Get list of interface name, descriptions and ip address

trumee

Hello,

I want get a list of interface names, descriptions and their ip addresses via cli to feed into zabbix/influxdb. I can see this information being listed in 'console' login. Is it possible to get this via a script?

Thanks

Gertjan

Hi,

Have a close look at that information.

see this :

That's a perfect candidate for what looks like a static text : it's hardcoded somewhere in a script that make the login screen menu.

Knowing that your question is as old as there are console type system access, some oen wrote a tools for it in the sixties, some 60 years ago.
It's called 'grep'.

In the console, use option 8.
Type

grep -R '*** Welcome to' /etc/*

I guess you underand why I choose as a string to be searched for.
Check out the file it found : /etc/rc.banner
That's a small file that collects all the info. You can see how it's done using world most simplest script language : PHP.

trumee

Thanks, I can work with this.

Gertjan

Of course

You already did. When you visit the console, you activated that script.
( maybe without knowing it )