Troubleshooting

Here's how you can test your installation of switchmap-ng.

Testing Operation After Installation

There are a number of steps to take to make sure you have installed switchmap-ng correctly. This section explains how to do basic testing before putting switchmap-ng into production.

Start the API Interactively

Start the switchmap-ng API interactively.

(venv) $ bin/switchmap_dashboard --start

Start the Poller Interactively

The poller will need to be running prior to testing.

(venv) $ bin/switchmap_poller --start

Testing Polling

You can test your SNMP configuration and connectivity to your devices using the switchmap_poller_test.py utility like this:

(venv) $ bin/tools/switchmap_poller_test.py --hostname HOSTNAME

If you have setup switchmap-ng as a system daemon with a daemon_directory: value /var/run you will need to specify the venv path to python3 first.

(venv) $ sudo venv/bin/python3 bin/tools/switchmap_poller_test.py --hostname HOSTNAME

If successful it will print the entire contents of the polled data on the screen.

Test API Functionality

Testing the API is easy. Just visit the following URL:

http://hostname/switchmap

A sample system startup script can be found in the examples/linux/systemd/switchmap_poller.service file. Follow the instructions in the file to make changes to the startup operation of the poller daemon.

Note: There will be no visible output when the poller is running. The poller logs its status to the log/switchmap.log file by default. You will be able to see this interaction dynamically by running the following command:

$ tail -f etc/switchmap.log