Netconf Integration/Plugin to another System

[makemeasandwich]

Hello,

I was wondering nagios has a plugin for netconf ? So that nagios could monitor over NETCONF instead of SNMP, if the other device, System or NMS supports the NETCONF Interface?
I couldn't really find anything on the internet about it.

Thanks a lot for the help.

kind regards

makemeasandwich

[tmcdonald]

The irony here is that NETCONF was created because SNMP was used more for monitoring than configuration, and the IETF wanted a protocol specifically for device configuration. In that regard I am not surprised there are no plugins out there.

Monitoring may be possible - how would you do it from a CLI? It may not be too hard to create a rudimentary plugin in bash or perl.

[makemeasandwich]

Hello,

yes thats what I what about it as well. But maybe there is a possibility ? I know some companies that have own network devices where they have a netconf interface and a monitoring system. They also monitor the device over netconf and dont use snmp for monitoring. If its good or bad is the other question.

I thought if any free open source monitoring system has a plugin or a solution for it then it would be nagios.

[jdalrymple]

I like tmcdonald see nothing out there. I suggest though looking at the existing Python library for what you're trying to do:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ncclient

If one were to try to write a plugin that would be a good place to start. I'd try to dig deeper into that library but to be honesty I don't know of any devices I have at my disposal that I could test against

[makemeasandwich]

Thanks a lot for the answers!

[jdalrymple]

You bet, I'm going to go ahead and archive this thread - if you make a plugin that might be useful to others be sure to post it on the Exchange!!!