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VBScript to automaticly install and config snmp

Reto — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:41:49 GMT

Hello there,

as a fool it-networker, i've written a VBScript which checks automaticly if the snmp service is installed or not. If yes it just configure it, if not it first install the snmp service from a network i386 source and then configure it. I know the script is written not so well but please feel free to modify or update it...

ok here it goes (Copy the script into a texteditor and save it as nameofthescript.vbs):

' *************************************************************************************
' Beschreibung: Script zur automatischen Installation und Konfiguration des SNMP
' Services auf den Servern Rechnern welche durch WU überwacht werden
' sollen.
'
' erstellt am: 01.03.2008
' Copyright: Key Net AG
' Author: Reto Bösch
' Version: 1.0
' geändert am: -
' *************************************************************************************

'Variablen deklarieren

'Konstante definieren
Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002

'Lokaler Computer wird verwendet
strComputer = "."

'Definition der neuen SNMP Communities
SNMPRead = "key_net"
' *** remarked da nur read gesetzt wird
' SNMPWrite = "SNMPReadandWriteCommunity"

'Definition des neuen SNMP Host
SNMPHost = "192.168.254.70"

'SNMP bereits installiert
isnmp = 0

'Prüfe ob SNMP bereits auf dem Rechner installiert ist

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colServiceList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Service")

strServiceName = "snmp"

If Not IsNull(colServiceList) Then
For Each objService In colServiceList
If LCase(strServiceName) = LCase(objService.Name) Then
isnmp = 1
End If
Next
End If

If isnmp = 1 Then
'snmp konfigurieren
confSNMP

Else
'********************************************************************************************************
'snmp installieren & konfigurieren

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

'Snmp unattendet Text Datei erstellen
Set uaFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("c:\snmp.ua",True)
uaFile.Writeline "[NetOptionalComponents]"
uaFile.Writeline "SNMP = 1"
uaFile.Close

os = determineOperatingSystem(strComputer)
sp = determineServicePack(strComputer)
WScript.Echo ("Will add SNMP files for " & os & " with service pack " & sp)
editServerRegistry strComputer, os, sp
RunRmtProcess "snmp"
WScript.Sleep 120000
confSNMP

Set objShell = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
End If
WScript.quit

'******FUNCTION AND SUBROUTINES******

'Betriebssystem auslesen
Function determineOperatingSystem(server)
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & server & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
determineOperatingSystem = objOperatingSystem.Caption
Next
End Function

'Service Pack auslesen
Function determineServicePack(server)
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & server & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
determineServicePack = objOperatingSystem.ServicePackMajorVersion
Next
End Function

'Firewall Konfigurieren
Sub setFirewallSettings(srv,serverOS,spVer)
Select Case serverOS
Case "Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
Set objFirewall = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")
Set objPolicy = objFirewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile
If objPolicy.FirewallEnabled = TRUE Then
Set objPort = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwOpenPort")
objPort.Port = 161
objPort.Protocol = 17
objPort.Name = "SNMP"
objPort.Enabled = True
Set colPorts = objPolicy.GloballyOpenPorts
errReturn = colPorts.Add(objPort)
End If
Case "Microsoft Windows 2000 Server"
Case "Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition"
Case Else
WScript.Echo ("Operating System is not Windows 2000 Server or Server 2003 Standard Edition. This script will now close!")
WScript.Quit
End Select
End Sub

Sub editServerRegistry(srv,serverOS,spVer)
Select Case serverOS
Case "Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
If spVer = 2 Then
i386Location = "\\knsrv01\kbase\Microsoft\Software\ClientOS\WinXP\I386\SP2"
Else
WScript.Echo("Service pack level is not at 2. This script will now close!")
WScript.Quit
End If
Case "Microsoft Windows 2000 Server"
If spVer = 3 Then
i386Location = "\\\path"
ElseIf spVer = 4 Then
i386Location = "\\\path"
Else
WScript.Echo("Service pack level is not at 3 or 4. This script will now close!")
WScript.Quit
End If

