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Using the IP/MAC Address Finder
This chapter describes how to use the IP/MAC Address Finder applet for:
●
Creating search requests for locating specific MAC or IP addresses, and determining the devices and
ports where they are located.
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Creating search requests to identify the MAC and IP addresses on specific devices and ports.
Overview of the IP/MAC Address Finder
Using the IP/MAC Address Finder feature you can specify a set of Media Access Control (MAC) or
Internet Protocol (IP) network addresses, and a set of network devices to query for those addresses. The
applet returns a list of the devices and ports associated with those addresses. You can also specify a set
of devices and ports, and search for all MAC and IP addresses that appear on those devices and ports.
The Search Tool lets you configure and start a search task, view the status of the task, view the task
results, and export the results either to your local system or to the EPICenter server system. The task
specification and results are kept in the task list until you delete them, or until you end your EPICenter
client session by logging out.
The IP/MAC Address Finder supports two types of searches: a Database search, that looks for a MAC
or IP address among edge port information maintained in the EPICenter database, and a Network
search, that searches switches on the network for the specified MAC or IP addresses.
If you have configured EPICenter to do MAC polling, EPICenter maintains in its own database the
information it learns about edge ports from the switches it polls. (See
Chapter 14
“Administering
EPICenter”
for information on setting MAC Poller properties to enable MAC polling). In this case, the
IP/MAC Address Finder can search for addresses within the database rather than searching over the
network. If you do not have MAC polling enabled, the IP/MAC Address Finder will always do a
network search.
In a network search the IP/MAC Address Finder searches the IP Address Translation Table (the
ipNetToMediaTable
) in each device agent for IP addresses, and the Forwarding Database (FDB) for
MAC addresses of the switches in your search domain to find address information. If you specify a
search for a specific IP address, the IP/MAC Address Finder will attempt to ping that address from the
switches you have included in the search domain.
IP/MAC Address Finder Functions
The IP/MAC Address Finder feature does not provide any feature-specific menus. The four standard
EPICenter menus are available (
EPICenter
,
Display
,
Tools
and
Help
). However, the functions on the
Display and Tools menus are not available. Right-click pop-up menus are also not available in this
feature.
For information on the standard EPICenter menu functions, see
“EPICenter Menus” on page 32
.
Summary of Contents for EPICenter 6.0
Page 14: ...EPICenter Reference Guide 14 ...
Page 18: ...Preface EPICenter Reference Guide 18 ...
Page 19: ...1 EPICenter Basic Features ...
Page 20: ......
Page 24: ...EPICenter Overview EPICenter Reference Guide 24 ...
Page 44: ...Getting Started with EPICenter EPICenter Reference Guide 44 ...
Page 100: ...The Inventory Manager EPICenter Reference Guide 100 ...
Page 140: ...The EPICenter Alarm System EPICenter Reference Guide 140 ...
Page 172: ...Configuration Manager EPICenter Reference Guide 172 ...
Page 196: ...The Firmware Manager EPICenter Reference Guide 196 ...
Page 220: ...The Interactive Telnet Feature EPICenter Reference Guide 220 ...
Page 250: ...The Grouping Manager EPICenter Reference Guide 250 ...
Page 276: ...Real Time Statistics EPICenter Reference Guide 276 ...
Page 342: ...Using the VLAN Manager EPICenter Reference Guide 342 ...
Page 348: ...The ESRP Monitor EPICenter Reference Guide 348 ...
Page 446: ...EPICenter Reports EPICenter Reference Guide 446 ...
Page 447: ...2 Advanced Upgrade Features ...
Page 448: ......
Page 480: ...EAPS Protocol Monitoring and Verification EPICenter Reference Guide 480 ...
Page 508: ...Using the Policy Manager EPICenter Reference Guide 508 ...
Page 525: ...3 Appendices ...
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Page 542: ...EPICenter Backup EPICenter Reference Guide 542 ...
Page 564: ...Voice over IP Manager EPICenter Reference Guide 564 ...
Page 580: ...EPICenter Reference Guide 580 ...