Best way to get switch/router interface stats remotely and periodically

[Jason Jackal]

Team:

I am not sure if this is really needed; however, I am looking at methods or solutions that I can get interfaces stats from my switches and routers. Looking for errors: CRC, Frame, Overruns, Collisions, etc; however, I am not sure the best way to do this on my devices.

Currently looking into Expect; however, I do not see away that I can save the output of the ‘show interface’ command to a file, clear the counters, and upload the interface stats to a tftp site. The idea was to use a cron job and ‘grep’ to dig though the files once on my server, but again, I am not sure I can do this.

I am looking for suggestions on how I can do this, or something similar, or even a better solution.

Thanks

JJ

[John Blakley · Accepted solution]

Solarwinds Orion NPM will do this. You could script it and it shouldn't be too hard, but if you have a lot of routers or interfaces, you may want something a little more robust unless this is for personal use. Personally, I would look into Python to do your scripting though if you're pretty comfortable with scripting.

HTH,
John

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[Jason Jackal]

Hi John,

Thanks for the insight. I am currently learning Python, which is slow going, but I am pushing through. This is production, and last Friday I did a router and switch count. It will be over 200 devices distributed globally. In addition, these resources/devices are linked to as many different circuit types. The business is small, and I cannot get the budget for Solarwinds, so I was trying to be creative. I looked into Python, but I am just learning, yet I have started with the Apress ‘Beginning Python’ by Hetland, so the skill set is not there YET.

[glen.grant]

  You can also google "free network management tools" and see if any of them might meet your needs .