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nasir.shaikh at bt

Aug 19, 2008, 5:13 AM

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OT: network inventory

Hi,

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)?

Nasir Shaikh

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rskjels at pogostick

Aug 19, 2008, 5:15 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

http://www.ziptie.org/

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, nasir.shaikh[at]bt.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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)?
>
>
>
>
>
> Nasir Shaikh
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Aug 19, 2008, 5:16 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

I think solar winds may help you.

Regards,
Jack

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Subject: [c-nsp] OT: network inventory

> Hi,
>
> 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)?
>
>
>
>
>
> Nasir Shaikh
>
>
>
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mathias.spoerr at at

Aug 19, 2008, 5:23 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

I made a small tool called wktools and its Freeware:
www.spoerr.org/wktools

It can do an inventory of your Cisco devices, including IOS routers,
IOS&CatOS switches, PIX, ASA, FWSM and IP Phones

Mathias

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[c-nsp] OT: network inventory

Hi,

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)?

Nasir Shaikh

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Aug 19, 2008, 5:29 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:13:28PM +0100, nasir.shaikh[at]bt.com wrote:
> Anybody familiar with (freeware/shareware) tools for a network
> inventory? Install-base is 100% cisco.

Sounds like you want rancid:

http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/

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lowen at pari

Aug 19, 2008, 5:42 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

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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maillist at webjogger

Aug 19, 2008, 6:04 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

Besides documenting config changes, can rancid perform a tftp backup of
router / switch startup configs, or integrate with some other software to
pull down the config file if a change is detected?

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Subject: Re: [c-nsp] OT: network inventory

> 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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> 1 PARI Drive
> Rosman, NC 28772
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lowen at pari

Aug 19, 2008, 6:26 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 09:04:29 Adam Greene wrote:
> Besides documenting config changes, can rancid perform a tftp backup of
> router / switch startup configs, or integrate with some other software to
> pull down the config file if a change is detected?

See
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch1_:_Network_Backups_With_Rancid
and see if that meets your needs.
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jlewis at lewis

Aug 19, 2008, 6:32 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Adam Greene wrote:

> Besides documenting config changes, can rancid perform a tftp backup of
> router / switch startup configs, or integrate with some other software to
> pull down the config file if a change is detected?

It doesn't use tftp for it, but rancid does backup your configs and put
them into CVS so you can see when a change was made, compare configs from
different times, etc. It also stores the latest versions of the configs
as flat files, so you can easily do some scripting to do things like find
all routers of a certain type, make a list of router names and the
software versions they're running, etc.

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jzp-cnsp at rsuc

Aug 19, 2008, 6:35 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 09:04:29AM -0400, Adam Greene wrote:
> Besides documenting config changes, can rancid perform a tftp backup of
> router / switch startup configs, or integrate with some other software to
> pull down the config file if a change is detected?

Lots of folks trigger rancid runs on snmp traps or syslog events.
Best IMO is to front-end your changes thru rancid & have that
wrapper log/trigger runs/etc to your heart's content. Only the
long list of 'round tuits' is to recreate all the good ol rtrmon
suite actions as rancid wrappers.

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chip.gwyn at gmail

Aug 19, 2008, 6:56 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

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.

--chip

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MLouis at nwnit

Aug 19, 2008, 7:02 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

You can use a tool from the cisco partner site called Cisco Network Discovery Tool. It will categorize every modules in IOS/CatOS devices and output them to excel spreadsheets. It lists all EOL hardware and Software as well as serial numbers and such per device and module. Its great for smartnet renewals and tracking. You have to be a partner to use it though but it works well. I use it all the time. It also lists what IOS have PSIRT etc and provides links to the cisco PSIRT site.

Mike

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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.

--chip

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ian.mackinnon at lumison

Aug 19, 2008, 7:03 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

hi Chip,
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. 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.
>
> --chip
>
CiscoWorks does all that magic inventory stuff.
Costs though :-(

You can then do all sorts of queries, eg tell me all the routers running
12.x with a WICxxxx because there is a vulnerability.

On recent IOS's "show inventory" does what you want, but it is not
supported everywhere.

