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Open‑Source Monitoring in Practice: Building Full‑Link Monitoring for H3C Devices with HCL, Categraf, Nightingale, and Prometheus
This article walks through the end‑to‑end setup of a low‑cost, open‑source monitoring system for H3C switches using HCL simulator, Categraf for SNMP data collection, Nightingale for alerting and visualization, and Prometheus for time‑series storage, detailing tool selection, environment preparation, configuration, and result verification.
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