Re: [Netdisco] Is it possible to discover a device that doesn't return sysServices

[Jeroen v. I. <j.v...@ut...>]

Hi Chris,

> I'm curious if there is perhaps a way to work around an issue I've
> stumbled upon.  We have some hosts deployed (Silver Peak WAN
> Accelerators) that I am unable to discover in NetDisco.
>
> I kick off a discovery of the devices but hit the following.
> ==========
> n e t  d i s c o
> --------------------------------------------------
> [10.15.24.16] Discover starting
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./netdisco
> line 1396.
> [10.15.24.16]  Device Talks SNMP but only has layers . Skipping
> ! Device Not Supported or I can't connect to it via SNMP.
> ==========
>
> I dug around a bit and tested via snmpwalk, and discovered that
> SilverPeak hosts don't return any value for SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices,
> which is why this error message gets thrown.

Since SNMP::Info 2.04 there's some support for devices that don't 
implement sysServices. Which version of SNMP::Info are you using?

If it's 2.04 or newer, could you try a discover with debugging (-D 
parameter) on and post the output?


Regards,

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