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.