[c-nsp] OT: network inventory

[Oliver Gorwits]

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Hi Chip,

chip wrote:
| 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.


We use Netdisco for network discovery (both for switches/routers,
and connected end stations). It's written with Perl+Net-SNMP, has a
web front-end, and uses PostgreSQL storage:

~   http://netdisco.org/

(The version in CVS is -much- improved, and will be released RSN)

As for device inventory, the latest Netdisco code does all the
ENTITY-MIB work, and I've been working on graphically representing
that in the web UI:

http://sites.google.com/a/gapps.oxuni.org.uk/oliver/netdisco-frontpanels

Screenshot from above:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~oliver/data/images/frontpanel/frontpanel_demo_c3750_stack.png

Next step is to generate SVG as an alternative to the vendor images.


I hope that helps, and provides ideas for your own scripts,

regards,
oliver.
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Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group,
Oxford University Computing Services
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