Hello all, I am looking for a way to dump the output of the following command to a SQL database, or at least a text file,
show mac-address-table dynamic
My ultimate goal is to then take this data and incorporate it with our inventory system to help keep track of computers and multiple vlans that seem to be changing daily. Unfortunatly my skills with a Cisco switch are not that up to snuff. Any help as to the best way to do this or if it can be done would be a HUGE help, thanks in advance.
Oh, I should mention this is on a catalyst 6513.
You may want to investigate how Netdisco does it... it's open source.
You could use something like 'Expect' to automate a login, run the command and output to a text file ... ...
BernieM
I might add .. we ran the unix version under Linux and had it poll the switch every 5 seconds. We had it write the results to a new file each time but coupled with different 'grep' statements etc. we could be very specific with what we pulled from the output ie. only report on those processes > than 'x' % utilisation etc.
BernieM
Correction to last post .... we had it poll every 30 sec.
BernieM
You should look at my recent post about NeDi, which will help you keep track of where all your users are connected on your network. NeDi is amazingly useful, we cannot imagine going back to doing this the old-fashioned way.
NeDi
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