[c-nsp] Rancid & UDI (Unique Device Identifier) = inventory management?

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Thomas Kernen wrote:

> Is there anyone here that has been playing with Rancid and the UDI
> feature in some of the latest IOS releases. Unique Device Identifier
> Retrieval was introduced in 12.3(4)T, 12.0(27)S (S1 for the GSR) and
> 12.2(25)S.

Where I used to work, we used "snmp-server chassis-id [serial number]" as 
our UDI :-)  I wrote scripts that would do the necessary device 
information gathering via SNMP and spit the data back in a form that was 
easy to put into a spreadsheet or something.

jms