XCA REST BssidLister (Go)

BssidLister retrieves the list of Access Points and associated (B)SSIDs from ExtremeCloud Appliance (XCA) via the provided REST API and prints CSV to stdout.

It started as a rewrite of the Python script provided by GTAC, but the output of BssidLister includes way more details than the GTAC script by now.

Branches

This project uses two defined branches:

• master is the primary development branch. Code within master may be broken at any time.
• stable is reserved for code that compiles without errors and is tested. Track stable if you just want to use the software.

Other branches, for example for developing specific features, may be created and deleted at any time.

Dependencies

This tool uses Go modules to handle dependencies.

Running / Compiling

Use go run ./... to run the tool directly or go build -o BssidLister ./... to compile a binary. Prebuilt binaries may be available as artifacts from the GitLab CI/CD pipeline for tagged releases.

Tested with go1.16.

Usage

BssidLister -h:

Available options:
  -host string
    	XCA Hostname / IP
  -port uint
    	HTTP port where XCA is listening (default 5825)
  -secret string
    	Client Secret for authentication
  -timeout uint
    	Timeout for HTTP(S) connections (default 5)
  -userid string
    	Client ID for authentication
  -version
    	Print version information and exit

All options that take a value can be set via environment variables:
  XCAHOST           -->  -host
  XCAPORT           -->  -port
  XCATIMEOUT        -->  -timeout
  XCAUSERID         -->  -userid
  XCASECRET         -->  -secret

Environment variables can also be configured via a file called .xcaenv,
located in the current directory or in the home directory of the current
user.

Authentication

BssidLister uses the OAuth authentication model used by XCA's API. Authentication is possible via username/password or via API Client credentials.

Output

BssidLister prints CSV data to stdout when no errors occur. Any exit code that is not 0 indicates an error of some sort.

The CSV output will contain the following pieces of information per SSID:

1. serial: AP serial number
2. model: AP hardware type
3. ip: AP IP address
4. hostname: AP hostname
5. radio: Radio index
6. band: Wireless band
7. bssid: Service BSSID
8. ssid: Service SSID
9. disabled: Indictator whether the radio is active (false) or not (true)

A header is included in the first line of the output.

Source

The original project is hosted at GitLab, with a copy over at GitHub for the folks over there.