gNMIc — On Your Marks, GET / SET / Subscribe / Collect#

Nardus le Roux - Nokia | IP Consulting Systems Engineer

• Why: The SNMP-polling-to-streaming-telemetry shift is the network-ops equivalent of a transition the cloud-native world already made; this session covers a concrete, open-source tool an operator can deploy this quarter.
• What: An introduction to gNMIc — a scalable gNMI collector with full protocol support (GET / SET / Subscribe / Collect) — and how it delivers continuous visibility into network state, moving beyond SNMP-based monitoring toward a data-rich operational model (from abstract only).
• How: Devices expose state via gNMI Subscribe RPCs; gNMIc collects, aggregates, and feeds the stream into downstream operational systems, replacing periodic polling with event-driven telemetry.
• Where applicable: Broadly applicable to any environment with gNMI-capable devices (most modern router/switch OSes) — multi-vendor and not org-specific. The speaker is Nokia consulting staff, but gNMIc is a community open-source project, so this reads as tool adoption rather than a product pitch.