New Relic Juniper Plugin

The Juniper Plugin enables integrated monitoring of your Juniper Network devices inside of New Relic. Currently the following metrics are recorded:

Per Routing Engine metrics

• CPU / Memory usage

• Temperature

Interface metrics

• Inbound / Outbound bandwitdh

• Inbound / Outbound packets per second (Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast)

Requirements

Proxy host

You need a host to install the plugin on that is able to poll the desired equipment via SNMP. That host also needs Ruby (tested with 1.8.7 and 1.9.3), and support for rubygems.

Juniper Equipment

A read-only SNMP community is required for each device to be monitored. Currently, only SNMP version 2c is supported.

Installation and Running Instructions

1 - create an installation directory (i.e. /opt/newrelic_plugins/)

2 - cd to /opt/newrelic_plugins/

3 - run the following command to clone the project on your system:

• git clone github.com/jthurman42/newrelic_juniper_plugin.git

4 - change directory to newrelic_juniper_plugin

5 - run the following command to install/update the dependencies:

• bundle install

6 - edit config/newrelic_plugin.yml and make sure to specify proper values for the following properties:

• license_key # change YOUR_LICENSE_KEY_HERE with license key of your New Relic’ asccount

• hostname # juniper app to connect to

• port # pstening ort number

• snmp_community # community key

• interface_indexes # interface indexes (ifindex)

7 - run the plugin:

• bundle exec ./bin/juniper_monitor run -c config/newrelic_plugin.yml

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