SNMP
Configuring SNMP ingest plugin to pull data from snmp agents
The devices that are connecting to the internet are increasing drastically. The data produced by switches, routers, and other IoT devices is huge and it can provide valuable information that will be used for monitoring all the devices connected. Those data can be fetched or managed by SNMP protocol which will be running as a service in your device.
Apica Ascent platform provides a source extension plugin for SNMP that will help you collect data from all your SNMP agents.
Steps to Create SNMP Extension
Navigate to the Integrations page and click on the new Plugin button
Provide the Plugin Name and click next
Configure your resource requirements and click next
Provide the interval duration in seconds to pull data at every interval
Add the agents by providing the Hostname/IP and port
Provide the credentials for accessing the SNMP agents
Provide a custom MIB filename and load the MIB file, if you want to use a custom OID
After creation, you will see the SNMP data which will have all the OIDs as attributes with the corresponding name in the incoming data.
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