These things can be done all at SNMP-Manager.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Sathyanarayana Murthy, Harish Kolar <
[email protected]> wrote:
> So, there is no way we can get router's IP address table using net-snmp?
>
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> From: Peter Hicks [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:05 PM
> To: Sathyanarayana Murthy, Harish Kolar
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> Subject: Re: FW: net-snmp for network discovery
>
> Sathyanarayana Murthy, Harish Kolar wrote:
>
> > I learnt that there is a optimized approach for discovering nodes in a
> > network using SNMP. Getting the node details from the router or
> > something like that, instead of incrementing each IP and getting its
> status.
> >
> > Could anybody share some thoughts on this?
>
> This is where you poll a 'seed' router (normally a default gateway), look
> at the ifTable, atTable and ipAddrTable, then poll each host in turn.
>
> This won't pick up hosts that aren't actively communicating, but is a quick
> way to build up information on a network without scanning every possible IP
> address.
>
> Net-SNMP won't discover your network, but you can use the perl library for
> example to write code to do this.
>
>
> Peter
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