Case "Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition"
If spVer = 1 Then
i386Location = "\\\path"
ElseIf spVer = 2 Then
i386Location = "\\\path"
Else
WScript.Echo("Service pack level is not at 1 or 2. This script will now close!")
WScript.Quit
End If
Case Else
WScript.Echo ("Operating System is not Windows 2000 Server or Server 2003 Standard Edition. This script will now close!")
WScript.Quit
End Select

'GET CURRENT REGISTRY VALUES SO THEY MAY BE SAVED
Set objRegistry=GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & srv & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
objRegistry.GetExpandedStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup","SourcePath",oldRegVal1
objRegistry.GetExpandedStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup","ServicePackSourcePath",oldRegVal2
objRegistry.GetExpandedStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion","SourcePath",oldRegVal3

If oldRegVal1 <> i386Location Then
objRegistry.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup","SourcePath",i386Location
objRegistry.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup","SourcePath.old",oldRegVal1
End If

If oldRegVal2 <> i386Location Then
objRegistry.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup","ServicePackSourcePath",i386Location
objRegistry.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup","ServicePackSourcePath.old",oldRegVal2
End If

If oldRegVal3 <> i386Location Then
objRegistry.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion","SourcePath",i386Location
objRegistry.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion","SourcePath.old",oldRegVal3
End If
End Sub

Sub RunRmtProcess(process)

'SNMP INSTALLATION
If process="snmp" Then
objShell.run "sysocmgr /i:%windir%\inf\sysoc.inf /u:c:\snmp.ua /x /q /r", vbHide
End If
End Sub

'snmp konfigurieren
Sub confSNMP()

'Bestehende SNMP Hosts auslesen

Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" &_
strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")

strKeyPath = "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\PermittedManagers"

oReg.EnumValues HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath,_
arrValueNames, arrValueTypes

If Not IsNull(arrValueNames) Then
For i=0 To UBound(arrValueNames)
oReg.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,arrValueNames(i),strValue

'Bestehende SNMP Hosts löschen
oReg.DeleteValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,arrValueNames(i)
Next
End If

'Neuer SNMP Host hinzufügen
oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,i+1,SNMPHost

'Objekte auf Null setzen
strKeyPath=Null
arrValueNames=Null
arrValueTypes=Null

'Bereits definierte SNMP Communities auslesen

strKeyPath = "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\ValidCommunities"

oReg.EnumValues HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath,_
arrValueNames, arrValueTypes

If Not IsNull(arrValueNames) Then
For i=0 To UBound(arrValueNames)
oReg.GetDWordValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,arrValueNames(i),dwValue

'SNMP Communities löschen
oReg.DeleteValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,arrValueNames(i)
Next
End If

'SNMP Communities setzen
oReg.SetDwordValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,SNMPRead,4
' *** remarked da nur read gesetzt wird
' oReg.SetDwordValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,SNMPWrite,8

'SNMP Service auf automatisch und starten

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colServiceList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Service where Name='SNMP'")

If Not IsNull(colServiceList) Then

For Each objService In colServiceList

WScript.Echo objService.StartMode

StartMode = UCase(objService.StartMode)

If (StartMode = "MANUAL") Or (StartMode = "DISABLED") Then
errReturnCode = objService.ChangeStartMode("Auto")
End If
errReturnCode = objService.StartService()
Next
End If

'Objekte auf Null setzten
colServiceList = Null
objService = Null
objWMIService = Null

'SNMP-Traps Service deaktivieren und stoppen

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colServiceList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Service where Name='SNMPTRAP'")

If Not IsNull(colServiceList) Then

For Each objService In colServiceList

StartMode = UCase(objService.StartMode)

If (StartMode = "MANUAL") Or (StartMode = "AUTO") Then
errReturnCode = objService.ChangeStartMode("Disabled")
errReturnCode = objService.StopService()
End If
Next
End If

