Can you think of an easy way to discover which of my 200+ Cisco devices have DHCP address pools?

I tried to search but this is a rather keyword unfriendly request.

I'm configuring IPAM v1.7.1 and thanks to the list provided by our Windows Server team I quickly added nodes in Solarwinds and using a Windows service account they provided me was able to import the DHCP scopes they had fairly easilly.

Now I'm looking at the 200+ Cisco switches and routers we have deployed and can't imagine logging into each one and typing "sh run | incl dhcp" to try and find out if they are running DHCP.

I was thinking if I had a txt file of the running-config from each device I could use something like the built-in Search function in Windows to search in those text files for "dhcp" and based on matches I'd add those as DHCP servers in IPAM.

I looked at the Configs/Configuration Management feature of Solarwinds but that seems to download configs and keep them in Solarwinds and not as a text file I can access and searh like I thought above.

So my question is, assuming you've followed this all, is how can find out what Cisco devices on my many, many subnets run a DHCP server?

Your help is appreciated in advance.

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tonyled

when you do a show run you can pipe it to include a search string

ex: sho run | include dhcp

candycorn

Thanks, but I knew that. If you noticed in my post I mention not wanting to do that 200 times. Any automated ways for this?

tonyled

sorry, i assumed you had ncm which looking back you never did say.

tonyled

to further clarify. ncm saves the configs as txt files. however, when you run a script against ncm devices it gives you a single report. i ran a script against 4 of my devices to show you what the output would look like

BRANCH-xxxx1_3750 (0.0.0.0)
show run | include dhcp
BRANCH-xxxx2_3750 (1.1.1.1)
show run | include dhcp
BRANCH-xxxx3_3750 (2.2.2.2)
show run | include dhcp

ip dhcp pool users
BRANCH-xxxx4_3750 (3.3.3.3)
show run | include

i dont run dhcp servers on my devices however i modified one (branch 3) to show you what i think you would see if you did

i hope this helps