Hello Chris,
thanks for your feedback;
in the meantime, I had downloaded and tested the netdisco demo VMware appliance and got some problems ;
I posted the following mail on the netdisco mailing list but did not get any feedback yet;
if you have any ideas, thanks in advance
Joel
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newbie in netdisco,
just downloaded and tested netdisco demo VMWare package (V1.0 netdisco version ... a bit too old maybe, even for a test)

To run a quick test,
1) I just edited community values and uncomment "discover_only  =" statement followed by a comma-separated list of IP routers to be discovered in /usr/local/netdisco/netdisco.
conf ;
I let "#discover_no =" statement untouched ;

2) then, I restart netdisco via : ./netdisco -p restart ==> OK
after a few minutes, I still did not see any IP routers added on the discover_only list shown via web interface;
nothing shown in /usr/local/netdisco/data/logs apart from messages related to "netdisco starting"

3) so, I tested the 2 manual commands below via SSH :
./netdisco -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  (for 1 single IP)
./netdisco -r  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,yyy.yyy.yyy.
yyy, zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz, ....   for my list of IPs routers

Both commands work successfully and results are OK via web interface

Questions :
a) what else should I do to avoid having to issue the manual commands and let netdisco do its job ?
b) with recent netdisco versions, is there a function that allows to export resulting infos (such as the Devices List with their discovered ard/soft infos) as a CSV file for example  ?

thanks for any help
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