Search for MAC address

[harringg]

I'm using some Cisco CLI commands to get the MAC addresses on specific ports, which then allows me to add a custom field in LS v5 to enter switch port number and patch panel number. Which puts my Access Database I've built for tracking that info to shame, by having that data linked to inventory already in LS.

When searching in the Search... toolbar, I can find PC's by entering the MAC address, 00:00...:01, but it doesn't grab the MAC address of already detected printers. Now that I've discovered that "bug", when I have a missing MAC address that's on the Cisco query, I go to my printer list in LS and resolve (find) the MAC addresses manually.

Feature request is to make the MacAddress field (Network interfaces) for printers, and other devices that have that field scanned, searchable like the PC's

[harringg]

Figured out I needed to assign the proper SNMP credentials.

Did that, and rescanned those devices and now see what you are referring too.

[harringg]

To clarify, I'm telneting into switch1, viewing the MAC address that has accessed a given port, MAC xyz, port 7, MAC abc, port 12, etc..

I then have a database that says Patchpanel 28 goes to room 150, which is connected to switch1, port 7, so I find MAC xyz in LS, edit the resulting found PC, add Room 150 in Location field, PP 28 in a custom field, add SW1-7 in another custom field.

Are you saying that LS ties switch name and switch port ID to a scanned device? Where is that information located? Clearly. It has no way of knowing which PP it's physically connected to however, so that requires a custom field entry.

Regardless, searching for a known MAC address of a printer in the Search... box will not return a result even though there is an associated MAC address in the LS database for the given printer.

[Hemoco]

harringg wrote:
I'm using some Cisco CLI commands to get the MAC addresses on specific ports, which then allows me to add a custom field in LS v5 to enter switch port number and patch panel number. Which puts my Access Database I've built for tracking that info to shame, by having that data linked to inventory already in LS.

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