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Microcomputer controlled interface, hardware, with operating software and customer programmable logic, capable of performing as a Simple Network Management Protocol ("SNMP") proxy agent or an SNMP manager, namely, a proxy agent interface hardware device to interrogate multiple SNMP compliant devices residing on an IP network, translate non-SNMP proprietary fault massages to SNMP messages, and report them to an IP based network management system, or to other destination via a local data port