Re: [xymon] MAC address in the client data?

[Vernon Everett <everett.vernon (at) gmail.com>]

Hi Martin

I believe this to be a Solaris feature. And looks like it is also the case
on others.
See here http://www.coffer.com/mac_info/locate-unix.html

And yes, I think sudo is the simplest way of getting round it.
However, if you have conscientious objections to using root and/or sudo, you
could try messing about with the output of arp -a.
A bit of creative scripting, and you should get something you could tack
onto the output of ifconfig -a.
YMMV.

Cheers
      Vernon



On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward (at) colt.net> wrote:

>  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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