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Last post 09-05-2008 9:23 AM by Eqalis. 1 replies.

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11-13-2007 12:51 PM

Flexible SNMP Report Creation Tool

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I ran into a scenario recently where I needed to know the basic VTP status info for a group of switches in a portion of our network. I could not find the VTP Domain Name, VTP Local Domain Mode, or the VTP Pruning State in any NetMRI info. Of course I could be totally wrong because I am a greenhorn. Anywho I wanted to see a snapshot of all these devices together in one report with that info. So what I did was create a CSV file via NetMRI and exported it. I created a script to extract out the device names (didn't want to use IP because we all know how that changes). For each device I did an SNMP get on the info mentioned earlier creating an onscreen report of the info. I'm just minutes away from shoving the info in a CSV file to retain the info for historical reference. The end result was I could easily take an inventory of VTP modes.So this little endeavor was just lovely and I got to stretch my TCL legs a bit but I'm basically a lazy person at heart. I like to automate the crap out of everything I do to tell ya the real truth. I think it would be a nice feature to enable a user to create a user defined report whether the info is info currently extracted by NetMRI or some other info that may need to be gathered through SNMP. My vision of the moment is to allow users to define info retrieval fields with oid/mib values. The user then chooses the hosts to query (like it does when it runs a script) and the fields of info to retrieve (ability to put the fields in an order would be nice too). NetMRI could have some seeded fields (like those in the system root oid) and then allow the user to build their own. So next question is would other customers find this flexibility useful? I can only speak for myself and I think it would be cool . . . obviously. I’d love to hear other ideas.

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09-05-2008 9:23 AM In reply to

Eqalis
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Re: Flexible SNMP Report Creation Tool

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Yes, I would love the ability to create reports where I select the source of the data from
1: the netmri stored fields
2: using a regular expression on the config
3: using a regular expression on the raw SNMP
4: the result of a CCS script, either a returned field or saved file.

Even better would be, if we could design the report layout with a cascading style sheet(CSS) or imported document.

At the moment we download all the data and munge it on a separate server using shell or perl scripts. To be able to do this flexibly on the NetMRI would greatly simplify things.

Bob Munson (Eqalis)

EQALIS
info(at)eqalis.com
www.eqalis.com

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