In our environment, we have list of Cisco, juniper, 3 com devices configured in Solarwinds where my requirement is to run the compliance report for the IOS version configured and recommend in which version we are lagging in the current environment.
It seem like you might be asking "How do I create a Compliance Report that alerts us when a node's version doesn't match what we need?" Is this correct?
It's pretty easy to do; I'll lay out a basic format for you to follow. You can choose to implement it or modify it or go with someone else's recommendations.
First, let's test it on just one brand and model of device--for simplicity and testing. Then we can build on that to create other Compliance Reports that cover more and more of your nodes.
As an example of a Compliance Report, I have one that shows me every ASA 5506 I own that is running BGP. Of 58 devices, five are running BGP. You can how easy and quick this is!
Give it a try, let us know how you like it.
Alternately, there are a nice selection of pre-built Inventory Reports in NCM that you could run. They'll show every node and the version of code the nodes are running. You can sort them by machine type or by vendor or by code version. You can export them to Excel for easy searching and reporting. And you can schedule a report to be run as often as you wish, and have NCM automatically e-mail it to you or your team or your boss. If you'd like more information on this process, send me an e-mail or an IM. I'll show you how this is done, too.
Swift packets!
Rick Schroeder
not sure i understand what you are saying. the compliance reports only look at the stored config, right? so how would putting in a cli command like "show ver" run on a text file? or maybe i am misunderstanding something
I have an organization with something like 50-75 unique models of gadgets on it. Physically making a blonde lace front wig standard for every gadget each opportunity ios redesign comes out isn't what's going on with Ncm.
I have an organization with something like 50-75 unique models of gadgets on it. Physically making a blonde lace front wig standard for every gadget each opportunity ios redesign comes out isn't what's going on with Ncm.
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