'Objekte auf Null setzten
colServiceList = Null
objService = Null
objWMIService = Null

'Firewall konfigurieren
os = determineOperatingSystem(strComputer)
sp = determineServicePack(strComputer)
setFirewallSettings strComputer, os, sp

End Sub

TPP on production environment

bradleysp — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:29:23 GMT

Is it possilble to apply the TPP for WhatsConnected to a live installation? I've set up the TPP on a demo, but I can't seem to activate it offline. Everything works, the licensing website is giving me a license file, but every time I start it I get told I have to activate. I know the TPP ends soon, but I would liek to try out some of the import/export features, and running on our live installation would be good.

I can provide license numbers on request :-)

Thanks

Simon Bradley

WhatsConnected has been released!

Jason Benton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:17:08 GMT

WhatsConnected is now available for purchase!

Be one of the first 20 customers to purchase WhatsConnected and get Microsoft Visio Professional 2007 for FREE!

(US $559.95 Value)

[url=http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/whatsconnected/index.aspx]http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/whatsconnected/index.aspx[/url]

Jason

WC Mapping??

Ill Will — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:06:24 GMT

Currently WC has done a descent job with the multi layer connections as from what I have managed to inspect so far but the Main atraction to this software was the ability to Map Network trought its discovery. I am not sure is the mapping portion there yet.

WhatsConnected LIVE webinars - Dec 3 and Dec 9

Jason Williams — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:58:12 GMT

In support of the upcoming WhatsConnected launch, we will be hosting 2 LIVE Webinars:
December 3 at 2pm and December 9 at 10am ET.

Register at: http://www.whatsupgold.com/campaigns/whatsconnected-webinar.aspx

Thank you,

Only half of my switches are detected

pato — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:09:14 GMT

Hello

I've run a network scan on my network and it seems that all devices are found.

The problem is, only around half of my switches are being recognized as switches.

All of them are from Cisco. Some of the same model are detected while others remain as unknown. The unknown ones also haven't any SNMP details shown under System.

Models which seem to be detected correctly are:
catalyst2960G24
catalyst2960G48
catalyst3560G24PS
cat6509
catalyst37xxStack

But a lot of other stacks aren't detected and also the 2970G series isn't detected. But a lot of switches of the same type (maybe different software release) are not being detected.

Any idea why that is?

Thanks,
Pato

License Issues

oaf357 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:30:32 GMT

I installed WhatsConnected was prompted to re-activate WUG, plugged in the serial number, did an offline activation. Closed WUG/WhatsConnected after some work, opened it again; rinse lather repeat. No matter what I do I'm prompted to activate WUG again. Very frustrating to the point my next question will be; how do I get rid of WhatsConnected.

unable to load engine configuration file

A.P.Sherwood — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:43:01 GMT

Downloaded and installed the 12.3.1 version ( as far as I could tell all went well )

trying to bring up WhatsConnected and get the following

Could not load engine configuration file: The magic number in the GZip header is not correct. Make sure you are passing a GZip stream

WhatsConnected as a Plug-In to WhatsUp

SHutc — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:34:36 GMT

OK, the subject line may sound odd, but from what little I've played with WhatsConnected, it behaves like a stand-alone product -- it doesn't interact with the WhatsUp database.

I would like to use WhatsConnected (or WhatsUp) to build a network diagram / map based on the info I already have in WhatsUp, rather than having to interrogate the network again.

I read that RC1 has "Expanded support for NON-SNMP device visibility in the discovery results" and that may solve some of my problems, but it still requires another discovery.

:unsure: I have not yet installed RC1, so maybe I'm premature here, but I thought I'd share my thoughts and if I'm wrong, maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks for listening!

Rambling thoughts

Lionel K — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:41:14 GMT

Nice product. It does what WhatsUp discovery processes should have done.

