Re: SNMP via proxy

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

This is one of (many) reasons why a number of people have been converting to a streaming telemetry model of getting 
data out of devices.  You can send it to a relay host and visualize in your favorite magic (eg: grafana w/ influx or 
some other storage).

- Jared

> On Apr 10, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Dave Phelps <tippenring () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Some devices only accept IP addresses as destinations, or resolve a FQDN to an IP and that goes in the config. 
>
> I add secondary IPs to servers for these functions. Then I can simply move the IP to a new host whenever the role 
> moves.
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:13 AM Dovid Bender <dovid () telecurve com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A bit off topic. One of my early mistakes in my 9-5 was hard coding the IP's of our SNMP box in all of our gear 
> (networking equipment, Servers etc,). The box is at its limit and increasing its capacity will be nearly impossible. 
> We mainly use Nagios and Cacti to monitor our network. Going forward I was thinking of setting up a few hosts whose 
> job would be to simply relay SNMP traffic. This way moving forward we could hard code several IP's and bounce all 
> traffic through one of these IP's.
>
> TIA for your advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dovid