I was going to write the same, the time spent on this would better be spent in improving our bridge table discovery and search functionality.
On 15/08/2012 17:37, Adam Armstrong wrote:
This kind of integration is unlikely, we'd prefer to just implement it ourselves.
The rancid/smokeping things are just 15-minute hacks.
adam.
On 15/08/2012 16:34, Michael Robbert wrote:
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Michael, How does Switchmap compare to Netdisco and/or SNMPInfo (The set of libraries that Netdisco uses)? Netdisco stores its data in a database that could be queried. We use Netdisco and I might be convinced to take a look at this kind of integration. I am not a core developer for either project so I can't say anything about its acceptance in the code base. I do think that it would have to be a plug-in of some type not a core feature. Both Swiitchmap and Netdisco are mostly Perl while Observium is mostly PHP. I see them as being separate projects, but Observium could have a configuration telling it to look at another database for more info to display. As a side note I'm surprised that I've never heard of Switchmap before. We work often with the Network engineers at NCAR/UCAR that wrote it. They manage the consortium that is our connection to the internet.
Mike Robbert
On 8/14/12 9:39 PM, Cushard Michael wrote:
Hi,
Switchmap (http://sourceforge.net/projects/switchmap) is a most excellent little utility written in perl. It goes out to all your configured switches utilizing SNMP and pulls all the ARP and MAC tables from them, and builds static HTML pages for each switch with tables that list port number, speed, duplex, CDP neighbor information, MAC address(es), IP address(es), and the fqdn(s) of the device(s) seen on the ports at the time of polling. It also provides a rudimentary search function that lets you search through all the hosts to find which switch port across all your switches a particular host was last seen on. This is very handy when you have a large number of switches and ports and you need to go "hunting".
Now I may be having a UTS moment here, and if I am please correct me, but while Observium seems to have something similar, it doesn't appear to go to the depth that Switchmap does to actually tell you what host(s) are actually connected to what switch ports by utilizing the switches ARP and MAC tables.
What would make Observium - and Switchmap - even better would be if there was integration between the two, similar to the SmokePing or RANCID integration. Switchmap stores all its polled data for each switch in separate CSV files, there doesn't seem to be anything mysterious going on as far as data storage is concerned. What would it take to make a "Switchmap" tab in Observium under a device that lists this data, similar to the way RANCID has a "config" tab and SmokePing has a "Ping" tab that is integrated into Observium?
Regards,
Michael
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