Creating a report on servers their nics and their vlans

Hello,

You are correct about ASL. You do need to use ASL. As far as the objects goes, they also look right but please keep in mind that we do not discover "NICs", we discover "Interfaces" and "MACs".

Do you have the ASL Reference guide?

Hope this helps,

Regards,

-TJ

There might be another way to do this.  Generating a report from that type of object relationship traversal is something that I recall was a feature of the Perl Dashboard. 

Regarding the traversal itself, it could be a little more complicated.  There is a direct one-way relationshipset from the VLAN to the systems that participate via the VLAN::MemberSystems.  They way it computes is the following (assuming the starting point is the VLAN):

NetworkAdapter(ComposedOf)->NeighboringSystems | RelayDevice(LayeredOver);

For the purposes of your report, you only want the first half of this - the second half refers to the L2 switching devices that are hosting the VLAN. 

I think the traversal would be something similar to go from the VLAN to the Interface on the Host via:

NetworkAdapter(ComposedOf)->Peer

Regards,

Bill

Good morning,

Quick question for you, you indicated that "EMC told me...", Did you open an SR? if so can you email me the SR#? I can try to follow up with Support and get more detail on this.

Also, what is the version of your Smarts?

Regards,

TJ

EMC Technical Support Engineer III,

Ionix Smarts / NCM

VCP, EMCSA, EMCIE

I ended up writing a perl script that walked the topology tree and reported the host->nic->switch->port->vlan.

What I am having issues with are teamed/bonded nics. For some reason the “cable” connection is not created when there are teamed/bonded nics so I am not able to report on them. Unfortunately the majority of our servers now use teaming and bonding.

EMC told me that this was due to the snmp agent not giving them the information they need to create the cable connection. I have not followed up with them however I really should follow up on this as this is now the “standard” server configuration.

SR#45320638

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Re: Creating a report on servers their nics and their vlans

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Hello,

I will reply to you privately regarding that SR.

Regards,

TJ

EMC Technical Support Engineer III,

Ionix Smarts / NCM

VCP, EMCSA, EMCIE

Hey TJ…. Have you tried to get a hold of me yet.