But, as Don says, it'd be nice if we could use this to import into Whatsup, for real testing, as I need to understand how the end product will look. I just can't use the Whatsup Discovery for my needs as it creates an absolute mess. I always go thru the painful process of building my networks on WhatsUp manually.

And yes, what is the Visio Diagram going to look like? If this is truly technical preview, where our findings and suggestions are taken into consideration before final release, then best we get that sorted on the disabled features too.

Issues I have come across so far are...

While doing an ARP discovery, I get Error messages popping up saying "Application Error: Invalid IP address string." The discovery carries on regardless; until you click [ok] on one of the error messages. Then the WhatsConnected app just quits. No questions or suicide notes. Not sure what's causing the errors. Not sure how to find out, but I can replicate it.

It cleverly ;) identifies a PC, or any other device that has more than one interface, as a router. Ok, we all make mistakes, but it wont let me correct it. Or am I missing something here?

Shoretel Phones

hidoa — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:55:43 GMT

Anyone tried this with Shoretel phones?

MPLS structure

smurf69 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:20:06 GMT

Does anybody have any experience with use of WhatsConnected on a MPLS nettwork.
It seems that the defaul engine in WUG is not able to enterpet the MPLS structure.

Anyway to test the plug-in with a production WUG?

snickle — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:18:30 GMT

I have 12.3 already installed, so when I try to install the preview version it complains that a newer version is already installed. Anyway around this?

Export to WhatsUp

Lionel K — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:15:54 GMT

Ok, so WC does all the hard work for you and finds all the bits and pieces and ties them together correctly...

... but it chooses the wrong icons.

On WC I had Swicthes and IP-Phones correctly identified. When I export to Whatsup, I get "HP Device" for the switch, and a workstation for a phone....

However, when I export to Visio, it is perfect.

Need to install on a standalone network, no internet

jumpmaster2 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:34:57 GMT

I need to install on a standalone netork with no internet connection.

Download keeps aborting at 35%

Ian Beyer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:04:52 GMT

Attempting to download the TPP installer and still unsuccessful after 4 attempts, each time aborting at about 35% with Firefox telling me the source file could not be read.

RC5 issues

Lionel K — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:52:30 GMT

Hi,

A few things...

Although there is a facility to create your own devices with their unique OIDs. This does not seem to have any effect, as they are still misinterpreted. Not sure how to force it to accept what I tell it.

On the topology map, devices connected in a star are represented in a linear fashion, i.e. Devices 123 are all connected to devices A, but WC shows it as A-1-2-3.

WC seems to have a problem identifying router connectivity. I end up with a few separated networks, instead of one interconnected one. All my WAN links are numbered.

Cisco gigastack and topology not working correctly

jaraujo — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:57:00 GMT

Hi,

We have some Cisco switch's connected with gigastack, which is a 1Gbps half-duplex hub between the connected devices.
As far as i can see, whatsconnected is not expecting this and doesn't detects the links correctly.
Can you look into this?

Thanks

José Araújo

having a problem configuring SSH protocol

A.P.Sherwood — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:21:36 GMT

having a problem configuring SSH protocol

I start WhatsConnected -> configure -> protocol setting

can't find the SSH root node to allow me to configure

I see ICMP and SNMP

Have I missed something in configuring

Problem with RC5

A.P.Sherwood — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:34:33 GMT

downloaded RC5 and reinstalled WhatsUP and am getting a new error

As soon as I go to tools - WhatsConnected

Could not load engine configuration fil: XML error on line 157

Discovery Problem

schurl85 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:39:26 GMT

Hi!

I can't discover a subnet. everytime i try to discover subnet's connected to the gateway, i get the error attached.

i also attached the log file

Export limits and Visio Export

Jason Benton — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:37:00 GMT

All,
We are considering alternative options to the 10 device export limit for the Technical Preview. We decided to limit the functionality because of the nature of this plug in. It is not something that most people will need to perform frequently (Exporting the Layer 2 discovery to WUG/Visio).

