What are my options for monitoring devices that only support Telemetry data?
I just had my first request for Spectrum to monitor some devices that no longer support SNMP. To get information from these devices I am going to have to subscribe to their Kafka bus and consume the information that they are publishing. This will be configuration information and also announcements about issues.
I know that Spectrum's DCE can be updated to support technologies other than SNMP. In fact, we have the TL1 module for when we had to monitor TL1 devices. Has anyone built anything similar for being a consumer on a Kafka bus?
I have built a connector for Event Integration that lets me be a producer on a Kafka bus, so if I have to, I may be able to do the same for consuming. My concern is also modeling complex models (like switches and routers) that have multiple ports. That could be quite cumbersome for building out those models.
Hoping there is already a solution in place or in the works.