[c-nsp] OT: network inventory

[Laurent Geyer]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:56 AM, chip <chip.gwyn at gmail.com> 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.  I've been working on
> scripts to do this and it's become alot more complicated than I had
> originally planned.  If there's already some software out there that does
> this, I'd love to get my hands on it.


Checkout Ziptie. It's still a work in progress and things tend to change
around a bit, but the core framework is there and looks very promising.

The hardware inventory may not go as far as giving you details on the
pluggable optics, but it covers the linecard inventory pretty well as of
right now, and the dev team encourages feedback/feature requests.

http://www.ziptie.org/files/images/Screenshot-ZipTie%20-%20Hardware%20Model%20-%20ZipTie%20.preview.png

I'm still in the 'playing around' stage with it, but I'm giving serious
consideration to putting it into production.

Cheers,

Laurent