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Question by Saanjeith V. · Aug 17, 2015 at 02:10 PM ·

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

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Answer by Reinhard W. · Aug 17, 2015 at 08:22 PM

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.

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Answer by Adam G. · Aug 17, 2015 at 02:32 PM

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?

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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 :)

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