Streaming Telemetry via gNMI (gRPC) for Nokia Devices

Service Monitoring
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Hello everyone,

similar to another post on here (/t/streaming-telemetry-support/1034)
I am seeking to monitor Nokia devices via Streaming Telemetry instead of SNMP.

As far as I am aware, Nokia provides that with gNMI (built on gRPC).
See here: https://www.nokia.com/blog/streaming-telemetry-with-open-source-gnmic/

While Juniper devices may be integrated to Icinga monitoring using
openNTI (see here: OpenNTI Documentation — OpenNTI 0.0.1 documentation )
plus some sort of custom collector/plugin for Icingas REST API, I am a little lost on how to build something similar for Nokia.

If the specific Device type is of higher importance than I currently anticipate, I mainly focus on these:
Nokia MX480
Nokia 7250 IXR-e
Nokia 7750 SR-2s

A rough idea or maybe something like a prefab fragment for a receiver of sorts would be very helpful in this matter.

If more information needs to be provided, feel free to feed that back accordingly and I shall try to provide so. :wink:

Huge ‘thanks’ in advance and have a good one!

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Thanks for bringing this topic to our attention.

First, I have no experience with enterprise Nokia hardware, OpenNTI or gNMI. However, clicking a bit through their documentation, I found Prometheus and InfluxDB examples in their deployment examples.

Thus, you may be able to stream the data into a Prometheus and check this from Icinga, e.g., via https://github.com/NETWAYS/check_prometheus.

Otherwise, please feel free to share with us what you have already tried as this may be interesting for others stumbling over your post.

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Hey and thanks for your input/feedback!

The gist is, that I’d like to opt out of Prometheus, as it would seem redundant to Icinga (or any other monitoring software for that matter).
Else I could build the whole monitoring infrastructure on Prometheus directly…
But that is not that goal, as we have already deemed Prometheus not suitable for our use cases.

openConfig shares quite a bit about openNTI for Juniper, I had stumbled over that already. Since that pretty much does bear support for netconf as well I am already looking deeper into it - maybe we can ‘recycle’ that for non-Juniper devices too, but that’s yet to be evaluated.

My current headache is really just finding a streamlined and compact ‘glue’ to go between gNMI (and/or openNTI) and Icinga2 without too much of a hassle.
Smooth and simple, you get the point. :wink:

The whole setup is supposed to produce a straightforward deployment for a production environment…soon™