[CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

Tue Apr 21 16:47:27 UTC 2009
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

Quoting Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com>:

> I have a Cisco 6509 switch that I'm monitoring with SNMP from a
> CentOS5 machine.  SNMP polls are the only access I have to this
> device, we are not allowed to log on via telnet.
>
> How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is
> connected to?  I was hoping that this is somehow possible using the
> mac address and the data gathered from snmpwalk/snmpget requests but
> I'm not having much luck.  How would you tackle this problem?

This might help:

<http://www.linuxdynasty.org/howto-find-the-port-on-a-switch-that-a-host-belongs-to-the-easy-way-part-1.html>