A popular request on the Netdisco GitHub and mailing list has been better support for the Cisco 9800 Wireless Controller family. We’ve contributed a new C9800 SNMP::Info class that combines features from Airespace and standard Cisco MIBs, finally adding access points managed by these controllers to the Netdisco inventory. Check it out in Netdisco 2.10505 […]
$ nco_sql -user netcool1> update custom.filterclauses set sqlclause = ‘EventClass = \’Tech Event\” where clauseid = 262> go(1 row affected) This detail seems to be missing from the manual and is somewhat hard to find otherwise. Other variants like doubling ” or concatenating a char(39) function will not work.
If your organization uses both Netdisco and Cisco ACI, you might be interested in one of our latest Open Source projects: nd2-worker-plugin-aci. This extension uses the APIC REST API to integrate the fabric’s switch port to MAC address and MAC address to ARP entry mappings seamlessly into the Netdisco database. Licensed under the same liberal […]
Recently one of our clients wanted to aggregate text data in PostgreSQL using Mondrian. Without going too deep into Mondrian details, this requires an aggregate function that’s called sum() and accepts a single text argument. While stock PostgreSQL fulfills the first criteria, the function is defined for many data types but not text. Creating some […]
In this article, we’ll look at various Ansible modules that can be used to fetch information from Cisco IOS devices: ios_facts, snmp_facts and ios_command. Regardless of the used module, we’ll store the output in a JSON file that can easily be used in other tools. ios_facts ios_facts is the obvious choice. It connects to the […]
