Here we bring you ScreenShots of the Fedora 11 Installation process, as well with some of the apps that Fedora brings. Now I personally have not been a Fedora/RedHat fan for the Desktop environment since RedHat 7.3. After going through the install process and playing around for about 15 minutes, the only thing that I found impressive was how fast Fedora 11 booted. I know I will get flamed for the previous comment but this is my personal opinion.

Do not get me wrong Fedora/RedHat is a great product, for the past 10 years all I have used on the server side is RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and sometimes various flavors of BSD.  Well enjoy the ScreenShots below..

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Here we bring you yet another set of Screen Shots, but this time it is of Linux Mint 7 ( Gloria ). Let me start off by saying this... I've been using/managing Linux for almost 11 years now and I want a desktop that just works.. I am so out of that phase on making things work together ( Unless it is programming ). Linux Mint has done that for me, so I really want to say THANK YOU to Linux Mint Staff and Users for all the work you guys have done and for taking the time to make my life easier.

Linux Mints crew never stops to amaze me with the quality of work that they do. The GDM Login Manager theme that comes by default is so CLEAN. The Art Work that comes with Mint is always so eye pleasing. The amount of work that has gone into the MintInstall is amazing. The reason Linux Mint is always on the top 5 of DistroWatch is because of the amount of effort that has gone into making Mint look so clean and easy to use with all the apps that a basic user requires . The Linux Mint crew 1st priority is the user and it reflects in their work. I have been using Linux Mint since the beginning of last year and no matter how many other distro's I try, I always come back to Mint.

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I'm really excited to introduce Port Report Update 1.9  aka the Switch Port Mapper Tool. We've done quite a few code modifications to the previous release of Port Report. The most important feature we just finish adding to Port Report, is to detect CDP Neighbors during the scan for MAC Addresses or IP Addresses. We are still adding features as the days pass, so please stay tuned....

Revision 1.9
Code changes and Added CDP support..

• Detect CDP Neighbors during the scan for MAC Addresses or IP Addresses
  

You can download the script http://www.linuxdynasty.org/Port-Report-Project/

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The Port Report Project is essentially a Switch Port Mapper Tool or a Switch Port Mapping Tool like a few other commercial products out there, except The Port Report Project is free. Right now there is no GUI or WEB interface for the project but it is in the works. 

This project started off as being a simple 150 line script that did something quite simple... Its only purpose was to find MAC Addresses on a switch. Then I was asked could you  also search by IP, so I added that. Now I was asked to search by Port, so I added that. Well you get where this is all going.... My goal now is to build the equivalent of other commercial port mapping tools, but Open Source....

On this page I will be keeping all the updates to this Project, so please keep checking back every now and again for updates.
You can get any revision of the Port Report tool here http://www.linuxdynasty.org/Port-Report-Project/

This script requires, Pysnmp and Pyasn1. If you have python-setuptools, you can install it by running this..
easy_install pysnmp, easy_install pyasn1

Three things you will need for this script to work..

1. Pysnmp
2. Pyasn1
3. SNMP Access to the switch you want to talk too and its community string.

1. install python-setuptools
   
2. then run easy_install pysnmp
3. and easy_install pyasn1
4. or you can download the 2 modules manually.
   pysnmp and pyasn1
5. then unzip the 2 files and in each directory run python setup.py install
   

I am using the following revisions from the python cheese shop pysnmp 4.1.7a  and pyasn1 0.0.6

Revision 1.9
Code changes and Added CDP Support

• Detect CDP Neighbors during the scan for MAC Addresses or IP Addresses

Revision 1.8
Here is a quick update.....

• I just add dns reverse lookups to the output of this script.

Revision 1.7
Adds support to the following devices..

1. Cisco
   
   • Catalyst 6509 w/ Supervisor 720 running IOS
   • Catalyst 3560
   • Catalyst 3550 (SMI)
     
   • Cisco CIGESM series Chassis Blades
   • Cisco Catalyst 2960
     
2. Foundry
   
   • Foundry Server Iron
     
3. Nortel
   
   • Nortel Passport 8600
   • Nortel 5520 Ethernet Routing Switch
     
4. HP
   
   • HP Procurve 5406xl

Revision 1.6
New additions to this revision ....

• Support for HP Procurve Switches, ( Tested on the newer versions of HP )
• combined switch_report.py in port_report.py.
• Added --verbose flag

Previous Releases....

• Search by MAC or IP or PORT

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The Port Report Project is essentially a Switch Port Mapper Tool or a Switch Port Mapping Tool like a few other commercial products out there, except The Port Report Project is free.  Right now there is no GUI or WEB interface for the project but it is in the works.

Here is a quick update..... I just add dns reverse lookups to the output of this script.. So if you have Pointer Records set on a good part of your infrastructure, you will get the host name to those MAC Addresses that have the IP addresses in the ARP table.

You can download Port Report 1.8 here http://www.linuxdynasty.org/View-details/Port-Report-Project/43-Port-Report-1.8.html
Example below...

Here is an example from running port_report.py with the --report option..

GigabitEthernet3/2,00 50 56 aa 06 63,192.168.101.64,lists.linuxdynasty.org,vlan32,up,up,fullDuplex,1000mb,conan vmnic6
GigabitEthernet3/2,00 50 56 aa 1e 9b,192.168.101.54,Pointer Record Not set for 192.168.101.54,vlan32,up,up,fullDuplex,1000mb,conan vmnic6
GigabitEthernet2/28,00 11 21 35 1d da,The IP Address for 00 11 21 35 1d da is not in the ARP Table,None,vlan15,up,up,fullDuplex,1000mb,
 

Here is an example running  with the --pname option..

SwitchPort = GigabitEthernet3/2
SwitchPortSpeed = 1000mb
SwitchPortDuplex = fullDuplex
SwitchVlan = vlan32
SnmpHostName = requestTimedOut
HostDescr = requestTimedOut
HostMAC  = 00 50 56 aa 06 63
HostIP = 192.168.101.64
HostName = lists.linuxdynasty.org

SwitchPort = GigabitEthernet3/2
SwitchPortSpeed = 1000mb
SwitchPortDuplex = fullDuplex
SwitchVlan = vlan32
SnmpHostName = requestTimedOut
HostDescr = requestTimedOut
HostMAC  = 00 50 56 aa 1e 9b
HostIP = 192.168.101.54
HostName = Pointer Record Not set for 192.168.101.54

SwitchPort = GigabitEthernet3/2
SwitchPortSpeed = 1000mb
SwitchPortDuplex = fullDuplex
SwitchVlan = vlan5
SnmpHostName = No SNMP Access
HostDescr = No SNMP Access
HostMAC  = 00 50 56 aa 51 6a
HostIP = The IP Address for 00 50 56 aa 51 6a is not in the ARP Table
HostName = None
 

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