How to Export Firmware Version and SysDescr Values When Using the Modelinggateway

Products

• CA Spectrum
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

 

I need to export Spectrum inventory, including the device software version.  When exporting via the Modelinggateway
  the device details do not seem to include this information.

Environment

Release : 20.2

Component : Spectrum Core / SpectroSERVER

Cause

 

The  Device Export Attributes in the .modelinggatewayresource.xml configuration file has a default
   set of attributes to export. This can be expanded by manually updating to include desired attributes.

Resolution

The .modelinggatewayresource.xml file can be modified to include attributes like NRM_RunningFirmware/0x12de0 and
    sysDescr/0x100052.


- make a backup of the original configuration file
      $SPECROOT/SS-Tools/.modelinggatewayresource.xml  to $SPECROOT/SS-Tools/.modelinggatewayresource.xml.orig

- Edit the <DeviceExportAttributes> section of the configuration and add entries for the desired attributes

Example

        <NRM_RunningFirmware attribute_id="0x12de0" />
        <sysDescr attribute_id="0x10052" />

 

 

For this example, I set the ExportConfiguration to only export devices to minimize output

 

Run the modelinggateway export

Syntax:
modelinggateway.bat -vnm <vnm_name> [-user <SS user>] [-i <importfile>/{<importfile1>,<importfile2>...} | [ -cmdb ] -e <exportfile>] [-o <outputfile>] [-debug <debugfile>]


cd $SPECROOT/SS-Tools/
./modelinggateway.bat -vnm <landscapeName> -e device_export_with_firmware



This will then generate a file named device_export_with_firmware.xml

Looking at one of the device entries in the xml file we can see the firmware and sysDescr attribute values are present