Monitoring Cisco Catalyst 2960 with MetricFire

To integrate Cisco Catalyst 2960 with MetricFire, please sign up for a free 14 day trial. We want to fully understand your requirements and monitoring goals, so we can advise you on how to obtain better visibility into your infrastructure. Please book a demo with us so we can show you how quick and easy it is to get meaningful data into your MetricFire account, and use that data to build custom dashboards and alerts.

Cisco Catalyst 2960 is a line of switches used in enterprise network environments. These switches offer a range of features, including security, quality of service, and energy efficiency.

Integrating the Cisco Catalyst 2960 with Metricfire allows organizations to take advantage of the network performance monitoring capabilities provided by the Metricfire platform. This integration provides real-time visibility into the performance and health of the network, helping organizations to quickly identify and resolve potential issues before they escalate into more serious problems.

The following steps can be followed to integrate the Cisco Catalyst 2960 with Metricfire:

• Connect the switch to the Metricfire platform: This can be done by using the SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) protocol to send performance data from the switch to the Metricfire platform.

• Configure SNMP on the switch: To enable SNMP on the switch, navigate to the switch’s management interface and follow the steps to configure SNMP settings, such as the SNMP community string and the IP address of the Metricfire platform.

• Verify the integration: Once SNMP is configured, the switch should begin sending performance data to the Metricfire platform. This data can be viewed in the Metricfire platform to verify the integration.

With the integration of the Cisco Catalyst 2960 and Metricfire, organizations can enjoy a unified view of network performance, as well as improved network visibility and troubleshooting capabilities. This helps to ensure the smooth and reliable operation of the network and allows organizations to quickly identify and resolve potential issues.

MetricFire is a full-scale platform that provides infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source tools. We will aggregate and store your data as time series metrics, which can be used to build custom dashboards and alerts. MetricFire takes away the burden of self-hosting your own monitoring solution, allowing you more time and freedom to work on your most important tasks.

MetricFire offers a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, comprised of open-source Graphite and Grafana. MetricFire handles the aggregation, storage, and backups of your data, and offers alerting, team features, and API's for easy management of your monitoring environment. You can send server metrics using one of our agents, custom metrics from within your application code, and integration metrics from a variety of popular 3rd party services that we integrate with like Heroku, AWS, Azure, GCP, and many more!

Our Hosted Graphite product has improved upon standard Graphite to add data dimensionality, optimized storage, and offers additional tools and features that provide customers with a robust and well-rounded monitoring solution.

Benefits of Using MetricFire:

• Simple, low-cost pricing
  A structured pricing model based on total unique time series metrics allows you to work within your budget. The predictability and transparent pricing allows you to keep your costs in check and plan for the future. 1 metric is 1 metric regardless of the source, or requests sent to and from the metric namespace.
  
• Easy-to-use dashboards
  Our Hosted Dashboards provide endless options for customizing your visualizations, and allow you to share dashboards with clients.
  
• Responsive alerting
  Receive alert notifications quickly through Email, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, and custom webhooks.
  
• Freedom of customization
  Send custom application metrics through your code. Our Language Guide can help you update your codebase to send event metrics via socket connections.
  
• Fantastic customer support
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  Dedicated clusters for users that need their own environment with custom parameters. Please reach out to us for more information.