solarwinds network performance monitor alternatives

To help with your original issue, it might help to perform a snmpwalk against the two routers and scan through the values looking for responses that might be for NTP. Those are the ones I primarily use but there might be other non-SNMP polling methods as well.

FYI, they already support the VMware API for polling ESXi Hosts and vCenter servers and SAM uses components that use perl to perform queries from the shell on Linux type servers. This at least lets you know that they are expanding their polling methods beyond SNMP. I will let you know if I find anything that allows you to create a CLI poller for other devices. I do not think that you can do your own customization and set up a UnDP CLI poller yet but I will explore this since I also have looked for this type of solution in the past. With the release of NPM 12.2 they have began to use CLI polling for monitoring Cisco ASA devices - there is no way to poll some information (Cisco An圜onnect users for example) from an ASA using SNMP for security reasons. Is SolarWinds exploring the use of various polling methods beyond SNMP? Should we look to get SolarWinds on this path now? My Palo Alto's, for instance, offer a wide variety of information, as long as you are polling via API calls. Is there a way for me to script a 'sh ntp status', have it run against those specific routers, get the data returned back, scrub the text looking for 'Clock is synchronized', and then be able to put the status in the node somehow? Or at the very least, be able to send me an alert when it is NOT synchronized?Īs we move forward, it seems like SNMP is fading out of existence and being replace with alternative polling methods. 'Clock is synchronized, stratum 3, reference is blah, blah, blah' The very first line of which is whether the clock is synchronize or not. So, I know that if I go to the CLI and do a 'sh ntp status' it will return a bunch of info. I already created a custom poller for the OID I found, but for these specific routers I'm kinda stuck. I'm trying to poll some Cisco ISR4431 and ISR4451 routers to see if they are in sync with the NTP servers.

Solarwinds network performance monitor alternatives