Yes, you'll have to create the customizations yourself. There's currently no scanning/auto-configure for Prometheus SNMP users out there. It's a missing market opportunity.
I even suggested this to the LibreNMS people, as they have that part down solid, but their metrics collection and backend is at least a decade out of style (PHP polling + RRA). The up-side is that Prometheus is easily more scaleable than LibreNMS. When I talked to them originally, I think we were still in the Prometheus 1.x days and estimated we were doing 5x better back then. Now it's probably 50x better. On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:10 PM Colton Conor <[email protected]> wrote: > I am just wondering how hard to would be to replace something like > LibreNMS or PRTG with Prometheus? With Libre, we just install, set the SNMP > community sting, scan our network, and all devices get mapped, linked, and > monitored. I imagine Prometheus would be much more involved? Sounds like we > would have to edit .yml files for each device / vendor just to get the SNMP > metrics into the database. Then, we must create custom Grafana dashboards > for each device type right? > > > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:25 PM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 90% of what you need from all the vendors is `if_mib`. The basic network >> traffic stats. >> >> Once you have that, you can start to learn more about the vendor-specific >> MIBs. >> >> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:40 PM Colton Conor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> What is the easiest was to use Prometheus with SNMP devices? We use over >>> 20 different network vendors like Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, etc, and multiple >>> models/devices under each brand. Each one of these has custom MIBs, and we >>> are not SNMP experts. So we need a easy way to add multiple SNMP devices. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Prometheus Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/d40e0fa4-d44f-4bda-a753-5bea821b05f6%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/d40e0fa4-d44f-4bda-a753-5bea821b05f6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABbyFmo3XnTkVo_T5fCS660B0LdRXQ1QXbKbb5htgyghtu39bg%40mail.gmail.com.
