Pre-Release Only

As at 2020-08-13, this is currently in selective pre-release to supported customers only. Please contact Opmantek to be involved.

All of the below is subject to change in released versions of Open-AudIT, however the functionality will remain the same.

We heavily suggest you  read this entire page before running any commands.

Introduction

So you have a Cisco supplied spreadsheet in .xlsb format that contains lots of great information like serial numbers, date of purchase, warranty details and more and you want to get that information into Open-AudIT for easy reporting. Say no more...

We are developing a script to just this very thing. This is a perl script for Linux Open-AudIT servers only.

Running the Script

First thing to do is to convert the spreadsheet to something workable. That's a CSV. Open the spreadsheet in your program of choice and save the relevant tab as a CSV. Copy that file to your Open-AudIT server in to the /usr/local/omk/bin directory. Name it cisco.csv.

Next, log on to your Open-AudIT server and change into the directory /usr/local/omk/bin

Now run the script. Done. It's that easy.

cd /usr/local/omk/bin
./import_cisco_into_open-audit.pl

What is imported?

But which rows are imported? We have a few rules around this, namely:

• Product Type must equal CHASSIS
• A Serial Number must be present
• Covered Line Status must be either ACTIVE, EXPIRED or SIGNED
• The Last Date of Support must be after the configured value of 2019-01-01 (see below).

You'll not see much by default until it's complete. When it has done so, you'll see a summary like below.

mark@desktop:/usr/local/opmojo/bin$ ./import_cisco_into_open-audit.pl
Start Time: Thu Aug 13 14:13:11 2020
End Time: Thu Aug 13 14:22:05 2020
Duration: 534 seconds
Location Count: 32
Device Count: 896
mark@desktop:/usr/local/opmojo/bin$

Options

We have some options that you can set by directly editing the script. They are below.

Errors and Warnings (oh my!)

You may see lines beginning with DEBUG, INFO, WARNING or ERROR. Generally only ERRORs are bad and will immediately halt the script execution.

Sample Spreadsheet Columns

Below are the columns from our current Cisco spreadsheet. If your order of these columns differs, it shouldn't matter, however your spreadsheet should contain all the columns used in the mappings below.

Mapping the spreadsheet to Open-AudIT

Below are the mappings between the spreadsheet columns and those in Open-AudIT.

In addition to the above we set a few other fields as below.

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Collaboration' and CORE::index($line->{'Product Description'}, 'Phone') != -1) { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'voip phone'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Collaboration' and CORE::index($line->{'Product Description'}, 'Camera') != -1) { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'webcam'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Computing Systems') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'computer'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Data Center Networking') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'switch'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Enterprise Routing') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'router'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Enterprise Switching') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'switch'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'IOT') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'network device'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Other') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'network device'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Security') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'firewall'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Service Provider Routing') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'router'; }

if ($line->{'Business Entity'} eq 'Wireless') { $device->{'system'}->{'type'} = 'wap'; }

We also import the list of Locations mapping the fields as below. If already present, we leave the Location as is. We test for this using the spreadsheet value for Install Site ID.

New Database Columns

As at Open-AudIT 3.4.0 we need three extra columns to populate. You can add these columns as below by running these commands on the command line of your Open-AudIT server.

mysql -u openaudit -popenauditpassword openaudit -e "ALTER TABLE system ADD end_of_production date NOT NULL DEFAULT '2000-01-01' AFTER end_of_service;"

mysql -u openaudit -popenauditpassword openaudit -e "ALTER TABLE system ADD maintenance_expires date NOT NULL DEFAULT '2000-01-01' AFTER warranty_type;"

mysql -u openaudit -popenauditpassword openaudit -e "ALTER TABLE system ADD warranty_status VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' AFTER warranty_type;"

NOTE - As at Open-AudIT 3.4.0, these attributes will not appear in the GUI. The template to enable this will ship in a future release.

Discovery and your Imported Devices

So you may already have some of these devices in Open-AudIT, you may not. How does Open-AudIT know what to do here? It all depends on the serial number. The spreadsheet doesn't contain the usual items we need to match devices (think hostname, ip, type, UUID, etc), but it does contain the device serial number. So you'll need to ensure your configuration item named 'match_serial' is set to 'y' (which is the default). As long as that is set, you can import and run discoveries in whichever order you like. Obviously discovery must be working and able to retrieve the serial from the device to perform the match. If you don't have working discovery (usually SNMP based for Cisco network equipment), you'll likely end up with duplicate devices - you have been warned! Just remember, Bulk Edit is your friend.