Would increasing the export limit to 25 devices provide a more reasonable evaluation?

Thanks for the feedback.

Jason

Here's a screen shot of an exported map to Visio. Click for a larger version.

[url=http://preview.ipswitch.com/images/NetworkManagement/WC_Visio_Export.jpg][img]http://preview.ipswitch.com/images/NetworkManagement/WC_Visio_Export_Thumb.jpg[/img][/url]

WhatsConnected as a standalone app

Mark Bell — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:22:57 GMT

I realize that WC was designed as a plugin for WUG but I see a lot of value to having it as a standalone application. In my business, I am sometimes asked to come in and work on network issues where even the administrators do not have a good idea how everything is set up and the documentation (if there is any at all) is inadequate. If I had WC on my laptop and could come into the site, run the app, and produce a good inventory and diagram, that would help out immensely.

Since it appears that Visio must be installed on the computer where WC is loaded for the Visio export to work that is another situation where having WC installed on a user PC would be useful. Though Visio is not outrageously expensive, it's still an additional cost to buy a license for the server where I would already have it installed on my laptop. Plus, I like to minimize the number of applications that are loaded on any server and requiring Visio on the WUG/WC server is one more place where the software must be maintained, updated, etc. This is not a huge problem, just more of an annoyance.

network discovery triggers WUG state changes

Mark Bell — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:43:14 GMT

When I do a network discovery through WC, all of my devices go down in WUG. They only stay down for a short time but they do go down. The puzzling thing is that even devices that are not directly connected to the LAN (like a router out on the Road Runner network) go down. Even devices (i.e. a printer) that only have the Ping active monitor configured with no SNMP or anything else change state.

It seems that the state changes in WUG only happen when I'm discovering several subnets at a time. If I only perform discovery on one or two subnets WUG seems to be o.k.

device type during discovery

Mark Bell — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:56:22 GMT

Again, I had posted this in the wrong forum...

What does WhatsConnected use to determine the device type? I did a discovery on my network and it detected my Cisco 1130 and 1240 wireless access points as switches. It was also unable to determine the device type for my ASA 5500 and APC Symmetra and PDUs.

Perhaps I'm missing something but I could not figure out how to manually set the device type correctly.

I've got all of the mibs in the \Ipswitch\Whatsup\Data\Mibs directory. Can WC use CDP or LLDP? It did not see any of the CIsco IP phones I have connected to one of my switches but did see the APs and servers connected to the same switch.

some devices not linked

Mark Bell — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:05:28 GMT

After running the WC discovery, there are a number of devices (IP phones, PCs, network-enabled printers) that are discovered but not linked to anything. The common thing with all of these devices is that they are connected to Cisco 1811 routers in remote buildings. When go to the "ARP Cache" tab of the 1811 device properties, it has those devices' IP and MAC addresses shown.

Another strange thing is that the 1811s and Aironet 1242 that they are uplinked to are off on their own. "BITS-AP-2" has a wireless backhaul to the main building and is associated to BITS-AP-4 (another Aironet 1242) but there is no link shown in WC.

WC sees the 1811s as a "wireless-ap" instead of as a "router". The 1811 is a regular router, it just happens to have a wireless interface that I'm using as an uplink to the rest of the network.

I've uploaded a screen shot of the discovery map so I hope that helps illustrate what I'm talking about.

Application Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

ethanlin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:59:13 GMT

Tools->WhatsConnected,and got the error message.
I tried to setup whatsconnected tpp on two machines and got the same problem.
OS:WinXP sp2 traditional chinese

