0001857: Add the ability to detect the switch type using SNMP - PacketFence

Bug Tracking System

View Issue Details [ Jump to Notes ]

[ Issue History ] [ Print ]

Project

Category

View Status

Date Submitted

Last Update

0001857

PacketFence

web admin

public

2015-01-13 12:16

2015-03-04 11:30

Reporter

tristanrhodes

Assigned To

lmunro

Priority

normal

Severity

feature

Reproducibility

always

Status

acknowledged

Resolution

open

Platform

All

OS Version

All

Product Version

4.5.0

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0001857: Add the ability to detect the switch type using SNMP

Description

Admins want a simple way to deploy Packetfence, with the least tweaking necessary to make it work. One way to accomplish this is to auto-detect the type of switch, based on SNMP response. (I believe this is similar to how "Uplink" and "VOIP" detection works.)

Packetfence should send an snmpget of 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 to the switch. This will return the sysOID of the switch. This number can then be looked up in a table that maps sysOID to device type. (There are several open source tools like (www.nedi.ch) and Observium.org that already have this table.)

Now Packetfence knows what kind of switch it is talking to, without required the admin to specify the type.

http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.html [^]

Tags

No tags attached.

fixed in git revision

fixed in mtn revision

Attached Files

Relationships

Notes
(0003632) tristanrhodes (reporter) 2015-01-13 18:22	Here is one public table of these values: http://discovery.bmc.com/confluence/display/Configipedia/List+of+discoverable+network+devices [^]

(0003968) lmunro (administrator) 2015-03-04 11:30	Interesting point. We'll consider it in a future release.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-01-13 12:16	tristanrhodes	New Issue
2015-01-13 18:22	tristanrhodes	Note Added: 0003632
2015-03-04 11:30	lmunro	Note Added: 0003968
2015-03-04 11:30	lmunro	Assigned To	=> lmunro
2015-03-04 11:30	lmunro	Status	new => acknowledged