Would like NPM to poll the API for the Cisco APIC controllers. to gather stats and information about ACI.
I would love to have this feature.
Would be a great feature to have
Last year,I had couple of sessions with Solarwinds team from US but I havent received any confirmation on the timelines. this is very essential for us. Currently we are using sciencelogic for ACI monitoring and for rest of the devices, Solarwinds has been used. If Solarwinds can support ACI then it will be great to have visibility from hybrid environment.
Still no news about his ....
NPM needs to know about Cisco ACI...please work this.
You can monitor ACI on the APIC level if you have SNMP enabled. SNMP access however is dependent on what contract you have.
Hello Deltona,
Could you please elaborate on the specifics of what you've done to make it work at the APIC level? And I'm assuming here you're referring to SNMP polling, not the APICs sending Traps.
Currently I have NPM 12.1 polling leaf and spine switches just fine for hardware health and port status using SNMP v3, and can send Traps or Syslog messages out as well, but I can not get NPM to SNMP v3 poll the actual APICs themselves. So if this is what you are referring to that you're actively doing (again, polling the APICs not sending SNMP Traps), I'm sure a number of people would be interesting in knowing the config steps in ACI needed.
Thanks,
-Marek
Hi Marek,
Try searching for SNMP configuration documentation or reach out to a Cisco engineer.
Sorry I can't help you any more on this particular subject.
We're going to be looking at ACI in the next 1-2 years. This might be good to consider vs tetration.
were you able by chance to find some more information on this ? We are deploying ACI now and i would welcome to have option to get more information from APIS
thx
marek
This feature is required to support Cloud DC and Software defined Network. My Most of customer is evaluating other tools for This capability. Requesting Solarwinds Team to include this capability ASAP>
Being a larger Solarwind customer we desperate to get the capability to monitor Cisco ACI to have end to end solarwind monitoring solution.
Hello mtalas,
I responded to you directly (I'm not on here much), but in case you didn't get that and/or perhaps it'll help some other people here since I got it working, this is some general information... though you'll have to find the actual documentation/examples out there on your own.
So FWIW:
You can currently get the typical/standard NPM monitoring for Cisco ACI [hardware] using SNMP polling (I'm using v3) right now – At least for ACI 3.x for certain, this includes the Leafs, Spines, and APICs but I think 2.2 / 2.3 will as well.
To make that work though you need to do some prep on the ACI side of things - namely enabling SNMP in a few places (yes, there's more one spot), and additionally/separately you can set ACI to send SNMP Traps as well (or Syslog) to Orion. The documentation out there is sparse but there are one or two documents that will get you there. Note: The SNMP portions alone will get you the Leaf & Spines, like any other Cisco switch polled by NPM, but with ACI 3.x (maybe even 2.3 or 2.2) to get the APICs you need to define an OOB Management contract to allow Orion to query the APICs (assuming you're using out of fabric connections for OOBM [recommended]) - that part doesn't seem to be included in a lot of the info on the Internet and took me a bit to run across. Basically Cisco changed the protocols allowed in by default, so you have to now explicitly allow in traffic to UDP 161 and you have to have your APICs entered in your Node Management Addresses section (likely only your leafs & spines are there).
It may not get all the hardware sensors or fields, but you can monitor general health & interfaces, and have alerts on them like normal.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
We will be deploying ACI3.x soon, this would be a great feature
It sounds like Marek has it working and it just takes some configuration on the Cisco side (Big surprise).
This is a thing and it's coming. SolarWinds needs to get ahead of this and be able to monitor it natively.
Need this feature ASAP, Please.
We will be deploying ACI this July, and SDWAN Q1 next year. According to Cisco, ACI is being rapidly deployed at breakneck speed now that it's surpassed the "bleeding edge" and had some time to mature. Hopefully full native support for these won't be as late as SIP support, which we've been waiting for for over a year now. It would be great if someone from SW would chime in here and give us an update.
Yes, we need the feature on urgent basis else we will have to switch to other tool for this ACI monitoring. I believe, Solarwinds can add the functionality for the same.
Waiting to get positive response from Developers community.
I'd recommend peeking at the beta, if you wish to see where this is at Impaler / CourtesyIT. Clearly this is a high priority focus for solarwinds going forward as it's near top of the feature list.
We're working on this!
Marked as implemented. This was released in NPM 12.4. NPM 12.4 Is Now Generally Available!
