Cisco EOS/EOL Discovery

Question

Hello All,
I have the unfortunate task to discover the Hardware/Software EOL + Hardware/Software manufacturers support details off one of our clients LANs
The client does have Ciscoworks LanMan - but unfortunately for me its pre dates version 3.2, so this means I cannot manually or automatically use the EOL discovery within, plus there is no funding for available for an software upgrade either.
So apart from manually shifting through each device - is there any other way I can acheive this discovery?
res
Paul     

Answer 1

Hi Paul,
I'm sure there are other tools, but if you've a Linux/UNIX host which has SSH/telnet access to the devices on the LAN, then RANCID is one option. This tool can be up and running in a few hours and doesn't do a bad job of getting inventory details. And it's released under a modified BSD license so there's no cost.
This is the part numbers it collects from one of my Catalyst 6500, and as you can see, the part numbers are those that should be recognised straight from the EoS announcement.
[sfuller@rhel8 configs]$ grep PID ocs6504-1.ntilab.net | sort | uniq -c
      2 !PID: CLK-7600
      1 !PID: FAN-MOD-4HS
      1 !PID: PWR-2700-AC/4
      1 !PID: WS-C6504-E
      2 !PID: WS-F6700-CFC
      1 !PID: WS-F6K-PFC3A
      1 !PID: WS-SUP720
      1 !PID: WS-SUP720-BASE
      1 !PID: WS-X6724-SFP
      1 !PID: WS-X6748-GE-TX
Regards