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Monitoring With Librenms

LibreNMS is an open-source network monitoring system that can auto-discover network devices using SNMP, CDP, LLDP, or FDP. It collects and stores data using RRDTool, InfluxDB, Graphite or OpenTSDB and provides graphing and alerting capabilities. LibreNMS has over 350 supported network device vendors, a REST API, distributed polling, traffic billing, routing/switching support and mobile apps. Help is available on Discord, GitHub, and the community site.

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Monitoring With Librenms

LibreNMS is an open-source network monitoring system that can auto-discover network devices using SNMP, CDP, LLDP, or FDP. It collects and stores data using RRDTool, InfluxDB, Graphite or OpenTSDB and provides graphing and alerting capabilities. LibreNMS has over 350 supported network device vendors, a REST API, distributed polling, traffic billing, routing/switching support and mobile apps. Help is available on Discord, GitHub, and the community site.

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Monitoring your network with

LibreNMS
DKNOG8 Mar 8-9th 2018

www.librenms.org

Neil Lathwood
History
History
Fork of ……….

• Actual fork was Oct 2013

• Last GPL code May 2012

• 18 months code regression

Initial fork was done by:

• Paul Gear (Project founder) (@paulgear1)

• Tyler Christiansen (@supertylerc)


Overview

• Open source - GPLv3

• Community driven

• Aim to be inclusive to everyone

• 5 Years old this year - Party?


What is LibreNMS?
Auto-discovering NMS
• PHP / MySQL based

• Network and Inventory information

• Data collection is done via SNMP

• Data storage via RRDTool / InfluxDB / Graphite /


OpenTSDB

• Graphing via RRDTool - up and to the right


Like this
But not like this :(
GitHub Statistics

• 480+ Contributors

• 14k+ Commits

• 5k+ Pull requests

• 2.5k+ Issues
Installation
Installation
Manual install from GitHub / Composer

Virtual images available including 3rd party docker


container.

User contributed automation scripts

• Ansible

• Chef
Vendor support
Vendor Support
• Detection for over 350 vendors

• Continuously adding or improving support

• Working to simplify adding additional support

• Moving to yaml for detection

• OS Discovery done

• Health / Sensor Discovery done

• Processor Discovery done


Features
Auto-discovery

•CDP, LLDP or FDP

•SNMP Scan

•Even OSPF, ARP and BGP

•Service discovery
Dashboards
Alerting
Simple rule
Not so simple rule
Alert rules v2
Transports

•20+ transports available

•Email, IRC, Slack + More

•Even obscure ones like Syslog and Elasticsearch


Templates
:( Needs to be re-done

%title
Severity: %severity
{if %state == 0}
Time elapsed: %elapsed
{/if}Timestamp: %timestamp
Unique-ID: %uid
Rule: %name
{if %faults}Faults:
{foreach %faults} #%key: %value.string
{/foreach}
{/if}
Templates
Templates
Templates
Templates
Device Dependancy
Alerting system 2018

•Introduce new templating system

•Per rule transports

•Multiple recipients per rule

•Improved UI for group mapping


Authentication
Authentication
• Active Directory

• HTTP

• LDAP

• Radius

• SSO

• 2FA
Logging
Syslog and Graylog2
Device configs
Rancid and Oxidized
API
API

•Extensive restful API - Currently v0

•Supports Devices, Ports, Routing, Switching

•Alerting, Inventory, Bills and Logs

•Powers the myLibreNMS mobile apps


Scaling
Distributed Polling
•Allows you to scale out your install

•Supports n+1 for resilience

•Supports polling within NAT environments


Traffic billing
Traffic Billing

•CDR or Quota based

•Customer and billing references

•Data available via API

•Granular graphs available


Traffic Billing
Routing Support
BGP
OSPF
OTV
CEF
PeeringDB Support
PeeringDB
Updates
Automatic updates

Two available update channels:

•Development (master branch)

•Stable (GitHub releases)


Mobile Apps
Mobile Apps

Made available courtesy of Paul @ WaveDirect



Now released as Open Source
Support
Asking for help

• Discord – Primary method

• Community site

• Reddit

• GitHub for bugs


Getting involved

•Code contributions / pull requests

•Documentation

•Help others

•Find / report bugs and ask for device support


Contact
https://github.com/librenms/librenms

https://community.librenms.org

https://www.twitter.com/librenms

https://www.facebook.com/LibreNMS/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreNMS/

[email protected]

https://t.libren.ms/discord

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