[j-nsp] open source packages to monitor ex2200/vc

[Chuck Anderson]

Okay, attachments don't come through the list, so I've done what I
should have done long ago and put this on github:

https://github.com/cranderson/nagios-plugins

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> (trying again with gzipped code to make message small enough)
> 
> For Juniper hardware/software fault monitoring, we use Nagios with the
> check_snmp_environment plugin, extended with more Juniper checks.
> I've attached the one we use here.  I'd like to improve this further
> by removing duplicate alerts (often the Component State and FRU states
> are identical, so we get alert messages with the same alerts printed
> twice, but I didn't know that when I wrote it originally and wanted to
> not miss anything).
> 
> For interface statistics and historical graphing/trending, we use
> AKiPS.  AKiPS can also do threshold and fault alerting if you'd rather
> have a single solution that does everything.  The nice thing about
> AKiPS is that it has pretty comprehensive support for many vendors of
> not just networking gear, but also servers, power systems, wireless,
> etc.  It also has a syslog and NetFlow collector.  They also add new
> functionality pretty rapidly.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:15:12PM +0100, William wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > What is everyone using to monitor their EX2200/VC stacks?
> > 
> > We are using check_mk to monitor our network which is great, however due to
> > the way it polls or due to the low power of the ex2200 I'm unable to
> > monitor all the individual interfaces.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Will