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

[john heasley]

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:41:26PM -0500, 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.

We're active, just lacking copious amounts of time lately.

What does show inventory provide that the other commands which rancid
uses do not?  AFAICT, it is a sub-set.

> -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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