Cisco Inventory

[sherlon86]

Hi, For my internship I 'm ask to perform an inventory on a network of 150 devices including switch, routers and firewalls. This company has cisco devices and i was wondering if there is a way to gather the information withour having to login to every device.

The information I want to gather is the IOS version. running configs and if possibles age of the devices.

Is there a tool for this and what is the proper way to document a cisco inventory.

The help will be much apreciated thanks.

[Joe Clarke · Accepted solution]

This can be done with tools such as CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution which will provide chassis inventory collection and configuration management features.  More on LMS as well as a 90-day eval (for up to 110 devices) for Windows and Solaris can be found at http://www.cisco.com/go/lms.

If you want to do this with Open Source tools, take a look at something like RANCID (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/).