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

Features

• 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

 

Supported Devices*

• 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 3×00
• ESS 3×00
• IE 3×00
• ISR 1000
• ISR 4000

*RESTCONF needs to be supported in the IOS XE version!

 

Installation

I installed it on Ubuntu, otherwise visit source website on Github.

 

Install Docker Engine

sudo apt-get update  

sudo apt-get install \
    apt-transport-https \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg |
sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

Install Docker Compose

sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.23.1/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose &&
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Install johann Network Device Monitoring

git clone https://github.com/flopach/johann-network-device-monitoring &&
cd johann-network-device-monitoring/docker/

Start docker

systemctl start docker

You may need to start Docker with a non-root user

docker-compose up

After all steps has been done, you can access the web-dashboard via http://localhost or 0.0.0.0

 

Screenshots

For more information, updates, FAQs and support, please visit johann Network Device Monitoring

Additional, watch my created video about it.