[Fusioninventory-user] Network port discovery and their mapping to Computers

[David DURIEUX]

Le Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:27:46 +1030
mailinglist at modernbiztonsag.org a écrit:

>Hi,

Hi,

>I am having trouble getting the discovered network ports automatically 
>connected to the appropriate Computers they are related to.
>
>Here is the scenario. I have a small office network with 5 managed 
>switches (Dell PowerConnect 5548 and Networking N2048, Cisco  SG200).
>I _think_ I have properly conifgured LLDP on the uplink ports
>advertising System Name an System Capabilities. The switches seem to
>discover and properly list their neighbours.
>
>FusionInventory is able to discover the switches and their interfaces, 
>but the machines registered by the FusionInventory Agents are randomly 
>mapped to ports all over the place. There are "hubs" connected to 
>switches' management interfaces and probably half of the machines are 
>connected to these hubs. The other half of the machines are appearing
>on aggregated or physical uplink ports. Only a few machines are mapped
>to the physical port they are connected to.
>At first I thought the problem might be caused by reused LAG IDs, but 
>after I switched to unique IDs for the whole network nothing has 
>changed. I am not experienced with networking beyond this simple
>setup, so the trick may be with LLPD or how SNMP is configured.
>
>I would like to humbly ask the community's help on this issue since
>you probably have way more experience in this. I am happy to provide
>more information, just let me know whay you need.

Check your switches works in LLDP, like run the command to see the
neighbour on each switch.

David
++

>GLPI version: 9.1.1
>FusionInventory version: 9.1+1.0
>Firmwares:
>Cisco SG200: 1.3.7.18
>Dell PowerConnect 5548: 4.1.0.19
>Dell Networking N2048: 6.3.0.9
>
>Kind regards,
>Mate
>
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