Exam N10-008 topic 1 question 277 discussion

The engineer can use uptime statistics to determine the availability of the remote network equipment. Uptime is a measure of how long a system has been running without interruption. By monitoring the uptime of the remote network equipment, the engineer can determine how often the equipment has been offline or experienced downtime due to power outages or other issues. This can help the engineer evaluate the effectiveness of the UPSs in use at the remote retail locations and identify any areas for improvement.

A. Uptime is a statistic that can be used to determine the availability of the remote network equipment. Uptime is the amount of time that a device or system has been running without experiencing any failures or disruptions. It is commonly expressed as a percentage of total time, such as 99.99% uptime. By measuring the uptime of the network equipment at the remote retail locations, the engineer can determine how reliable and available the equipment is.

The point of a UPS is to provide uninterruptible power delivery. To measure its effectiveness, uptime is the statistic you'd be interested in.

UPS is to protect the system from outages when blackout. So a statistic to check if UPS is useful is uptime metric

ATEN's SP100 (SNMP card) is an UPS monitoring equipment. Allows connection of the UPS directly to the ethernet network through a RJ-45 connector without using RS-232 ports on the computer and without loading any individual UPS management software on the network server.