Dynatrace to Monitor Network Devices
I am currently performing a POC at my client site to do a transition from ngenius to Dynatrace.
Ngenius is a network monitoring tool for switches, routers and the likes. I am currently looking into the possibility of using the SNMP Plugin or the TCP Port Plugin. For both of these, I am awaiting Dynatrace to be added to the rules so I can reach the different hosts.
I was curious to know if anyone had any experience with this and if there was an elegant solution to this?
I have the ability to ping the different network devices without any additional permissions so I was wondering if anyone knows of a plugin related to ICMP. All the plugins are higher in the TCP/IP model and I searched the Plugins page for such a plugin but was unsuccessful.
Cheers,
Sanj
Best Answer
I don't know if just pinging would be qualified as proper network device monitoring. If I think of network device monitoring I think of SNMP querying to get network I/O stats per interface, packet errors and the like. Not sure what ngenius is doing but if you want co compare simple ICMP pings with SNMP a network admin will probably just start laughing and asking "Where is the importatnt data?" So the SNMP Plugin will be your friend.
Hi Sanj, a quick google led me to this page about java pinging. I'd be happy to work on developing a ping plugin with you?
If no one has ever done this, I'd be more than willing! Being able to communicate via ICMP would be a lot less expensive :)
