johann is a web-based network device monitoring tool for Cisco IOS XE devices. Collect configuration and operational data of your networking devices in a structured way in one single database!
Get an Overview in this YouTube Video!
- Add single or multiple devices (.csv file) at once to the johann SQLite database
- Show device information on a structured web-dashboard
- Update all device information
- Show simple report graphs
- Export database as .xlsx
- Toolset:
- Enable RESTCONF on a single IOS XE device
- Test RESTCONF: Get current configuration in JSON format
- Show logs
- ASR 1000
- ASR 900 RSP2/RSP3, ASR 920, NCS 520 and NCS 4200
- Catalyst 9200,9300,9400,9500,9600,9800
- Catalyst 8000V
- CSR 1000v
- ESS 3x00
- IR 1101
- IE 3x00
- ISR 1000
- ISR 4000
*RESTCONF needs to be supported in the IOS XE version!
johann is easy installable:
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Install Docker Engine and Docker Compose (already included on macOS and Windows)
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Then copy & paste into terminal (on Linux you may need to start Docker with a non-root user):
git clone https://github.com/flopach/johann-network-device-monitoring &&
cd johann-network-device-monitoring/docker/ &&
docker-compose up
After all containers are up, you can access the web-dashboard via http://localhost.
(size: 11MB)
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Are only IOS XE devices supported? - For now, yes only IOS XE devices.
What YANG modules do you use? - Cisco IOS-XE native YANG models only.
johann does not get _______ operational/configuration data! - Feel free to add it or send a feature request.
Why is some information empty in the johann database? - The RESTCONF interface of the device did not provide this information.
What is the password for Database admin? - You can set the Django superuser in the ./docker/johann/Dockerfile. The default is admin/admin123 to acess the database.
johann does not support ______ ! - Please put in a feature request of feel free to add this feature!
When stopping Docker, what data will be saved? And where? - The whole SQLite database and .log file will be saved in docker/johann/stickydata/.
- Currently, only timezone UTC is supported
- Devices can only be deleted via Django Database Manager
- Passwords are not encrypted in the database
High-level architecture
Sequence diagram for adding devices
- Django + Django Channels
- Redis
- Cisco UI Kit
- jQuery
- Featured Python Libraries: Requests, Netmiko (just for enabling RESTCONF), Matplotlib
0.1.0 - Initial Release
- Florian Pachinger - Initial work - flopach
This project is licensed under the Cisco Sample Code License 1.1 - see the LICENSE.md file for details