Open Source Network Management
Open Source Network Management
A step-by-step guide for getting started with open source network management tools.
About the Book
This book is a guide for getting started with the modern open source network management tools. Often times using open source software for network management can be intimidating. This book is meant to help show the ease at which getting started with the tools and lessen the "fog" of how to get started.
This will take you through setting up on a single host that would be able to scale to a small deployment. Overall this will be something that can be replicated and with a little additional investment of time and additional resources can then be scaled out to meet your environment's needs.
Book Chapters:
- Introduction and Licensing
- Docker and Docker Compose
- Nautobot and Source of Truth
- Secrets Management: Hashicorp Vault
- Metrics Gathering: Telegraf
- Metrics Storage: Prometheus
- Metrics Visualization: Grafana
- Web Server
- Open Source Network Management Summary
Book Updates
This book will have additional updates and writing on additional tools over time. The tools written about are an author's choice.
Current Version
The current version being released is a v0 release. In that this has most of the content, but there are still a few minor edits being processed yet. The technical content is at a ready state.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Network Automation and Network Management
- Environment
- About Me
- Licensing of Products
- Hashicorp Vault
- Prometheus
- InfluxData Telegraf
- Grafana
- Docker Desktop Announcement
- Versioning and Changelogs
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Docker and Docker Compose
- What Is Docker?
- What s Docker Compose?
- Installation of Docker
- Docker Networking
- Docker Summary
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Nautobot and Source of Truth
- Source of Truth
- Nautobot
- Installation
- Test Start
- Nautobot Data Population
- Adding Plugins to Nautobot Docker
- Onboarding Execution
- Completing the Onboarding
- Nautobot Summary
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Secrets Management: Hashicorp Vault
- Setting Up Docker Compose for Vault
- Initial Vault Setup
- Managing Secrets
- Hashicorp Vault Summary
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Telegraf
- Metrics Pipeline
- Data Format: Tags, Fields, and Measurements
- Input Plugins
- Processor Plugins
- Output Plugins
- Telegraf Configuration
- gNMI and Streaming Telemetry
- Telegraf Configuration - gNMI
- SNMP Metrics
- Normalizing Data
- Enriching Data
- Generating Telegraf Configurations
- Generating the Config
- Telegraf Summary
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Prometheus
- Scraping
- Telegraf Setup
- Querying Data
- Alertmanager
- Alert Rules
- Prometheus Summary
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Grafana
- Getting Started With Grafana
- Adding Your First Dashboards
- Grafana Summary
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NGINX
- NGINX Configuration
- Docker Network Visual
- Docker Compose Updates
- Starting of NGINX and All Containers
- Server Utilization
- NGINX Summary
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Open Source Network Management
- How You Can Get Started Contributing to Open Source
- Where To Get Help
- Thank You
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