[c-nsp] OT: network inventory

[Giany]

I see a lot of people ask about this. Here it is my 2 cents:

I have set this using rancid and some perl scripts. If you manage to install rancid then the perl script should contain:

1. variables with : rancid config files , router.db, snmp community
2. vars with port type for cisco/cat/juniper smth like ( %switchports = ("WS-X5225R","24|100baseTX",....)
3. get the list of devices you have :
 smth like : my @devcisco = `cat router.db | grep -i ":up:" | grep -i "cisco" | cut -f1 -d":"`;
  the same for the rest of devices
4. then for the list of devices you have get the infos you need (slot , port, ip..)



--- On Tue, 8/19/08, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
From: Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu>
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] OT: network inventory
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 7:24 AM

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 09:56:42 chip wrote:
> So far all of the software that's been presented will autodiscover
devices
> and backup configs and such.  Is there anything around that will actually
> take inventory of a router.  By inventory I mean, list of cards, model
> numbers, serial numbers, pluggable optics, etc. 

So you want to issue a 'show inventory raw' command and capture the
results, 
essentially, right?

Seems rancid could do this, as it can produce arbitrary scripts and diff the 
results; perhaps a rancid expert here (which I'm not) can further comment.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Chief Information Officer
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
http://www.pari.edu
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