HI
one of my client wants switch port mapper features in NPM.
Is this possible ?
Not exactly...
You could set up UnDP's to collect such info as interface speed, duplex, and alias, then have it diplayed on the node details page, but I believe you would be hard-pressed to come up with a way to collect and present such things as mac & IP addr's on each port, and display it in a single view. I suppose you could have the associated mac and IP tables displayed n the interface details views, but you wouldn't have the associated name resolution.
There has been talk on the forums about including this functionality natively within Orion (along with other Toolset functions) , but my guess is that it would be on the "long list" instead of the "short" one.
I think it's more likely to be included in NCM rather than NPM.
Dave.
Way old post, but its similar to an issue I have - I want to be able to add the Switch Port Mapper to the Button Bar thing in the top right of the node details views.. I saw a few old posts about adding SSH to this button bar, but not much else.
dclick,
I created some custom scripting that runs Engineers Toolset switchport mapper on a schedule. The mapper outputs in an XML file which is then interpreted by and XLS on a webpage. The page is then linked through a custom Resource based on IP address through Orion.
The script pulls the IP address and ARP router address (custom property) from the orion database based on if its Device Type (custom property).
For us this runs twice per day and every switch on the network has a link to its map via a webpage.
The webpage is printed in a nice table and shows all of the data an Engineers Toolset Switchport Map woudl show.
See screenshot attached.
JasonKV,
Can you provide your custom scripts etc??
This looks like a great interim until NPM can do this natively
Also marked this for the PM.
M
It may take me a while to clean it up so that its commented well and that its "washed" of any sensitive data. I will go on record that I will not support this script however if I have time I may answer questions about it. It goes without saying that it will come with no warranties of any kind and it will be used at your own discretion.
With all of that out of the way....I will see what I can do here in the next few days.
Thanks
Enjoy. Hopefully it makes sense. I make no claim to be a program developer.
Thanks Jason
btw, why do you need a separate webserver for this? can you not use the orion webserver for this?
I guess you don't need a separate web server. I would not include this in the directories within the Orion site though. If you were to ever do a config wizard it will rebuild your website deleting the files that are there. In addition if you do a backup and restore of the website it will include the old files. Sure you can use the same instance of IIS just create a new folder just for the Maps.
The limitations and "needs" were for guidance purposes only. You are free to do WHATEVER you want with the code that makes it work for your implementation.
Good Coding. ...
