Net-disco 2:-The Awe Some tool.Discover your LAN,IP Address,Mac,Switch port,Server Port and every thing

For guys who like netdisco in my old post(http://bejoybkn.blogspot.in/2012/02/setting-up-netdisco-on-your-network.html) but did nt like the UI here is the version 2 with awesome UI and look.This tool is a killer with the enhanced front end and with much more capabilities

Here are couple of things this tool can get easily

a)Network Topology Map
b)Locate a Mac,IP address in a LAN
c)Locate the switch port a device/server/desktop is connected to
d)Complete inventory of your LAN with S/N,OS,IP etc

How to set this one up?

I have tested this one on ubuntu 10.4 and it has to run on 12.04 as well.But 14.0 have not tested so far

Let’s login to the ubuntu server as root since we need to install couple of packages

Install the below dependency softwares

# apt-get install libdbd-pg-perl libsnmp-perl build-essential

Create a netdisco user with home directory as /usr/local/netdisco(This can be any thing i am using this because netdisco 1 uses /usr/local/netdisco)

Create a user as netdisco

#useradd netdisco -s /bin/bash -d /usr/local/netdisco

#chown -R netdisco /usr/local/netdisco

Install postgres 8-4 server

#apt-get install postgresql-8.4

Now create a new role on postgres and create a db on it

#su – postgres

$ createuser -DRSP netdisco

Enter password for new role:                        (give password as netdisco)

Enter it again:                                                 (do)

postgres:~$ createdb -O netdisco netdisco

Now login as netdisco

#su – netdisco

$curl -L http://cpanmin.us/ | perl – –notest —local-lib ~/perl5 App::Netdisco

$mkdir ~/bin

$ln -s ~/perl5/bin/{localenv,netdisco-*} ~/bin/

$mkdir ~/environments

$cp ~/perl5/lib/perl5/auto/share/dist/App-Netdisco/environments/deployment.yml ~/environments

$chmod 600 ~/environments/deployment.yml

Edit the file (“~/environments/deployment.yml“) and change the database connection parameters to netdisco,netdisco,netdisco(username,password,database)

Update the SNMP string to match with your network gear and uncomment schedule settings as this will act as the cron for NetDisco

Now do the NetDisco deployment and start the daemon

$~/bin/netdisco-deploy                            (answer yes for all the questions and it takes a while)

$~/bin/netdisco-web start                        (starts webserver on tcp 5000 port)

$~/bin/netdisco-daemon start                 (starts the NetDisco daemon)

Access Netdisco using http://serverip:5000

 

 

How to add/discover a network device

~/bin/netdisco-do -D discover -d 1.1.1.1