MAC address in the client data?

[Ward, Martin]

All,

 

I don't know if this quirk is peculiar to Solaris or is the same on
other flavours of UNIX, but if you are not the root user and you run the
ifconfig(1m) command it does not show the MAC address assigned to the
interfaces. Here is what I see in Xymon's client data view for one host:

 

[ifconfig]

lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu
8232 index 1

        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 

ce0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2

        inet 10.5.2.46 netmask ffffffe0 broadcast 10.5.2.63

 

If I login as root and run the command I see:

lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu
8232 index 1

        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

ce0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2

        inet 10.5.2.46 netmask ffffffe0 broadcast 10.5.2.63

        ether 0:3:ba:96:e6:4f

 

I am currently writing a script to retrieve information from the stored
client data and to populate a database with that info. In this manner
when I install Xymon on a new server the configuration information is
automatically updated in my server database. The question is: How can I
get the MAC address? By default the Xymon client is installed and run
under the hobbit user ID. Is there any way I can configure the
hobbitclient-sunos.sh script to run as root?  I guess I could run the
ifconfig command using sudo and configure sudo so that it doesn't
require a password, but is there any other/better/easier/more elegant
ways of doing this?

 

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