Integration between NetSight (Extreme Management Center) and Third Party NMS Software

[Formia]

Hi

I need to integrate network devices information info into a 3rd party NMS (WhatUp Gold)

Can NetSight export network information info? how?
Is that possible using SNMPv3?

Also, is it possible to configure NetSight to forward SNMP Traps to another NMS server?

Attached an example of layout.

Thanks
Andrea

[Formia]

Hi Ryan,

thanks for your advice. 
This can be a solution.

Best Regards
Andrea

[Ryan_Yacobucci · Accepted solution]

One option that may be of use to you is that XMC/XIQ-SE has a robust API feature where you can use API web calls to extract data that you need. 

The user guide has some information on use of the NBI explorer to create and test with NBIs to pull information that you'd like: 

https://documentation.extremenetworks.com/netsight/8.5/XMC_8.5.5_Extreme_Management_Center_User_Guide.pdf?_ga=2.142577840.3090707.1643562596-743095838.1600269690

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Github also has some scripts that have been built using the NBI to perform tasks.

https://github.com/extremenetworks/ExtremeScripting/tree/master/XMC_XIQ-SE

Depending on what is available in the NBI toolset you could use the whatsup gold platform to perform API calls and extract the information needed from XMC. 

Thanks
-Ryan

[Formia]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for your reply. I actually need to keep separate two networks. I have a field device network monitored by Netsight and a server network in a higher layer monitored by Whatsup gold. Because of some company policy Whatsup gold is not supported to be connected directly to field device network.
That's why I was thinking to retrieve information from Netsight regarding the field device network.

I will think of different solution if this is not applicable.
Thanks
Andrea

[Ryan_Yacobucci]

Hello,

I do not believe XMC can forward traps, and we have a way to export a number of different information in NetSight/XMC/XIQ-SE, but I'm not sure how this would be of help. 

The 3rd party NMS application should have it's own polling mechanism that is used to poll and monitor the devices independently. So you'd configure the same SNMP credentials on Whatsup gold and it would source it's own snmp requests to monitor or pull information from devices. 

Typically a switch can also be configured with multiple traps servers, so the switch could send traps to both XMC and whatsup gold at the same time.

Thanks
-Ryan