It's not quite that simple to automate unfortunately.
The base Bridge MIB tables only take you as far as necessary in flat (single VLAN) environments...
Vendor support for the various VLAN Bridge extensions could best be described as 'interesting' so iterating the forwarding tables against VLANs can get messy.
And that's before any code constraints within InterMapper! ;-p
There are good Perl scripts around to do the dog work for you but some customisation seems to be necessary most of the time.
The other useful thing is to check the values returned by <Port List> <Port Number> <Port Name> <Interface Alias> <Interface Name>
Depending on the vendor (and diligence of people configuring the switch) you may get everything you need, albeit manually.
fwiw,
Charlie.
On 22/06/2004, at 01:00, JB NEWS wrote:
Thanks a lot,
waiting for the release containing this stuff.
Just another question. A long time ago (3.x) there was a discussion about enhancements for intermapper.
There we talked about "Layer 2 discovery" of intermapper.
It would be nice if intermapper could connect a server added to a map
automatically to the corresponding switch port.
All the information needed for this trick is hold in some snmp tables.
It would be even nicer when intermapper "reconnects" a server to the right
switchport if a server will be connected to another switchport (patchcable
pulled and replugged).
Greetings from Germany
J. Br�ndle
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