SNMP monitoring with Auvik
Continuously track the health and performance of all your network devices to detect problems before they disrupt users
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SNMP monitoring capabilities of Auvik’s network management solution
Auvik offers industry-leading SNMP monitoring capabilities to provide comprehensive visibility into your network’s health and performance. These practical applications showcase how Auvik leverages SNMP polling, alerting, and data analysis alongside other protocols to deliver powerful network management across complex multi-vendor environments.
Monitor device health with SNMP polling
When critical network devices degrade unexpectedly, you need immediate insight into their health before end-users report problems. Auvik’s comprehensive SNMP monitoring polls your network equipment to deliver real-time health metrics directly to your dashboard.
Auvik’s SNMP monitoring software collects vital performance data, including CPU utilization, memory consumption, interface throughput, and environmental readings from your entire network infrastructure. The dashboard displays this information through dynamic time-series visualizations that show performance patterns and trends over time. The system stores historical polling data for a full year, helping you correlate events and diagnose intermittent issues. For specialized equipment or custom metrics, Auvik monitors user-defined OIDs beyond the default collection set. And while SNMP forms the foundation for device monitoring, Auvik integrates additional data sources like NetFlow statistics and syslog messages to provide network visibility through a single interface.
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Automatic network discovery and mapping via SNMP
Manually documenting your network requires a lot of time and can introduce errors, particularly in a dynamic environment that is subject to frequent changes. Auvik’s discovery engine maps your complete network topology using SNMP alongside multiple discovery protocols.
Auvik’s SNMP monitoring software combines data from SNMP, CDP, LLDP, and ARP tables to create detailed network maps that show both physical connections and logical relationships. The setup requires only SNMP credentials, after which Auvik identifies every network device, classifies its function, and documents all interconnections. For each discovered device, the system records detailed inventory information, including manufacturer, model, serial number, firmware version, and configuration status. But the topology mapping doesn’t stop there – it runs continuously in the background, detecting and incorporating changes as you commission, decommission, or reconfigure devices.
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Centralized monitoring of multi-site networks
Monitoring distributed networks forces administrators to navigate between disparate platforms or jump between isolated site-specific dashboards. Auvik unifies SNMP monitoring across all your locations into a single management interface.
With Auvik’s distributed architecture, lightweight collectors deployed at each network location gather and transmit local device data. All this information flows into one unified dashboard for monitoring the entire multi-site infrastructure. The global overview shows the operational status of each location, helping you spot sites experiencing issues. When problems occur, you can drill into specific locations to examine device metrics and troubleshoot without switching between different systems or credentials. The centralized monitoring system supports managed service provider environments and enterprise IT infrastructures with geographically dispersed locations.
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Customizable SNMP-based alerts for network events
Without proper monitoring and alerting, network issues often remain hidden until they escalate into service-impacting outages. Auvik is one of the best SNMP monitoring tools for keeping you in the loop as it includes over 50 pre-configured SNMP alert templates covering critical network events and performance indicators.
Auvik’s SNMP monitoring system allows you to customize alert parameters, including sensitivity thresholds, notification frequency, and escalation workflows. You can set unique alert thresholds for different device categories and prioritize notifications based on criticality. When conditions trigger alerts, the system routes notifications via email but can also directly integrate with enterprise systems such as ConnectWise, ServiceNow, or existing incident management platforms. And the correlation engine groups related events during widespread incidents to prevent notification floods. The alerting mechanism filters the noise that typically accompanies network monitoring.
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Bandwidth capacity planning with SNMP interface monitoring
Without visibility into network utilization trends, you often encounter unexpected bandwidth bottlenecks that disrupt your critical services and reduce productivity. Auvik’s SNMP network monitoring tracks interface statistics across your network to provide data for capacity planning.
Auvik’s SNMP software collects detailed interface counters from your routers, switches, and firewalls, capturing both inbound and outbound traffic metrics across all network segments. The SNMP management software stores this traffic data over extended periods, allowing you to review utilization patterns, growth trends, and potential congestion points. For critical links, you can configure threshold-based alerts that trigger when utilization approaches capacity limits. And while basic SNMP software shows current consumption, Auvik’s SNMP manager provides historical time-series graphs that display long-term trends in your network usage. The collected data provides valuable insights for your infrastructure planning without requiring separate data collection systems or spreadsheet analysis.
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SNMP-based fault detection and troubleshooting
When network disruptions occur, the faster you can pinpoint the underlying cause, the faster you can restore services. Auvik uses SNMP monitoring to detect network faults and provides sophisticated troubleshooting tools.
Auvik’s SNMP monitoring software evaluates device health indicators to identify emerging problems before they become critical — whether component failures, connectivity disruptions, or performance degradation. During troubleshooting, technicians use both live metrics and historical baseline data to spot anomalies and changes. The system displays detailed diagnostic information within context-aware device dashboards, showing which specific interfaces, components, or services have failed. For intermittent issues, historical polling data reveals patterns and correlations hidden during real-time monitoring. The fault detection and diagnostic troubleshooting system works across multiple interdependent devices and distributed locations.
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See your entire network — mapped & monitored
Every device, site, and connection—clearly visible, always up to date.
- Instantly create a live map of your network
- See every device and connection in one place
- Get automated alerts to detect issues fast
- Achieve full network visibility in under an hour
Learn more about SNMP monitoring at Auvik
What is SNMP monitoring?
SNMP monitoring provides visibility into the health and performance of all devices on your network by tracking metrics like utilization, temperatures, and interface statistics through simple data collection using the ubiquitous SNMP protocol. This allows you to detect potential issues across routers, switches, servers, and more.
What is the purpose of SNMP monitoring?
The purpose of SNMP monitoring is to maintain continuous oversight of the status of critical network components. By tracking CPU, memory usage, bandwidth, errors, and environmental metrics in real-time, you can identify abnormal resource consumption, performance degradation, and hardware faults as they emerge. This prevents problems from escalating into costly outages and allows optimization of workloads.
What is SNMP management software?
SNMP management software provides a centralized way to collect and analyze SNMP data from all devices across your infrastructure. This consolidates the monitoring, mapping, and management of your entire network fabric into a single intuitive platform. Critical capabilities include automated discovery, customized alerts, device diagnostics, topology visualization, and rich historical reporting.
How does SNMP monitoring work with Auvik’s network management solution?
Auvik leverages SNMP polling to continuously gather granular metrics from network components for real-time and historic analysis. Device data is stored to establish baselines and reveal trends over time. If predefined thresholds are crossed, the system triggers alerts to enable proactive management. Auvik also uses SNMP for automatic network discovery and mapping.
What is the advantage of using SNMP to monitor a network?
Using SNMP for network monitoring offers a wide range of advantages, including its widespread compatibility across most network hardware and platforms, extensive support for collecting granular performance and health data, and interoperability using a standardized protocol instead of specialized agents.
What SNMP versions does Auvik support?
Auvik supports monitoring devices using SNMP v1, v2c, or v3, depending on the security and complexity requirements of each environment. This offers you a lot of flexibility across a variety of network configurations.
What other protocols does Auvik’s network management solution use alongside SNMP?
Besides SNMP polling for device metrics, Auvik also integrates NetFlow, Syslog, CLI, REST APIs, and more to correlate metrics, configurations, traffic flows, and events into unified visibility and control across multi-vendor networks.
