If you're one of those people that manages a bigish Cisco network, you might also know that tracking inventory for those Cisco devices can be very painful. Each router and switch has several different cards and ports installed, each with it's own serial number. Multiply that by, say, 50 routers and your Excel spreadsheet is getting pretty big.
Oops, now that SFP died and had to be RMAed, but you were too busy soothing an angry user that couldn't check email for 2 hours while you were troubleshooting and you forgot to update the entry on your spreadsheet so now you have the wrong serial number.
GAH!
This little (11k) bit of code will collect inventory information from your Cisco routers and present it in a simple, but effective web page. To get it working, you'll need a webserver (I use XAMPP on a virtual install of Xubuntu) running PHP that has the expect package installed.
The gory details on how to get it running are available on the project page, but feel free to contact me if you need help getting it set up on your network.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
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3 comments:
Good initiative, i will test your program.
Thank's from Brazil !
Never heard such kind of thing which you explained but, still will try.
cisco sfp
amazingly simple but terrific all the same. I am using an expensive configuration management tool that does not do what this does for free!
I would like to be able to consolidate the output and make the table line up etc. but for free, I'm no complaining!
Thanks! Jon.
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