ios show mac address-table

[sjtarik]

Checking the implementation and the variety of output on ios devices, I collect these three types of output for the same command. Can we discuss how to handle all these under single template?

Legend: * - primary entry
age - seconds since last seen
n/a - not available

vlan mac address type learn age ports
------+----------------+--------+-----+----------+--------------------------

Unicast Entries
vlan mac address type protocols port
---------+---------------+--------+---------------------+-------------------------

      Mac Address Table

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Vlan Mac Address Type Ports

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[itdependsnetworks]

@sjtarik can you provide examples of your show mac address-table?

[sjtarik]

@itdependsnetworks @GGabriele Hi Ken, Gabriel, I have a working template and three different sample data. I will post the patch on 29th. Let's discuss how we can merge the three different sample data for a single template. Or should we separate the templates as well?

[GGabriele]

Hi @sjtarik, can you please provide the whole data for all three sample outputs?

[sjtarik]

mac_sample_1.txt
mac_sample_2.txt
mac_sample_3.txt

[sjtarik]

Attaching the three sample data I collected from different IOS platforms for the same command.

[sjtarik]

This is what I propose, combine all data in a single sample data file and handle all with a single template file as below:

Value DESTINATION_ADDRESS (\w+.\w+.\w+)
Value TYPE (\w+)
Value VLAN (\w+)
Value DESTINATION_PORT (\S+)

Start
^[\*|\s]\s+${VLAN}\s+${DESTINATION_ADDRESS}\s+${TYPE}\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+${DESTINATION_PORT} -> Record
^\s+${VLAN}\s+${DESTINATION_ADDRESS}\s+${TYPE}\s+\S+\s+${DESTINATION_PORT} -> Record
^\s+${VLAN}\s+${DESTINATION_ADDRESS}\s+${TYPE}\s+${DESTINATION_PORT} -> Record

[itdependsnetworks]

This should work for all known use cases. I think it makes it a bit clearer doing it like this

Value DESTINATION_ADDRESS (\w+.\w+.\w+)
Value TYPE (\w+)
Value VLAN (\w+)
Value DESTINATION_PORT (\S+)

Start
  ^Destination\s+Address\s+Address\s+Type\s+VLAN\s+Destination\s+Port -> TYPE1
  ^\s+vlan\s+mac address\s+type\s+learn\s+age\s+ports -> TYPE2
  ^\s+vlan\s+mac address\s+type\s+protocols\s+port -> TYPE3
  ^Vlan\s+Mac Address\s+Type\s+Ports -> TYPE4

TYPE1
  ^${DESTINATION_ADDRESS}\s+${TYPE}\s+${VLAN}\s+${DESTINATION_PORT} -> Record

TYPE2
  ^[\*|\s]\s+${VLAN}\s+${DESTINATION_ADDRESS}\s+${TYPE}\s+\S+\s+\d+\s+${DESTINATION_PORT} -> Record

TYPE3
  ^\s+${VLAN}\s+${DESTINATION_ADDRESS}\s+${TYPE}\s+\S+\s+${DESTINATION_PORT} -> Record

TYPE4
  ^\s+${VLAN}\s+${DESTINATION_ADDRESS}\s+${TYPE}\s+${DESTINATION_PORT} -> Record

I can build the parsed files for the test cases given early next week.

[sjtarik]

Looks cool. All cases known to us :), who knows how many different IOS, IOS-XE platforms sold out there.