I'm always a bit puzzled that so few network management systems are willing or able to place themselves in the network topology.
As I always say, getting the topology is 60% of the solution of your network problem.
As much as, or even more as I like to know where my callmanagers connect to the network, I would like to know the same for ciscoworks.
Whatever ciscoworks has to say about a network is directly related to its position in the network.
There are windows tools that can make a pc speak CDP, but none of them are able/willing to give this information via SNMP. The callmanager SNMP/CDP agent is the only exception.
Is there a way to separate this agent from the callmanager software? It will obviously not be able to see the CCM mib parts anymore.
Would there be a solution for Solaris to do something similar.
I think it would be cool if ciscoworks can put itself on the topology map.
Cheers,
Michel