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gordon at suncircle

Aug 19, 2008, 7:13 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

I've had pretty good luck with nedi so far:

http://www.nedi.ch/

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:56:42 -0400
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.
>
> --chip
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lowen at pari

Aug 19, 2008, 7:24 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

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.
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chip.gwyn at gmail

Aug 19, 2008, 7:38 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen[at]pari.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> --
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> Chief Information Officer
> Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
> 1 PARI Drive
> Rosman, NC 28772
> http://www.pari.edu
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>

'show inventory raw'

How have I missed this command for so long? That's perfect!

Thanks sir!

Now to parse, put into xml, and track the changes. Lots easier than dealing
with snmp, different platforms, different os versions.

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Aug 19, 2008, 7:41 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

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..)

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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.
--
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Chief Information Officer
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1 PARI Drive
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mathias.spoerr at at

Aug 19, 2008, 8:45 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

> 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.
>

wktools will also do this - it first collects all of the needed
information with SSH/Telnet and then parses it. You will get the S/Ns of
the chassis and all modules, power supplies... "show inventory raw" is not
available on all platforms and versions...

Mathias

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

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
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nitzan.tzelniker at gmail

Aug 19, 2008, 2:04 PM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

You can also use CISCO-ENTITY-ASSET-MIB and get the output of show inventory
via SNMP for example

snmptable -M /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ -m ALL -c public -v2c 1.1.1.1ceAssetTable

The problem is that cisco didn't implement this on all platforms (GSR ) and
on some (6500) it looks like they have a bug that dont return all the
information.

Nitzan

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 18:45, Mathias Spoerr <mathias.spoerr[at]at.ibm.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.
> >
>
> wktools will also do this - it first collects all of the needed
> information with SSH/Telnet and then parses it. You will get the S/Ns of
> the chassis and all modules, power supplies... "show inventory raw" is not
> available on all platforms and versions...
>
> Mathias
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Aug 19, 2008, 5:10 PM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

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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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Oxford University Computing Services
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stig.johansen at ementor

Aug 19, 2008, 6:02 PM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

Check out NAV (Network Administration Visualized) at http://metanav.uninett.no/ as well. It gives full inventory of all devices as well as a load of other useful features..

Best regards,
Stig Meireles Johansen

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Emne: Re: [c-nsp] OT: network inventory

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.

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lowen at pari

Aug 20, 2008, 6:04 AM

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On Tuesday 19 August 2008 17:04:50 Nitzan Tzelniker wrote:
> You can also use CISCO-ENTITY-ASSET-MIB and get the output of show
> inventory via SNMP for example

> The problem is that cisco didn't implement this on all platforms (GSR ) and
> on some (6500) it looks like they have a bug that dont return all the
> information.

How I found the raw option to show inventory was because on our 7401ASR's a
straight show inventory doesn't get the PA in the slot; but show inventory
raw does.

What's odd is that our 12012 here does support the exec mode sh inv raw
command just fine; haven't tried the SNMP version. Don't have a 6500 to try
with. Of course, CatOS has show module; but the RSM doesn't have show
inventory.
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maillist at webjogger

Aug 20, 2008, 6:18 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

OK, great thanks. I think we will give rancid a whirl. I assume that I'll be
able to tftp whatever config file rancid creates back into a new device
should we experience a hardware failure.

Thanks again
Adam

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Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] OT: network inventory

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Adam Greene wrote:
>
>> Besides documenting config changes, can rancid perform a tftp backup of
>> router / switch startup configs, or integrate with some other software to
>> pull down the config file if a change is detected?
>
> It doesn't use tftp for it, but rancid does backup your configs and put
> them into CVS so you can see when a change was made, compare configs from
> different times, etc. It also stores the latest versions of the configs
> as flat files, so you can easily do some scripting to do things like find
> all routers of a certain type, make a list of router names and the
> software versions they're running, etc.
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dale.shaw+cisco-nsp at gmail

Aug 20, 2008, 6:57 AM

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Re: OT: network inventory [In reply to]

Hi,

On 8/20/08, Adam Greene <maillist[at]webjogger.net> wrote:
> OK, great thanks. I think we will give rancid a whirl. I assume that I'll be
> able to tftp whatever config file rancid creates back into a new device
> should we experience a hardware failure.

Yep, just make sure you turn off the feature that masks out passwords
and SNMP community strings, or re-enter them before TFTP'ing.

RANCID throws a whole bunch of other inventory info in with the
config, but IIRC it's all commented out with !'s, so the device will
ignore it.

cheers,
Dale
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