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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi Oliver<BR>
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I've gone some way towards building the router schema based on ENTITY-MIB and others (quite labour intensive :-)). Netdisco seems to overlap a lot of what I've done, and offer a number of better features, so it might be worth looking at integrating it into the CMDB system I'm trying to build, as opposed to the custom stuff I've scripted.<BR>
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Many Thanks!<BR>
Traiano<BR>
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From: rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net on behalf of Oliver Gorwits<BR>
Sent: Fri 9/19/2008 3:46 PM<BR>
To: rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<BR>
Subject: [rancid] Re: RANCID as an Element of a CMDB System<BR>
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Hi Traiano,<BR>
<BR>
Traiano Welcome wrote:<BR>
| what I want is a pre-canned sql schema for each<BR>
| model router config (or a single generic one!) which would allow me<BR>
| to easily import a router config into a database.<BR>
<BR>
If you were using SNMP, you could poll the ENTITY-MIB on the network<BR>
devices. This would reveal their hardware configuration, and it uses a<BR>
standardized language as described in section 3 of RFC 2737.<BR>
<BR>
Some systems such as Netdisco will do this, and insert it into an SQL<BR>
database. The database schema is quite simple; the RFC uses a strict<BR>
hierachical model for the physical entities.<BR>
<BR>
You could look at the Netdisco or SNMP::Info code for some ideas,<BR>
perhaps, and translate them for your RANCID-based system.<BR>
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regards,<BR>
oliver.<BR>
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Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group,<BR>
Oxford University Computing Services<BR>
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