Nagios network analyzer with AIX and Solaris

[steph007]

Hi,

I can see agent for Linux and Windows, but nothing to sent netflow to Nagios NetWork Analyser, but I found nothing for AIX and Solaris.
Is there a way to have AIX and Solaris integrated to Nagios NetWork Analyser?

[ssax]

Solaris frobe NNA:

I found this for Solaris:

https://www.opencsw.org/packages/fprobe/

I had to format it like this to make it work:

/opt/csw/sbin/fprobe -i /dev/net/net0 X.X.X.X:YYYY

To make it start on boot, I did this:

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echo '/opt/csw/sbin/fprobe -i /dev/net/net0 X.X.X.X:YYYY' > /etc/rc3.d/S99fprobe

I do not have access to any AIX systems. You may be able to compile fprobe/sflow on AIX but that's outside the scope of our support, you would need to work with your AIX admins/AIX support/developers of the flow agent you are compiling if you need help on that.

I found this 3rd party agent that may work for you:

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https://sflow.net

https://github.com/sflow/host-sflow

[steph007]

Thanks, it's work with Solaris.
Not tested yet in my lab environnement since I don't have AIX. I planed to do it soon in dev.

With sflow, Obivously I suppose I need to used sflow when I create the source in NA? Does it have about the same information as netflow? Is it limited?

[ssax]

Yes, you would choose sflow in there.

Since we aren't AIX admins here, you may want to reach out to yours and see if they know of any netflow/sflow agents for AIX, they may know of something. We don't have access to AIX here in support.

I found this that gives a good explanation:

https://www.pcwdld.com/netflow-vs-sflow

[steph007]

Thank you for the information. You can close this ticket.