[c-nsp] OT: Router//Switches Hardware inventory

Alan Buxey A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
Tue Sep 29 18:42:42 EDT 2009


Hi,

> Do you know an open source tool for router hardware inventory? I have many
> Cisco devices with many cards inserted, and manage the inventory via Excel
> Format is hard... please any suggestion?

RANCID is pretty good at pulling the details out. you can then 
look through the resulting files for eg serial numbers , part
numbers etc. beware - its command line stuff - though you can add
a webified system with a web based CVS tool, for example.

alan


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