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 <tippenr...@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 <do...@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 >
