Re: [Netdisco] Netdisco & ip mgmt with rancid?

[Jethro R B. <jet...@st...>]

On Tue, 24 May 2011, kevin Fletch wrote:

> I am trying to build a single server to host netdisco and rancid.  I 
> have to use ubuntu as that was the mandate from mgmt.  I have rancid 
> installed, but I haven't figured out how to get the data into the svn 
> repo or maybe it's updating it.  I also put netdisco on the server and I 
> have it running, but I can't get it to detect more than a couple devices 
> even though I know the snmp string is correct.  It seems to scan and 
> then only picks up a device and I have to do a discover of a single ip 
> or nothing comes back. Can someone point me in the right direction?  

Netdisco discovers devices by asking the one device you told it about for 
its neighbours.  It then progresses around the network asking for more 
neighbours.  For this to work, your devices need to speaking LLDP, or one 
of the supported proprietary variants like CDP, FDP, etc.  So, do you have 
LLDP/CDP enabled on your devices, and can they see each other?

If you don't/can't have a neighbour discovery protocol like that, then you 
need to use the manual topology file to list your devices and their 
interconnections.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks, Network Manager,
Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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