Re: SNMP via proxy

[Brant Ian Stevens <branto () branto com>]

This might be what you're looking for...

http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Snmpd_proxy

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Jared Mauch wrote on 4/10/19 12:50 PM:
> 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 <tippenring () 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 <dovid () 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