From: Gregg Malcolm (greggm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 14:42:31 GMT-3
Denton,
Take a look at this web site http://www.comanage.net/products/products.html
Your problem is exactly what they do.
They specialize in network discovery of elements and services. They are not
Cisco centric however as they do many different vendors NE's. As far as
SNMP not being turned on at the remote device, their product will report
back to you that you need to configure it. It can use both mib 2 and
private mibs (as well as telnet screen scrapes and other methods) . You'd
be amazed at the amount of info they can provide about the network.
How big are the enterprise customers ? Comanage really targets tier 1
carriers but they might work with you.
If you are interested in their product, please e-mail me off line.
HTH, Gregg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Denton Bobeldyk" <denny@bobeldyk.org>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:31 AM
Subject: OT: Out of Control Asset Mgmt
> I'm looking at a few Enterprise level customers that don't have an idea
> of what sort of Cisco equipment they have.
>
> They're looking for a good inventory of all of their equipment.
> Physically walking around to all of their remote sites is out of the
> question simply for cost/time.
>
> SNMP would be great but not all of their switches/ routers are
> guaranteed to support SNMP or have it turned on.
> NMap OS Detecter might not be a bad idea, if it could detect the type of
> device and IP address. I could then telnet into the device and gather
> the serial number, etc. This of course wouldn't work for any device
> that doesn't have an IP address.
>
> Anybody else have any ideas, or better yet, actually do this
> successfully for a very large enterprise organization?
>
> -Denny
>
> P.S. Building a Time Machine and going back in time to actually track
> the devices before they were rolled out is not an option ;-)
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