[Beowulf] How can i get the port number of a switch port via snmp?

[Michael Di Domenico]

I'll also echo Robert's statements about managed or unmanaged.  being
a network engineer by trade i have often written scripts in perl that
utilize linux and the net-snmp toolkit to query Cisco switches through
snmp and then setting a particuliar port as admin. up/down

i can't locate the perl offhand, but from the shell using net-snmp,
you can use the following commands to retrieve the interface status
and then snmpset the variable to change the interface into a down
state...

snmpwalk -c $COMM $IPADDR ifDesc | grep "FastEthernet"

use this to get the instance from the ifDesc (ie ifDesc.0 ~ fastethernet0/0)

snmpget -c $COMM $IPADDR ifAdminStatus.0
snmpget -c $COMM $IPADDR ifOperStatus.0

use this to check the status for the ports

snmpset -v1 -c $COMM $IPADDR ifAdminStatus.0 = 2

use this to set the port into a down state


On 9/8/05, Robert G. Brown <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Zhang Hui wrote:
> 
> > Hi,all
> >
> >       I need to disable a switch port my machine is connected to. But first I have to know the port number,haven't i?
> >       So how can i get the port number?
> >       Or, anyone gets better ideas? Thanks a lot.
> 
> Is your switch managed or unmanaged?  If unmanaged, I don't believe you
> can, at least in software -- unplug it is about all you can do (although
> you can also take down the connecting NIC).
> 
> If managed, then it probably speaks SNMP.  I'm not an expert on SNMP but
> IIRC you may need a device specific toolkit to manage it, depending on
> who makes the switch and how portable they really made the interface.
> You might look here:
> 
>   http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/tutorial-5/
> 
> for starters -- I believe this is a linux/OS snmp toolkit that may do
> all that you need to do, with examples.
> 
> Remember GIYF.
> 
>    rgb
> 
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