[Trilug-ontopic] A Cisco question, but not a how-to IOS question

[dave bartlett]

I don't know if there is anything available to customers.  Years ago, there
was a project that Cisco would take a box to the customers network and it
would gather everything.  Stats, code levels, machines,  everything.  Then
Cisco would analyze it, and be able to improve the network.  I know Cisco
is doing something similar right now, but I don't remember the name.  I
know some years ago, a tool was created to run on a network and see if
there were problems with IPv6.  I have no longer idea what that project was
named.

There are plenty of things out there to probe your network, and if you have
CDP running in the Cisco devices... use a little Perl here and there, and
you may get what you want.

I know there are concerns about running CDP, but I guess it really depends
on the situation.

- dlb
On Oct 19, 2013 7:21 PM, "Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My question is this: does anyone know of a database that can be downloaded
> or any kind of API on Cisco's site that will allow a script to lookup if a
> device has reached end-of-life based on either model type or serial number?
>  We are talking about many thousands of individual devices and possibly
> hundreds of type types so looking them up one at a time is simply not
> practical.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas are welcome.  The only way I can think to do it
> would be a try to reach the model page on cisco.com and search for
> keywords like "end of life".  That might be the only way to accomplish this
> but I am hoping to find a more elegant solution.
>
> Greg
>
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