NetMRI collects, organizes, and displays information in an array of customizable tables, graphs, and reports covering virtually every aspect of network operations. Infoblox dedicates its efforts to allow its customers to make effective use of this data, as easily as possible. Infoblox provides several ways to integrate with NetMRI, with varying degrees of simplicity, flexibility, and power.

User Interface Exports

NetMRI information and result displays can be exported as CSV files, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and PDF documents. Before developing a program to extract data from the NetMRI database using the API, determine whether it is easier to obtain the needed information through the GUI.

Notifications

When significant events occur, notifications allow external users and systems to receive an e-mail, Syslog, or SNMP traps from NetMRI. This method of integration is the simplest for most one-way, system-to-system solutions. You can use the NetMRI user interface to configure the notifications of interest, filter out those that are not important, and set delivery time windows and destinations. See the NetMRI online help topics under Event Notifications and System Health Monitoring for more details.

NetMRI Application Programming Interface

The NetMRI Application Programming Interface (API) enables external programs to retrieve information about devices, interfaces, VLANs, and other network entities from the NetMRI database. It also enables programs to retrieve information about neighbor relationships between devices, and send commands to NetMRI. This is the most powerful method of integrating with NetMRI, and the most difficult. API integration requires knowledge of Perl or other programming languages. For more information, see the Infoblox NetMRI API Developer's Guide and the NetMRI API under Tools icon > Network > API Documentation.