# Multi-Vendor Network Monitoring Platform

> Monitor Cisco APIC, FMC, NDO, ISE, Palo Alto, FortiGate, Juniper SRX, VMware vCenter, routers, and switches from one self-hosted platform: health checks, change detection, and discovery.

Last updated: June 2026

Monitoring across the multi-vendor estate (Cisco APIC, NDO, FMC, ISE, Palo Alto, FortiGate, Juniper SRX, VMware vCenter, routers, switches):

- **Health checks every 2 minutes**: HTTPS and TCP reachability with per-device latency.
- **Change detection** with admin attribution and volatile-field filtering.
- **Endpoint discovery** without a CMDB, correlated from MAC tables, ARP, DHCP snooping, CDP/LLDP, 802.1X, and an offline IEEE OUI database.
- **CIS compliance checks**: 140+ automated checks for IOS-XE, NX-OS, IOS-XR, and ASA.
- **Metrics & forwarding**: a Prometheus endpoint and RFC5424 syslog.
- **Reports & exports**: any table exports to CSV, XLSX, HTML, or PDF.

Unlike SNMP-based tools, SAMURAI reads native APIs and SSH, so it answers "what changed and who changed it," not just "is it up."

## SAMURAI vs traditional SNMP monitoring suites

| | SAMURAI | SolarWinds / PRTG / Zabbix |
|---|---|---|
| Data plane | Configuration state read over native APIs and SSH, the way an engineer would | SNMP polling, agents, and flow collectors |
| What you catch | Configuration changes with admin attribution, policy drift, compliance regressions | Interface utilization, up/down state, performance baselines |
| Setup | One self-hosted container; device types auto-detected, no per-sensor licensing | Per-device SNMP/agent setup; sensor- or element-based licensing |
| Performance graphs | Not our focus: no bandwidth graphing or NetFlow analytics today | Their core strength: counters, flows, and long-term performance history |

## Frequently asked questions

### What is network monitoring software?

Network monitoring software continuously checks the health, configuration, and inventory of network devices (firewalls, switches, routers, controllers) and alerts you when something changes or breaks. SAMURAI does this across the multi-vendor estate from one self-hosted dashboard: health checks, configuration change detection, endpoint discovery, and compliance.

### Is SAMURAI real-time network monitoring?

Health checks run every 2 minutes and configuration syncs run continuously in the background; completed syncs push updates to the dashboard instantly. For any view you can also bypass the cache and query the device live.

### Does SAMURAI use SNMP or agents?

No agents and no SNMP polling required. SAMURAI talks to controllers and firewalls over their native APIs and to routers and switches over SSH, the same way an engineer would, just continuously.

### What scale does it handle?

Production deployments run multi-vendor fleets with thousands of correlated endpoints; endpoint queries return in 100-300 ms.

### How does alerting work?

Email, Telegram, and webhook notifications for sync failures and compliance regressions, plus a Prometheus endpoint if you want to alert from your own stack.

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Canonical page: https://nometa.az/en/network-monitoring/
Part of SAMURAI, a self-hosted, multi-vendor network monitoring & security platform. Overview: https://nometa.az/llms.txt
Contact: info@nometa.az · Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/beyrak44/samurai