[c-nsp] OT: network inventory

[Lamar Owen]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 08:13:28 nasir.shaikh at bt.com wrote:
> Anybody familiar with (freeware/shareware) tools for a network
> inventory? Install-base is 100% cisco.

> Are there other utilities around that would scan the collected
> configurations and read relevant info (descriptions, ip add, link
> bandwidth etc)?

I use OpenNMS, which is a full bore network management system.  Has great 
autodiscovery, and reads what it needs to know via SNMP.  Can do layer 2 link 
detections and paths.

Doesn't pull in configs; rancid does that quite well.
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