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Monitor Solarwinds using private VRFS??

Hello,

Can anyone help?

Could you help point me in the correct direction. Can you advise how to set up Monitor Solarwinds using private VRFS? I am looking for example config

Thanks

Mike

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mrs.alterego

Moved to the NPM Forum to help gather answers from those more familiar with Virtual Routing and Messaging. :-)

RichardLetts

what equipment? full MPLS/VRF, or cisco's VRF-lite? How private?

(for those who don't know: VRFS do for routers what VMware does for servers: you can build a virtual network of virtual routers and completely isolate the 2/3 functions)

a) NPM 11.5 will pull the list of VRFs from routers.

b) vote up my Idea for supporting VRFS instances on Juniper equipment.

in our environment the non-closed VRFs peer with a mixing VRF through policy devices that implement IPS, firewall, or whatever the VRF-boundary policies are. This makes them reachable from the main VRF.

On most truly private VRFS we don't actually have network equipment management addresses (they are VLAN or physical interfaces), so we can manage the switches in the switch management VRF

finally for some VRFs we have another interface on the polling engine that is connected to a subnet in the VRF; I dislike this because it's a pain to look after, and we're trying to move the network equipment out of that VRF into the network management VRF)

Aside: we COS/QOS our network management vlan/vrf: they get a guaranteed (and maximum) 10% of available bandwidth on all links. If the network melts-down we need to be able to get past any broadcast storm or congestion issue.