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Hi Dave, answering your first question: No, you cannot monitor other switches than DeltaV Smart Switches within NDCC for two main reason: 1) NDCC is hard-set to monitor DeltaV Smart Switches commissioned by the application and that predefined SNMP variables which are not the same across other devices including Hirschmann off-the-shelf switches; and 2) there's no passthrough of SNMP data across VIMs, EIOCs that could allow you to monitor these other networks.

NDCC doesn't not consume syslog messages, and if your goal is to monitor all the network equipment of your system, then you could start with a Syslog Server co-deployed with DeltaV for that purpose. There are OPC gateways that convert network equipment data so that you could bring into DeltaV, but then you kind of start to cross the line of security event monitoring and operational data. A standard solution we can provide you is our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution which would collect network equipment syslogs, Windows events from workstations, and even logs from endpoint protection tools (powered by McAfee). All these data is correlated and presented in a dashboard to enrich the investigation of potential issues within your system.

Obviously, if you only need syslog from various switches, including the DeltaV Smart Switches, then I'd recommend building a parallel monitoring infrastructure using tools such as Hirschmann HiVision, WhatsUpGold, and similar that would give you the right answers without compromising network segmentation per se.