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

[Mussie Gebregziabiher]

Thomas -
There has not been any active development on RANCID from what i can 
tell.  Here is the official website  
(http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/).  My thoughts are if you are 
desperate, you should be able to hack your way thru the script. Add 
"show inventory" to your list of commands  and use the existing 
subroutines as a template, for example there is one for "show  version" 
that parses the output.

-MGG

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.
>
>I was wondering if someone had already written a patch for Rancid to 
>CVS/diff this extra information that can be displayed on the CLI via 
>"show inventory". I've tested it on 7206VXRs NPE-G1s and NPE-300s 
>running 12.2(25)S, Cat4500s running 12.2(25)EWA & Cat6500 running 
>12.2(17d)SXB1. Depending on the hardware platform it has more or less 
>information (fans, power supplies, backplanes, etc..).
>
>If anyone is using this already for SNMP inventory management and/or via 
>Rancid (with the appropriate patch) I'm interested in their feedback 
>(accurate data, serial number tracking, "ghost" serial numbers, etc...)
>
>Thomas 
>
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