Network monitoring system

[from88]

Hello, Currently I’m looking for networking monitoring system for a DC Network which have ~200 nodes in 6 different geographic locations. All equipment is CISCO but different IOS version (IOS-XE,IOS-XR,NX-OS, IOS) Primary thing would be to monitor the following things like: Network Interfaces monitoring: • utilization • errors (CRC) • flaps (up/down) Device monitoring: • cpu • memory • availability (ICMP) Additional nice to have monitoring would be: syslog, mac-address table size, FAN, Power, temperatures status, maybe vrrp gw changes. Currently we’re using observium – it works OK. Just trying to see if there’s something better. It could be commercial or somethink like ‘open’ but the requirement would be that it would took lots of time to configure like NAGIOS modules and etc. I think it would be enough to have SNMP based monitoring. Maybe you could recommend any or have some advices ? Thanks !

[Mark Malone]

We use Cisco Prime covers all Cisco devices health , configuration management , and EOL/PSIRT reporting and CA UIM for alerting system and anything none Cisco too and then Live Action for IWAN QOS monitoring for granular traffic checking , for what you asked above Prime would nearly cover all of it but would require you do some custom reporting templates for the likes of mac tables etc but you can get Prime to report nearly on anything now , it also has compliance features and integrates with other Cisco platforms , you can use REST APIs too with cURL from Linux and pull all the info into other reporting systems too , Just some options anyway , these all cost none are open source or free

[from88]

Thank you, i will dig deeper into your suggestions.

For now i've one question regarding SNMP.

For example - do using SNMP i could get any output i want ? For example mac address table count ("show mac address table"), FAN statuses and so on. It's only the MIB (OID) thing ? So any monitoring system - which is SNMP based could provide this information to me ?

Thanks