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LibreNMS Overview & Features Guide

LibreNMS is an open-source network monitoring system forked from Observium in 2013. It uses PHP/MySQL to collect data via SNMP and stores it using RRDTool, InfluxDB, Graphite, or OpenTSDB. LibreNMS features auto-discovery, dashboards, alerting, device and inventory monitoring, and traffic billing. It has a large community of over 400 contributors and supports monitoring over 350 network device vendors.

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LibreNMS Overview & Features Guide

LibreNMS is an open-source network monitoring system forked from Observium in 2013. It uses PHP/MySQL to collect data via SNMP and stores it using RRDTool, InfluxDB, Graphite, or OpenTSDB. LibreNMS features auto-discovery, dashboards, alerting, device and inventory monitoring, and traffic billing. It has a large community of over 400 contributors and supports monitoring over 350 network device vendors.

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An

Introduction to LibreNMS
Neil Lathwood
NLNOG-day 2017, Sept 8th

www.librenms.org
History
Fork of Observium
• Actual fork was Oct 2013
• Last GPL code May 2012
• 18 months code regression

Initial fork was done by:


• Paul Gear (Project founder) (@paulgear1)
• Tyler Christiansen (@supertylerc)
Auto-discovering NMS.
• PHP / MySQL based
• Data collection is done via SNMP
• Data storage via RRDTool / InfluxDB / Graphite /
OpenTSDB
• Network and Inventory information
• Graphing via RRDTool - up and to the right
Like this
But not like this :(
Overview
Community driven project

Aim to be inclusive to everyone

Open-source (GPLv3)
Github statistics
400+ Contributors
14k Commits
4k+ Pull requests
2k+ Issues
Features
Auto-discovery

CDP, LLDP or FDP

SNMP Scan

Even OSPF, ARP and BGP


Dashboards
Alerting
Simple rule
Not so simple
Transports

20+ Transports available

Email, IRC, Slack, + more

Even obscure ones like Syslog and Elasticsearch


Templates

%title
Severity: %severity
{if %state == 0}Time elapsed: %elapsed
{/if}Timestamp: %timestamp
Unique-ID: %uid
Rule: {if %name}%name{else}%rule{/if}
{if %faults}Faults:
{foreach %faults} #%key: %value.string
{/foreach}{/if}Alert sent to: {foreach %contacts}
%value <%key> {/foreach}
Various authentication methods:

• Active Directory
• HTTP
• LDAP
• Radius
• 2FA
Syslog + Graylog2
Oxidized + Rancid
Oxidized + Rancid
API
{
"status": "ok",
"devices": [
{
"device_id": "279",
"hostname": "localhost",
"sysName": "web01.1.novalocal",
"ip": null,
"community": “librenms",
…..
"icon": "centos.svg",
"poller_group": "0",
"override_sysLocation": "0",
"notes": null,
"port_association_mode": "2"
}
]
}
Distributed polling
Traffic billing

CDR or Quota based

Billing day

Customer and billing references

Data available via API

Granular graphs available


Traffic billing
Automatic updates
Two available update channels:

Stable (GitHub releases)

Development (master branch)


iPhone and Android Apps

Made available courtesy of Paul @ WaveDirect


Installation
Manual install:
• Master branch is development.
• Monthly stable releases available (v1.31) currently.

Virtual images available including 3rd party


docker container.
User contributed automated scripts
• Ansible
• Chef
Device support
Detection for over 350 vendors
Each month 30+ new or improved vendors added
Working to simplify adding additional support
• Moving to yaml for detection
• OS Discovery done
• Health / Sensor discovery done
Getting help
IRC – Primary method
Community site
Reddit
GitHub for bugs
Getting involved
Code

Docs

Help others

Find / report bugs and ask for device support


Contact
https://github.com/librenms/librenms

https://community.librenms.org

https://www.twitter.com/librenms

https://www.facebook.com/LibreNMS/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreNMS/

team@librenms.org

##librenms on freenode

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