3 years ago

Category: PHP

Just as we have to monitor our infrastructure to keep Sonar running smoothly, an ISP has to monitor their network to catch issues before they happen, or respond to outages. There are a myriad network monitoring solutions on the market, from open source platforms like Zabbix, to commercial offerings like SolarWinds, and many, many more in between.

Due to this, if you go and peruse the code for the poller, you will notice quite a few workarounds for these kinds of situations — in the case of Ubiquiti as an example, we have to perform subsequent queries to find more data about a device and determine what kind of device it is.

While this is not optimal, it’s better than nothing, and these custom device mappers that we are adding to the Sonar poller mean that we can work around these kinds of obstacles to bring more value to the maps, charts, and graphs inside Sonar.

One of the great things about all this work we do to collect and map this data is that we make it all available via our API, and that’s meant many of our partners have taken advantage of this to improve their products and, in turn, make Sonar even more useful for our mutual customers.