LibreNMS Networks Maps

[@jaredbater6229]

Nice! Never used the logical maps before. I do use GPS in our units in the field to auto populate the SNMP location string which librenms show us on the geo map. Cool trick .

[@johnbaldwin143]

Never knew about LibreNMS but I do now thanks Paul.

[@TallPaulTech]

I'm pretty sure I did a video about it in the past.

[@johnbaldwin143]

@@TallPaulTech Sorry to have missed it. been quite unwell over the last few years.

[@TheRealStevenPolley]

Thanks for this, never heard of LibreNMS but going to check it out now. Looks like a better option for home use than PRTG.

[@jamess1787]

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[@TheJensss]

Great video! Adding the complete network structure to something like this would be great documentation

[@TallPaulTech]

Like a live network diagram

[@SireSquish]

He's Aussie, but with a Kiwi accent.

[@nickswebtsv]

Thanks for taking the time to look into what I too was too lazy to investigate. I might setup a few maps for me too!

[@TallPaulTech]

Yeah, it's one of those things that when you finally get around to, you think... well that was easy.

[@paulierco]

Nice to see LibreNMS. I introduce it at work and we currently monitor more than 3000 switches (stacks) that sum more than 9000 units.

[@TallPaulTech]

All from one box? That's some serious polling.

[@paulierco]

@@TallPaulTech No. 10 pollers + 1 mysql. Probably it work from one poller but I need a server with 256 cores :)

[@repairstudio4940]

Wow that's pretty great! Not complicated as some Cisco maps can be.

[@HTP_]

Would be cool if it used LLDP to help make some of the maps

[@TallPaulTech]

It does try to use LLDP for discovery, and I'd say that plays a part in its automatic map generation. I just like doing my own ones how I like them.

[@nerdegem]

That looks really neat; will have to give that app a go. It feels like someone needs to write an auto edge connector that can at least suggest what it looks like the connected ports possibly are - must be in the ARP tables ?

[@hottractor1999]

Was thinking the same thing. MAC to MAC connections.

[@twentyrothmans7308]

I worked with software that produced maps eliciting the same reaction as yours - FH. What I really want for this sort of thing is done from the CLI, so that I can parse it, reproduce it, and export it. Thanks for the iperf, I'd forgotten about that.

[@AtreidaeChibiko]

This reminds me of building maps in "The Dude" (Mikrotik's free monitoring app) when I worked at an ISP

[@FinlayDaG33k]

I'm currently using TheDude but might toy with LibreNMS after seeing this. TheDude is just really sluggish and overall pretty limited (can't have the same device on 2 maps, that is already a huge limitation).

[@TallPaulTech]

The best part about LibreNMS is how natural it fits together and presents what you need.

[@AtreidaeChibiko]

@@FinlayDaG33k the only really benefit I see to the dude these days is that you can have remote mikrotiks run the agent so you don't have to have SNMP flying over the network. It was a much bigger concern when I only had 1.5mbit of satellite backhall for 500 customers

[@2008spoonman]

Zabbix user here. Also has maps and visual aids. But a pain to configure. Will try LibreNMS. 👍🏼

[@chrisdixon5241]

Nice one! Looks like another piece of software I need to install and investigate! :)

[@AV-th6kn]

Paul, please show how to install LibreNMS in a Proxmox LXC.

[@zenmaster24]

can you reorganise that autodiscovered mess to be more readable?

[@berndeckenfels]

Why do you have the edges and ports manually? Would be good when visibility and location on the map can be deduced from attributes („building“) automatically

[@seanwilkinson2291]

Hey thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea!

[@TecraTube]

need that in my life. looks really nice. when you said it's live now, how is it tracking? you have port mirroring on switch and running a router thats using some software to track? 100% gigabit saturation, noice

[@jamiiacademy]

I have installed the latest version but this feature is not available.

[@BurkenProductions]

Nice one! Never bothered with that either! But I guess I will now! :D Too bad it cant update dynamically. Guess I need to script it directly from the database.

[@Kieran28]

Will this work with unmanaged switches?

[@gamebeastde]

Nope, you need Snmp or something like that

[@captmulch1]

Good one Paul!

[@davocc2405]

Will this run on a Pi 2 with a simple network? I haven't been down this rabbit hole yet.

[@TonyMurray]

Absolutely

[@DiegoBarrios]

Very useful. Thanks!

[@isaacd9595]

I don't see the Custom Map Editor button. My maps section is under Overview, it's not it's own button in the menu like yours shows. How do I add custom maps?

[@TonyMurray]

You need to be on the latest version of LibreNMS.

[@mathschut505]

Hi, I just reinstalled Libre from the finished OVA template. Now I've added a few switches and servers. Why don't I have the Maps button in my main overview at all, what am I doing wrong?

[@francisuk1989]

The Virtualization OVA image software is dated 2023 so might not have it.

[@mathschut505]

@@francisuk1989 thx

[@savitar3541]

Did you make default librenms user "Admin" priviliges? And did you updated with pull?

[@majiddehbi9186]

great videos i hope more

[@simonnaughton2272]

This looks a bit like weather map for cacti. Is this same thing?

[@TheShinyGuru]

That's what I thought - I've not used Cacti in a few years, but the maps and graphs all had a bit of deja vu going on - I remember the tedium of building switch maps with 48 ports each plus interlinks.

[@shykitten55]

This looks interesting. Just out of interest: You in Oz? The way you were talking and stuff, seems very familiar.

[@Kieran28]

Yeah mate

[@TenForceFalls]

I have a project to do now. Finals or lebrenms. What shall be my fate.

[@JimWattsHereNow]

Crap that is great

[@anthonynowlan9765]

150% link?

[@FinlayDaG33k]

For when say, a VLAN is limited to 50Mbps during "normal" operation but is allowed to take 75Mbps for 60 seconds (burst) if there is bandwidth to spare. At that point, it'd show 150%.