Cumulus Networks Case Study

Cumulus Networks published a new case study about my work with them on my recent datacenter network rebuild using Cumulus Linux on Dell Open Networking switches and about how we have used Cumulus NetQ as fabric validation system. Have a look and read the case study here: Link: https://cumulusnetworks.com/customers/smartgames-technologies/ Cumulus also published a press release a …

Network Monitoring with Prometheus and Cumulus Linux

As promised in my previous article Install Prometheus and Grafana, this post is about how to monitor Cumulus Linux switches with Prometheus. Let’s start directly by installing the Prometheus Node_Exporter: sudo useradd –no-create-home –shell /bin/false node_exporter tar xvf node_exporter-0.15.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz sudo cp node_exporter-0.15.1.linux-amd64/node_exporter /usr/local/bin sudo chown node_exporter:node_exporter /usr/local/bin/node_exporter sudo bash -c ‘cat << EOF > /etc/systemd/system/node_exporter.service [Unit] …

Ansible Playbook for Cumulus Linux BGP IP-Fabric and Cumulus NetQ Validation

This is my Ansible Playbook for a Cumulus Linux BGP IP-Fabric using BGP unnumbered and Cumulus NetQ to validate the configuration in a CICD pipeline. I use the same CICD pipeline from my previous post about Continuous Integration and Delivery for Networking with Cumulus Linux but added the Cumulus NetQ validation in the production stage to check …