Switch portreport about offline Ports with Downtime

testet on Cisco Catalyst and Aruba / HP ProCurve switches

Ansible sends you an email with all offline ports and their description

Combine it with a cron to automate the process

Installation

CentOS

yum install perl-Net-SNMP
yum install ansible

Usage

add switch with name and ip to switchlist

change SNMP community in report.pl

chmod u+x report.pl

change "offline_ports" in portreport.yml to the path where the file should be created

add the ip address of your mailserver

ansible-playbook /path/to/portreport.yml

Cron

For example: Every 1st of a month at 7:30

30 07 1 * * ansible-playbook /path/to/portreport.yml