMP and might even sympathize with your situation. Email and phone support with direct access to our engineering team.
Yes. Deploy agents in each network segment for optimal performance. Agents operate independently with centralized management—autonomous but not rebellious.
Yes. Comprehensive RESTful API for configuration management and automation. API documentation and examples are provided with installation. We even provide sample code, because we're not monsters.
Very. The agent-based architecture supports deployments from single devices to 10,000+ devices. Linear scaling with minimal infrastructure overhead. We've tested it extensively. The software scaled fine. The networks themselves had issues, but that's not our fault.
Linux only (Ubuntu 20.04+, RHEL 8+, Debian 11+). Windows support is planned for the distant future, which is to say "possibly never but we're keeping the option open."
Contact support@perpetual-obsolescence.tech for technical issues. Software has bugs. It's one of the few certainties in this universe, along with death, taxes, and SNMP refusing to die.
Email support@perpetual-obsolescence.tech. We'll either answer it or add it to this FAQ for the benefit of future confused people. We're collecting quite the list.
Obtaining the software is remarkably straightforward, which is refreshing in an industry that makes everything unnecessarily complicated.
Package: usp-collector-1.0.0-x86_64.tar.gz (42MB)*
SHA256: [checksum available in download]
* The file size being 42MB is entirely coincidental and not at all suspicious
The bare minimum needed for USP Collector to function without complaint:
Documentation Portal: docs.perpetual-obsolescence.tech
Technical Support: support@perpetual-obsolescence.tech
Sales Inquiries: sales@perpetual-obsolescence.tech
General Information: info@perpetual-obsolescence.tech
Licensing: This download includes a 30-day trial license with full feature access. After the trial period, a commercial license is required for continued use. Pricing is based on the number of monitored devices and is intentionally reasonable. We promise not to make it complicated.
Platform Support: Current release supports Linux distributions only. Windows support is planned for a future release—somewhere between next month and the heat death of the universe. Container deployment is fully supported for Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and similar platforms.