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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <
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Subject: A set of Perl scripts to record addresses on a LAN with SNMP
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Date: 26 Jun 1993 16:21:59 +0200
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Hello,
I've just finished a set of Perl scripts which enables the network admini-
strator to keep tracks of the machines which are active on the LAN. These
scripts are available on ftp.cnam.fr:pub/CNAM/MISC/record_arp.tar.Z. Here
is the README:
---------------------- beginning of README --------------------
Record addresses in a LAN from SNMP agents
This set of Perl scripts allow you to record addresses of machines
which "speak" on your LAN.
It does so by dumping ARP tables of SNMP agents. ARP tables are tables of
mapping between a MAC (Medium Access Control, hardware) addrress, such as an
Ethernet address and a network (high-level) address, at the present time,
only an IP address.
To use it, you need:
- Perl, a nice programming language for system and network
administrators. Perl is available on uunet.uu.net:gnu/perl-xxx.tar.Z, on
tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:perl/xx and on jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov:pub/perlxxx.
It is described in "Programming Perl" by Wall and Schwartz (O'Reilly).
- at least one SNMP agent on a frequented machine (I mean a machine
which speaks with many others, such as a central router). This
agent has to be in MIB-II (RFC 1213). Today, almost all network devices
(hubs, routers, bridges, etc) are sold with a built-in SNMP agent. It can
also run on a general-purpose computer too. SNMP is described in "The simple
book" by Rose (Prentice-Hall).
- a software package which allows you to direct SNMP requests from
the command line. My scripts are tailored for Tricklet, but it
shoudln't be too hard to modify them for, say, CMU's SNMP.
To get Tricklet, a great package to do network management with SNMP, ftp to
dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl:/pub/Tricklet. There are many other interesting network
things on this machine, all made by the Data Network Performance Analysis
Project at Delft University of Technology. Many thanks to them.
For CMU, try lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/cmu-snmpxxx.tar.
You have the following scripts:
- arp.pl dumps the ARP table from a distant machine. Useful to test if this
machine has a correct SNMP agent.
- record_mac_addresses.pl is the most important script: it gathers information
from your agents. Edit the line beginning with "@agents=" to write your own
agents. Choose a name for your database and edit "$DBM_file_name =" and
"$log_file_name =" accordingly. Then, run this script from crontab every
three or four hours.
- print_mac_addresses.pl dumps the whole database. I like the following C
shell alias "alias macaddr 'perl /path/print_mac_addresses.pl | grep -i \!$'"
which allows me to find a machine by its name, IP address or MAC address.
- remove_mac_address.pl to suppress an entry (by its IP address).
Of course, this package is without any warranty and I don't
speak for my employer...
(But if you have bug reports, I'd like to see them.)
-------------------- end of README ---------------------
Well, it was just to show that network management was useful in practice
:-) and that fancy interfaces aren't the only way to do it (cron is good
too).
Stephane Bortzmeyer Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
[email protected] Laboratoire d'Informatique
292, rue Saint-Martin
tel: +33 (1) 40 27 27 31 75141 Paris Cedex 03
fax: +33 (1) 40 27 27 72 France
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