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Solarwinds NCM
The prerequisites for running the NCM in GNS3 are the following:
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Here are some notes if you are going to try this out in a virtual environment.
If you are running this on a physical machine, you would simply need your computer running GNS3
and the machine with NCM plugged into a switch on the same VLAN.
However, this is a tutorial on how to get this to run in GNS3, so the rest of the document is laid out
to accomplish this.
Set the VMs NIC to NAT. For some reason, because the VM is running on the same machine as
GNS3, having the NIC bridged would not allow SNMP to transit between the two. I could ping all
day (and boy could I) but no SNMP or login info would transit. Once I clicked over to NAT SNMP/
login worked fine. If my NCM was running on a separate physical computer, Bridging would work fine.
Understanding what setting works in Virtualbox is a critical step. Having said all that, use NAT for the
rest of this tutorial.
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Being familiar with your Virtualbox and where to change the settings for the network adapter is a
required skill.
Lets create a Loopback adapter for connecting GNS3 to the rest of my network.
If you are familiar with creating loopbacks in Windows prior to 8.1, skip this section. For those of you
who are not familiar, or those who use Windows 8.1, I recommend a separate document, How to
create a Loopback Interface to work with GNS3 on Windows 8.1.
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Click on Manage
Click next
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Next
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Restart your computer now (this is so GNS3 will detect the Loopback).
Something worth noting that I discovered a while back: if you ever move the cloud once built, there
is a chance you will not regain network connectivity to your physical network. You will either need to
restart your computer or you can try a couple different things. Try each, one at a time and if you still
cant ping try the next one.
Delete your windows arp cache from cmd.exe netsh interface ip delete arpcache
Delete the cloud and delete the bridge via network connection page and then rebridge and
rebuild the cloud
Delete the cloud, bridge then save and close GNS3, restart compter and GNS3 then rebuild
cloud and bridge and do a manual reload on your devices.
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Next cable your Router to the Cloud and power the router up
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Lets add the configs for the NCM portion (SNMP community strings)
Now the access info for NCM to access the device (username, password, enable password, vty)
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Lets create a decent sized topology to try out some of the tools in NCM. In the picture below, you
can see that I have added a few more devices and put them all into the NCM. The switches are all
Etherswitch routers so I can have them running SNMP as well, I just changed their symbols.
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NCM will login to the devices and pull the running config to our local computers TFTP-root file or
where ever you have it set up to go on your NCM.
As you can see each device now has a config listed in the Node list.
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Next for the sake of the senario, I forgot to add a login banner to all the nodes. Now I could login to
each device and paste the config. Or I could use the Script application and send the config to any or
all of the nodes. Click on the Script icon then highlight the nodes you would like to push the script
out to. Type in the config as you would if you were in the CLI, including exit, wr etc.. and hit execute.
(Double check before pushing something to your entire network ;)
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Here you can see the script scrolling down as it sends and completes each node.
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Just to verify that our login banner was pushed out, we will use the build in telnet app to telnet to all
the nodes. Select the nodes you wish to access, then click the telnet icon (circled in orange) and as
you can see, the login banner was pushed to all the nodes and we are good to go.
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That concludes this tutorial on connecting GNS3 to Solarwinds Orion NCM. I hope I found the balance
on this how-to and all experience levels were able to benefit.
Thanks for reading!
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