Re: [Netdisco] Locate a machine on the network by MAC or IPand show the switch port it lives at

[Ingen S. J. v. (ICTS) <j.v...@ut...>]

Hi Ken,

> I have gotten my Netdisco running pretty good now and it can do most
> everything I need it to do but my cron jobs don’t seem to running as
> my port information didn’t update when I physically moved a user. This
> was done yesterday so it should be updated by now.
> 
>  
> 
> I am logged in as root but when I do enter the command you suggest
> “crontab netdisco.crontab” is comes back : No such file or directory. 

You'll probably want to run that command as the "netdisco" user, not as
root. The argument to the "crontab" command is a file; the file
"netdisco.crontab" should be present in /usr/local/netdisco or wherever
you installed Netdisco.

So if you are the "netdisco" user, go to the location where the file
"netdisco.crontab" is and then execute "crontab netdisco.crontab".

By the way, you might want to edit the file first, mainly to enter the
ip address or host name of a device at the root of your network (for
automatic discovery of new devices).


Regards,

Jeroen van Ingen
ICT Service Centre
University of Twente, P.O.Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands