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Hi All,

A couple of weeks ago I started looking for alternatives to PRTG and have settled on netXMS, its fantastic guys. Really impressed.

One thing i'm trying to archive is a MAC vendor lookup, I'll explain.  When I run an auto discovery in PRTG it will find each device on the network and poll for information, without SNMP an agent or WMI connection it will show the node vendor information determined by it's MAC address.  I know this is not 100% accurate but can help sorting devices when first scanning a new network.

So with a simple script i can poll each node for it's MAC address but is there any way I could perform a lookup via an api (http://www.macvendors.com/api) or some other means to detemine the device vendor and store it in a DCI or in the nodes comments??

Thanks in advance

Glenn

Ok, little more testing and I've managed to do it.

Requires nmap on server, used an External Parameter in the agent config :

ExternalParameter = MAC.Check(*):nmap -sP -n $1 | grep MAC

Created a template DCI to read MAC.Check(%{node_primary_ip}) via the server as a proxy node, applied the template, bobs your uncle... all working   

Once again , really impressed with NetXMS, this is going to be a fun tool to learn.