Hi Kevin, Take a look at Cisco Info Center, it can do exactly what you are trying to accomplish using CIC/USMs (Usage Service Monitors)
Clayton Dukes CCNA, CCDA, CCDP, CCNP, NCC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Wigle" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:55 PM Subject: Identifying Hosts [7:45795] > Dear Group, > > A large organization wants to begin a "user pay" cost recovery accounting > method in an attempt to get proper funding for services the central IT > service support provider has delivered "free" for a long time. > > They would like to charge a "per port" fee which includes everything they > provide rolled up. > > One of the interesting questions is how to identify that a host belongs to a > certain level 1 organization. > > With proper naming standards something like: > > Collect a list of host names/MACs. Such info can be easily collected with > various tools. > > Port security would be turned on with a address list of 1 configured. > > Then permanent MAC addresses could be collected from the access switches. > > Then a correlation made....................... > > A bit labour intensive - at least at first. > > Is there a product that can relate host name to Catalyst port that would > make this idea easier? > > Or other ideas?? > > Kevin Wigle Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=45803&t=45795 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
