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Michael_Dieter
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4 years ago
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Datasource development challenge

Anyone have any ideas about how to solve this challenge? We'd like to collect dhcp relay stats from our Juniper routers, not necessarily for minute-by-minute graphs and alerts but to be able ...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    In 15 years of SNMP monitoring, I've never seen it done that way. Somebody got needlessly creative. Just to be sure, you do make the SNMP get to the same address, regardless of VRF, right?

    So, you could switch to groovy and make the SNMP queries custom. Looks like both the Snmp.get() and Snmp.walk have the ability to get specify the community string at runtime. So, if you have the list of VRF names and you have the base community string, you could construct the concatenated version and make the query using a different "community string" for each VRF.

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Anonymous
4 years ago

You might look at other ways of discovering the list of VRF names, like maybe an API pull. You could do it in a property source and store the list as a property on each device. Then, instead of making a DS for each device, you could make a DS that pulls the list of VRFs from the device's property that was set previously.