Introducing Thola – A tool for Monitoring and Provisioning Network Devices

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Thola is an open source tool that identifies, reads and monitors network devices across vendors, returning serial, model, OS family, CPU and interface metrics and storing custom fields for inventory. It exposes a lightweight client/server and CLI, runs Ansible playbooks and outputs a Nagios-compatible check mode so existing monitors (Nagios, Icinga, Zabbix, Checkmk) accept results. Live demo shows modules pulling SNMP/CLI facts, checking CPU and interfaces, and auto-updating inventory successfully.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Thola
2. 2:55Features and capabilities
3. 5:30Command line usage
4. 11:42Live demo introduction
5. 17:19Practical example setup
6. 21:59Resources and next steps

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