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No easy button here, and no one size fits all solution. What works for one org might not work for another.
We’ve had a combo of SolarWinds, Zabbix, phpipam, nagios, cacti up at various overlapping times. Sometimes the same team, sometimes different teams. Others manually update Confluence or Jira SM.
On the security end, it’s been a hassle to figure out what’s even on the network or what’s configured as what. My plan now is
-Pull inventory & config from vSphere/esxi (API, snmp,etc) and Azure
-Pull inventory and such from Aruba. Fortunately it looks like I don’t need to poll like 2000 devices and all that since I can query Airwave’s API, only hitting the one controller/management node that’s polling&monitoring that infra
-Pull data (api,snmp) from the non Aruba network gear (Juniper, PA) to monitor those and ensure other physical servers are identified if they’re plugged into switches.
-Supplement that all with any imports/queries from stuff in our SIEM (dhcp, logs, alerts, and all that)
It all seems largely doable with Netbox since I can either do initial bulk imports via CSV/JSON/YAML and maintain it via API, including whatever tools the other teams are using.
Just unsure if there’s a better tool for this. Netbox seems to work pretty well but it doesn’t handle creating objects well when referencing others so bulk imports need to be done in groups to get objects higher up in a hierarchy in there first.
For cloud I’m using Prisma Cloud, but I didn’t choose it and it’s not great. I can query configurations I’m looking for like Cloud functions exposed external. Where it sucks is I can see the GCP labels in the UI but can’t export them in the CSV. No API. I like API solutions because I can join data, manipulate, automate in Python and build reports.