MAC address in the client data?

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 <user-2d33a6eb6a05@xymon.invalid> 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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