My Network Analyst Team is frequently tasked with reviewing and verifying Cisco Switchport configurations for devices that may be incompatible with certain Cisco commands or options.
I can use UDT to quickly find the switch and switchport to which a device is connected, but UDT does not give me all of the information I'd love to see, to make this process more efficient.
Today, once UDT finds a device, I have to click on the switch to discover its Management IP address, then SSH to that address, and then run a "show run interface x/x" command to see if that port's configuration has a specific line of concern in it.
A better modification to UDT would be:
- Immediately show the management IP address of the switch hosting the device on a port, without even hovering on it (although hovering over the switch could be a secondary, less-effective-but-still-desirable option)
- Provide an "in-UDT-SSH" hotlink that would allow SSH to that switch by a single link clicked
- Tie NCM's last configuration output for that switch's switchport into UDT so we don't even need to SSH to the switch to see its current running configuration on the switchport in question. THAT kind of integration is definitely going down the best full-featured path!
Hoping to see this in future releases (I'm running NPM 12.2 and UDT 3.3.0 at present),
Rick Schroeder