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1. Re: Changing a device's IP (Oliver Gorwits)
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Hi Brian,
thanks, I will give the config a test and let you know what to tweak
The IRC channel is alive, but often 24 hour turnaround on responses as
people are at work in different timezones :)
Also if you let me know what config caused the deep recursion, I would be
interested, but not essential.
regards
Oliver.
On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 at 17:16, Brian Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for writing back Oliver!
>
> I’m not that versed in YAML but trying. Following your lead, the website
> docs, and a lot of trial and error (including Deep recursion on
> subroutine "App::Netdisco::Util::Permission::check_acl"), I _think_ I
> have something that should work, but it doesn’t seem to.
>
> In a nutshell, I’m looking for something to match Cisco ASA devices if
> they have an IP in the 172.31.0.0/16 space on their management interface
> and if so use the management IP for the device’s ID.
>
> I posted in the IRC (
> https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/netdisco), but I’m
> probably being impatient waiting for an answer or posted it in the wrong
> area (haven’t used IRC in years), so apologies in advance.
>
> Thank you again for a great product and looking forward to maybe even
> making minor contributions in the future if I can!
>
> BK
>
> —
>
> *host_groups:*
> * cisco_asa:*
> * - 'op:and'*
> * - 'vendor:cisco'*
> * - 'model:.*(?i:ASA).*'*
> * device_with_management_ip:*
> * - 'op:and'*
> * - 'port:(?i)management'*
> * - 172.31.0.0/16 <http://172.31.0.0/16>*
> * asa_with_management_ip:*
> * - 'op:and'*
> * - 'group:cisco_asa'*
> * - 'group:device_with_management_ip'*
>
> *device_identity:*
> * 'group:asa_with_management_ip':*
> * - 'port:(?i)management'*
>
> —
>
> On Feb 9, 2023, at 5:09 AM, Oliver Gorwits <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Brian
>
> The renumber feature is not what you want to use. That is for when you
> actually change the IP of a device and remove the old one; it allows the
> user to keep all the history of connected nodes and so on in the database.
>
> The feature you want is device_identity in the configuration file:
> https://github.com/netdisco/netdisco/wiki/Configuration#device_identity
>
> At a guess, the config might look something like (check the Model field of
> your Device Details tab and the Port Name in Addresses tab):
>
> device_identity:
> 'model:asa': 'port:(?i)mgmt1'
>
> Hope that helps, and if you get stuck do come and ask on IRC.
>
> Thanks for using Netdisco :)
>
> regards,
> oliver.
>
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 at 09:59, Brian Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello all! Longtime user, first time poster. :-) I tried searching the
>> archives for the mailing list, but I wasn’t about to find anything on this
>> topic from more recent that around 2007.
>>
>> I have a question about how Netdisco selects an IP to identify a device.
>> I have a Cisco ASA used as a VPN that is being identified by the IP address
>> of the outside interface, my guess is because it has the lowest IP address
>> on the system.
>>
>> If I use "netdisco-do renumber -d <old outside interface IP> -e <new
>> management interface IP>“ then Netdisco seems to use the IP I want it
>> to, but at some point later it reverts back to using the outside interface
>> again.
>>
>> Is this expected behavior? Or, as I’m probably doing something wrong,
>> what would be the correct procedure?
>>
>> Thank you everyone and keep up the good work!
>>
>> BK
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