<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I know there are concerns about running CDP, but I guess it really depends on the situation.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> - dlb</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 19, 2013 7:21 PM, "Greg Brown" <<a href="mailto:gwbrown1@gmail.com">gwbrown1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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 <a href="http://cisco.com" target="_blank">cisco.com</a> 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Greg</div></div>
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