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SNMP Autodiscovery

SNMP Autodiscovery

Scan through your subnets and build an inventory of SNMP-enabled network devices.

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The "Generic network overview" dashboard offers a single pane of glass view over the key extension findings, including the extended network built through neighbor discovery.Build an inventory of all your network devices. Each device recommends a specialized extension that can provide monitoring insights.Reach your data easily through this convenient overview dashboard.
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Overview

This ActiveGate extension takes subnets and ranges of IP addresses along with SNMP credentials and scans through them to discover SNMP-enabled network devices. The devices are then reported as entities acting as an entry point to specialized extension configurations.

This is intended for users who:

  • Want to simplify the onboarding of network device monitoring in Dynatrace
  • Require a single pane of glass view over all network technologies

This extension enables you to:

  • Get an overview of all network devices, regardless of technology
  • Find out which Dynatrace Extension can best monitor each device
  • Access all extension network data in one place

Use cases

  • Build an inventory of SNMP-enabled network devices
  • Understand which extension Dynatrace recommends for further monitoring & insights
  • Enable the use of the Discovery & Coverage App for automatically setting up network monitors and extension configurations for the discovered devices
  • Understand your extended network in terms of device to device connectivity along with port & interface details

Get started

For more information on the installation and configuration, please see SNMP Autodiscovery extension in the Dynatrace Documentation.

Details

Compatibility information

  • SNMP v2c or v3 (supported parameters are detailed here)
  • Minimum ActiveGate version 1.280
  • Minimum Dynatrace version 1.280
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Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
Devices OKsfm.snmp_autodiscovery.devices_okThe amount of addresses that responded to the scanner query as part of a given configuration.Count
Devices scannedsfm.snmp_autodiscovery.devices_scannedThe total amount of addresses that were scanned by the extension as part of a given configuration.Count
Scan durationsfm.snmp_autodiscovery.scan_durationThe time the extension took to scan through all addresses that are part of a given configuration.NanoSecond

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To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.
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🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Added dt.security_context field to discovered network devices and interfaces.

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⚠️ WARNING ⚠️: Possible breaking changes and warnings - PLEASE READ before upgrading:

  • This version requires a minimum Dynatrace version of 1.338.0 and a minimum ActiveGate version of 1.330.0
  • This version includes a breaking change for Dynatrace on Grail:
    • With the inclusion of OpenPipeline processing rules, any logs ingested from the extension will be processed by a dedicated OpenPipeline pipeline instead of the classic log pipeline.
    • This means that classic rules will no longer be used on logs ingested from the extension. Please be sure to migrate any requiered rules to OpenPipeline rules.
    • Additionally, some field names are handled differently in OpenPipeline, e.g. capitalization. Please double-check any custom dashboards and alerts you have created for this extension.
    • You must opt-in to OpenPipeline configuration via Settings API – see the documentation.
  • This version also requires a mandatory configuration change for Dynatrace SaaS:
    • The entity queries that were executed via the Environment API have now been migrated to DQL using the Platform API. As such, instead of an Access Token, the configuration now requires a Platform Token with storage:buckets:read and storage:smartscape:read scopes

✨ New in this version:

  • Additional advanced configuration parameters added for the SNMP scanner. These allow complete control over concurrency and resource limits for the scanner
  • Additional configuration details added to support proxy connections to the Dynatrace APIs

SaaS Only

  • Smartscape on Grail

🚀 Improved in this version:

  • Improved debug logging. The extension execution logs are more verbose and aggregated which should help troubleshooting
  • Neighbor discovery now leverages CDP protocol in addition to LLDP

SaaS Only

  • Platform queries now use DQL
  • The logs produced align with the Semantic Dictionary model for network
  • Network devices are de-duplicated based on Chassis MAC address

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Fixed in this version

  • Loose topology dimension requirements would sometimes result in unnamed network device entities created. This has been fixed by requiring the additional sys.name dimension to be present on all metrics.

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🚀 Improved in this version (3.2.16):

  • Adjusted naming of interface dimensions for traffic metrics.

