Inventory Data - Include VLAN Information?

Hello,

I was curious to see what others think of this... I did some searching and it seems like it has been talked about before but not in much detail.

What does everyone think about including VLAN information as part of the inventory process? It would be nice to be able to run a report to see what swtiches have what vlans configured and to be able to tell what ports belonged to what VLANS. We're in the process of planning to break up our network a little more using some extra vlans and if we had a way to easily check our devices, I think it could be very helpful.

I've read some information about VTP but from what I can see, it really isn't a good thing to use.

Thoughts/Ideas/Comments?

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FormerMember

The VLAN information available in NCM isnt very useful.

DGoodale

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.

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jonchill

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.

dclick

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.

chris.lapoint

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?

dclick

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..

sean.martinez

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.

SELECT IPAddress, HostName, MACAddress, ConnectedTo, PortNumber, PortName, VLAN, NodeStatus, NodeID, PortID, ConnectionType, FirstSeen, ConnectionTypeName FROM UDT_AllEndPoints