[quote][FATAL Sep-12 10:52:34 1]: Application Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NetworkViewer.DeviceCategoriesForm.DeviceCategoriesForm_Resize(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnResize(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnResize(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnSizeChanged(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.UpdateBounds(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 clientWidth, Int32 clientHeight)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.UpdateBounds(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetBoundsCore(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, BoundsSpecified specified)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.SetBoundsCore(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, BoundsSpecified specified)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ScaleControl(SizeF factor, BoundsSpecified specified)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.ScaleControl(SizeF factor, BoundsSpecified specified)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ScaleControl(SizeF factor, BoundsSpecified specified)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ScaleControl(SizeF includedFactor, SizeF excludedFactor, Control requestingControl)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.Scale(SizeF includedFactor, SizeF excludedFactor, Control requestingControl)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.PerformAutoScale(Boolean includedBounds, Boolean excludedBounds)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.PerformNeededAutoScaleOnLayout()
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.OnLayoutResuming(Boolean performLayout)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ResumeLayout(Boolean performLayout)
at NetworkViewer.DeviceCategoriesForm.InitializeComponent()
at NetworkViewer.DeviceCategoriesForm..ctor(MainForm mainForm, Network network)
at NetworkViewer.MainForm.CreateDeviceCategoriesForm()
at NetworkViewer.MainForm..ctor()
at NetworkViewer.Program.Main()[/quote]

IP-Phones and PCs

Lionel K — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:47:02 GMT

Ok, having trouble with my IP Phones again.

When I scan a small LAN that has IP-Phones and PCs with no VLANs separating them, I get a picture with the phones attached to the Switch, and PCs sitting at the bottom of the Topology map, with no connections to anything - The links tab shows nothing.

The actually connection has PCs connecting to a phone, which is then connected to teh switch. The IP-phone acts as a 2 port switch, which WC does not seem to understand.

minor issue - User Guide link not working

Mark Bell — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:01:25 GMT

When I go to Help -> User Guide from the main WC window, I get "Page Not Found". This is the link it's trying to use:

http://docs.ipswitch.com/NM/92_WhatsUp%2520Gold%2520v12.3/04_Plug-ins/WhatsConnected/02_Guides/WhatsConnected%2520for%2520WhatsUp%2520Gold%2520v12.3%2520User%2520Guide.pdf?k_id=whatsupgold_com_wug_documents_worldwide_wugdocswhatsupgoldv123

Phantom Links

Lionel K — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:25:40 GMT

I have a number of IP-phones on a VLAN on our LAN. When I put these into a Topology Map, it shows them all connected to each other, as per the attached screen snippet.

When I look at one the device's properties, it only shows one line - to the Backbone Switch, not the edge Switch.
The phones are all grouped together based on the Edge switch they are connected to.

The phones are Avaya
The Switches are HP Procurve POE switches.

"Invalid IP address string" error

Mark Bell — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:26:43 GMT

Sorry, I mistakenly posted this in the NetFlow forum first...

When performing a WC discovery on my network, I got a couple of popup boxes with the message "Application Error: Invalid IP address string". I was doing a very basic discovery just using the WUG server's default gateway as the seed device and did not specify any other scopes.

The big problem is, as soon as I click "OK", the whole WhatsConnected window just disappears as if it's crashing. Prior to clicking "OK", the scan was continuing in the background and I could see it had discovered 49 devices.

I've attached a screen shot of the error. I've done this several times and have been able to reproduce the issue each time.

I've uploaded the discovery.log file.

my thoughts.

DonC — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:48:56 GMT

I just installed the Tech Preview. so far, i am impressed. However, a couple of questions - and maybe its my own ingnorance, but.

Is the "Technical Preview" a fancy word for "demo" ? If not, then the product should be fully operational - no limits, no disabled features. I like that there is an ability to export the WhatsConnected data to Whatsup AND Visio - however, I cant use either one, and that would weigh VERY HEAVILY on if we bought this plugin.

Will there be/is there any way to run reports against WhatsConnected w/o importing the maps/data into Whatsup?

As I stated, so far - i like the plugin. Adds quite a bit to Whatsup.

WUG 12.3 Requirement

MarcusClarke — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:01:22 GMT

According to the relase notes, this code requires WUG 12.3, but this version doesn't appear to have been released. What's the deal here?