Add other devices and routing elements

Relevant for: AFA Administrators

This topic describes how to add monitoring and routing devices and routing elements.

Note: For details about adding devices of specific vendor types to AFA, or importing device data from CSV files, see Add devices to AFA and CSV import file format.

Tip: Alternatively, you can add and edit devices via API. See Add/Edit a device.

Add monitoring and routing devices

This procedure describes how to add the following types of monitoring and routing devices to AFA:

  • Avaya – Routing Switch
  • Brocade VDX
  • Cisco ACE
  • HP H3C Routers
  • Juniper Secure Access (SSL VPN)
  • Juniper Routers (non-M/E)
  • Linux Netfilter IPtables
  • SECUI MF2
  • Topsec Firewall

Note: These devices support change monitoring, routing analysis, and baseline configuration compliance only.

Do the following:

  1. Access the Devices Setup page. For details, see Access the DEVICES SETUP page.
  2. In the vendor and device selection page, select your device type.
  3. Complete the following fields as needed, and then click Finish.

    The fields displayed may differ depending on your device brand and selections.

    The new device is added to the device tree.

  4. If you selected Set user permissions, the Edit users dialog box appears.

    In the list of users displayed, select one or more users to provide access to reports for this account.

    To select multiple users, press the CTRL button while selecting.

    Click OK to close the dialog.

  5. A success message appears to confirm that the device is added.

Add routing elements

This procedure describes how to add routing elements to AFA.

Routing elements are generic devices that perform SNMP connections for retrieving routing tables, without collecting configurations.

Note: AFA supports routing elements using SNMPv2c and SNMPv3. The supported MIB is RFC-1213, and the OID fetched from the device is ipRouteEntry (object identifier: 1.3.6.1.2.1.4.21.1).

We do not recommend adding devices as routing elements if they have a non-standard routing deployment in addition to the standard RFC1213, such as Cisco Routers. For these devices, the SNMP response does not include crucial information, mainly concerning VRF instances.

Do the following:

  1. Access the Devices Setup page. For details, see Access the DEVICES SETUP page.
  2. In the vendor and device selection page, click Routing Element on the right.
  3. Complete the following fields as needed and click Finish.

    The new device is added to the device tree.

  4. If you selected Set user permissions, the Edit users dialog box appears.

    In the list of users displayed, select one or more users to provide access to reports for this account.

    To select multiple users, press the CTRL button while selecting.

    Click OK to close the dialog.

  5. A success message appears to confirm that the device is added.