The VLAN information available in NCM isnt very useful.
Actually, they do pull the vlan info. One selection in the inventory details drop down menu is VLANs. Now if they would just put all that wonderful info in a report.
Its something I've been trying to get hold of for a while, we've just broken up our network into a dozen of so VLAN's most restricted to an area but 2 or 3 are site wide and it would be good to be able to dynamically look at what vlan were associated with what ports there is a report as part of the inventory on the NCM portal but it would be nice to be able to be asked for a specific switch to query and more importantly have the data available in NPM.
I just installed a demo of the NCM specifically to see that function. For me, its not pulling anything up. Am I doing something wrong? I have ran the report against Cisco 6513's and 3560's with no results.
Can you try running the switch port mapping report? Then, go to Modify Report and select the VLAN ID as a field to include in the report to see if this gives the results you're looking for?
The switch port mapper is a single device tool.
i have a small network of 100+ switches.
A vlan tool would help me out allot.
I've been trying to develop a custom report within NCM for more detailed VLAN info as well. In order to harvest any VLAN information from inventory, you need to enable the "Bridge Table - Layer 2 Forwarding Tables" within Inventory Settings.
Inventory will then display any ports that are configured as access VLAN X. It doesn't display VLANs that are being trunked. I'm going to keep messing with these reports and see what I can come up with. I've asked in the Feature Request thread for expanded NCM reporting so hopefully that will be in an upcoming release.
Has anyone found a way to run a report in Cirrus (NCM) how by Switch port what vlan(s) it is on? I have been requested to find out on all 500+ switches what Vlans the port is on. I see that the switchport mapper can do this but at one switch at a time.
I believe the VLAN database information will be useful. I have had it where my VLAN database took a dump for no reason before. Grant it wouldn't that be that hard to reinput the information back in but it would be nice feature to have to be even more lazy.
Yes, I am going to resurrect an old topic.
I find myself needing to run reports based on VLAN info, and have still not found a good way to do this. If anyone has any tips, please let me know.
I have Orion NPM, NTA, NCM and UDT - surley between all those tools, there is a way for me to find out what switch has what port configured for vlan XXX..
Don,
Using UDT, you will be able to see all of the information that you would like to see. We do not have the view available in Report Writer by default, but this SQL Query has all of the information available together.
