Cacti and Nagios generally poll via SNMP. This means the traffic is generally NAT'able. If I really needed multiple polling SNMP servers at the same address, I'd just throw them behind some sort of NAT device.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 8:13 AM Dovid Bender <do...@telecurve.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > A bit off topic. One of my early mistakes in my 9-5 was hard coding the IP's > of our SNMP box in all of our gear (networking equipment, Servers etc,). The > box is at its limit and increasing its capacity will be nearly impossible. We > mainly use Nagios and Cacti to monitor our network. Going forward I was > thinking of setting up a few hosts whose job would be to simply relay SNMP > traffic. This way moving forward we could hard code several IP's and bounce > all traffic through one of these IP's. > > TIA for your advice. > > Regards, > > Dovid > -- - Forrest
