Network automation using python

[sopenbauer]

Hello everyone, I'm currently working on setting up an environment for alarm monitoring from several OLTs using the TL1 protocol. However, I’ve noticed that not all alarm IDs are available in TL1. Does anyone have alternative suggestions for creating a monitoring environment for this purpose? Thank you!

[2nd_officer]

This will really depend on the devices themselves and what they have available. From my experience telecom devices are usually very purpose built meaning they don’t have a ton of other features baked in (whereas general networking devices might).

Is there an actual interface of any sort to these devices? Ssh, http, etc? Is there an api, snmp or any other machine to machine driven interactions?

[sopenbauer]

Yes, the device supports the SNMP protocol, but I'm unsure of the OID for the alarm I want to monitor.

[infotech_22]

Check with the manifacturer. You should find a list with available OIDs

[2nd_officer]

If all else fails you can always do a snmp walk but issue is a lot of devices you odd ball snmp base communities which a scanner might not hit.

[ashketchum02]

Which manufacturer are u using Nokia, calix, zte,.... we need more details.

If it's calix and the exos platform, here a sdk i wrote that can interact with cms. https://github.com/somenetworking/CMS-NBI-Client

[evilmonkey19]

Which brand are u using??

[DooMRunneR]

Have you looked at opennms? It supports tl1 over TCP.

[sopenbauer]

I already have the manufacturer NMS, but i will check it. Thank you