About the project

• Purpose:

Represent the IP accounting information from cisco router in human-readable form; collect it in to the HTML reports on daily or monthly basis.

• Implementation:

  The project consists of two scripts: getdata.pl and summarize.pl

  getdata.pl

  This script fetches the accounting info from the router and collects it into the text files

  summarize.pl

  This script translates data saved by the getdata.pl into human-readable form (HTML)

• Requirements:
• Perl 5.6

  I'd agree to use any other, maybe older version of perl, but Net::SNMP 4.0 wants perl 5.6 or higher

• Net::SNMP 4.0+

  A nice well-supported module providing the object-oriented interface for SNMP

• Net::IP 1.0+

  A module for manipulating IPv4/IPv6 addresses

• A cisco router

  I'd suggest that it has:

  1. configured SNMP r/w community
  2. configured IP accounting

• Some scheduler

  I'd suggest cron for unix, and I don't have any suggestions for windows. I don't like windows. Though cipaf should run on windows anyway :)

• Authors:

Anatoly Ivanov avi@levi.spb.ru

the author of the HTML generating code, Net::SNMP compartibility, and current maintainer of the project.

Tobias Geiger tobias.geiger@web.de

the author of the idea and the first versions of cipaf.