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Fixed in this version:

  • Interfaces & Ports for network neighbor entities were not correctly created

Improved in this version:

  • Legacy com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.lldp_neighbor metric fully removed from the model and topology rules

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✨ New in this version (3.2.13):

  • Added metric metadata definitions for unicast/multicast/broadcast packet transmission.
  • Added debug log flag in extension configuration for troubleshooting.

🚀 Improved in this version:

  • Improved detection of interface names in LLDP neighbor resolution.
    • Extension will now match detected network interfaces to discovered ports via MAC address and create a relationship.
    • If local(7) subtype is found, it will be treated as interface name.

🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Corrected treatment of whitelisted devices that could lead to neighbor discovery being stopped.

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✨ New in this version (3.2.10):

  • Added 2 new metric metadata definitions.

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Fixed in this version:

  • Network Device entities would be created for every IP Address, even if unresponsive

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Improvements:

  • Neighbor discovery queries have been optimized for large devices with lots of interfaces
  • Specialized extension recommendations now include the extensions for HP H3C and ICF Switches

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Fixed in this version:

  • Entities created through neighbor discovery were missing relationships between them

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Fixed in this version:

  • Syslog data is linked to its own entity which is then linked to network:device to not overcrowd the Infrastructure & Operations App view

  • For neighbor discovery, in some cases, a Physical Port would be wrongly reported as an Interface in the logs & dashboard data.

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🐛 Bugs fixed in this version:

  • Fixes bug in platform dashboard in which links were referencing the incorrect tenant

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New in this version:

  • Security Context is applied to all entities. Do not configure this if you would rather control it from one of the specialised SNMP extensions (e.g. F5, Cisco, Juniper, etc.)
  • The metrics metadata was expanded to include Interface Errors (In/Out) and Discards (In/Out)

Improved in this version:

  • An ignore rule was configured for devices whose System Object IDs start with "1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.3.2". These typically identify full linux servers, so they shouldn't be considered as "network devices" to be discovered.

Fixed in this version:

  • The Classic dashboard tile for log records would not fetch any records

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New in this version

  • Neighbor discovery

    • A new configuration switch has been added to enable Neighbor Discovery.
    • With this feature, every discovered device that is SNMP enabled will also be queried for Network Neighbors. Neighbors are other devices connected to the queried device which advertise themselves via LLDP protocol. It is down to each individual device to have this protocol enabled and accurately configured to broadcast correct data.
  • Platform dashboard

    • A "Generic network overview" dashboard is now available with the extension
    • This visualizes some of the key findings of the extension, along with the new network neighbors data.

Improved in this version

  • Custom timeout

    • A new configuration field allows setting a custom timeout for SNMP operations
    • In cases where the extension is reporting "No SNMP response received before timeout" for device groups you know are SNMP enabled, you may increase the value past the default of 1 second to compensate for network & device latency.
    • ⚠️ Warning this proportionately increases the duration of the scan as every address will be awaited longer.
  • Lower cost from log ingestion

    • The extension now produces a more optimized log record format which is expected to reduce cost especially in situations where multiple configurations are created.

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Fixed in this version:

  • glibc dependency introduced by cryptography package was lowered to 2.17, allowing more Linux distributions to run the extension.

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Fixed in this version:

  • Bandwidth property on network:interface corrected to MegaBitPerSecond unit
  • oper.status dimension on some interface metrics was incorrectly labelled as "MAC address"
  • cryptography package explicitly listed as a dependency. This would cause "ciphering services not available" error on some installations.

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Fixed in this version:

  • Operational & Admin status attributes are missing for network:interface entity

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Improved in this version:

  • Network devices are discovered even with partial data available
  • Extension log files contain a more detailed breakdown of SNMP errors seen across devices
  • Configuration parameter Performance profile renamed
  • Description & documentation for API Token updated to reflect new scopes required

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⚠️ Breaking changes introduced:

  • The configuration parameter for Threads has been removed.

  • A new configuration parameter for Performance profile was introduced.

  • Due to these changes, a direct upgrade of your monitoring configurations will not be possible.

    All configurations will have to be recreated.

Improved in this version:

  • The extension can handle 25 times the amount of IPs, in the same amount of time.
  • The extension automatically adjusts processing to stay within ActiveGate performance profile limits.

Fixed in this version:

  • Relationships between network interfaces and network ports would not be correctly identified
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