Network Map with Layer 2 topology (or Layer 3)

[andytlc68]

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and I take this opportunity to express my appreciation for what I have read so far, and the help it provides. I also apologize for my bad English .

At this time, in our company, we have installed Nagios XI in trial version (60 days ) and we plan to buy the unlimited version .
We will have to monitor servers and network devices. The network to be monitored will be made ​​up of hundreds of devices (routers , switches, firewalls , brocade and F5 devices , etc . ).

I would like to know if there is a way to build a topology map where the connections between network devices are created automatically . For example .. if Nagios was able to read information from protocols like CDP, LLDP, etc. from network equipment, the connections would be created in an intelligent manner. If the network evolves and also changes ... the connections change dynamically.
I'm used to HP Network Node Manager (NNMi) and before that Tivoli Netview and the new Solarwinds Orion NPM ... and we thought we could get for the network design similar results although more simple. Unfortunately I can not think of building maps and sub-maps manually.
I hoped to find, in the community, the open source tools that could integrate Nagios to solve this problem; but I was not lucky. I do not think NagVis may serve me to do this.
Someone can help me to understand if there is hope of having topological functionality of this type with Nagios xi (Enterprise)? Thank you! Andrea.

[tmcdonald]

Unfortunately we have no way currently to automatically define those relationships, however if they are defined already we can certainly automatically map them by using our Hypermap feature. The way they would need to be associated is by using the "Parent" definition, which can be a hierarchy with a central router, several switches branching off of it, and then hosts attached to those switches.

[andytlc68]

Donald , thanks for your quick response. I imagined that there was no solution to my question (I had looked everywhere on the Internet).
I read in the manual about parent definition configuration, and I'll try to apply it.
Unfortunately I noticed yesterday that Nagios xi trial version 60 days has 7 hosts limitation. This is a serious limitation for our tests (we have various type of network devices and the network is very large, complex and distributed throughout Italy) . Can you tell me if there's a way to make Nagios 60 days unlimited hosts ? Thank you so much ....

[tmcdonald]

Actually, the 60-day trial period has no limitations on hosts, or anything for that matter. After the 60 days it will go from a trial to the free license, which does have the 7-host limit. So as long as you get all of your testing done within that period, you should be fine.

[andytlc68]

Ok, I understand ...
Thank you again!

[mcapra]

Did you need additional assistance with the Hypermap? Is it ok if we lock this thread?

[andytlc68]

No, thanks. Now I have to read some documentation about Hypermap and try with some tests.
If I'll need additional assistance ... I'll write on forum again. Thank you again.