Francois,

I've put the switch in testing mode, restarted the packetfence service and
I'm not getting the switch/port information to show up in Node View. Any
tips that you can pass on would be greatly appreciated. I'm running the
latest version of packetfence through a yum update.

Thanks,

Josh

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Francois Gaudreault
<[email protected]>wrote:

> **
> Hi,
>
> You can simply put the switch into testing mode (instead of production
> mode).  You should be able to get the information, but PF won't do anything.
>
>
> On 11-08-05 7:05 PM, packet fence wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I want to
> deploy packetfence and take full advantage of its reporting capabilities
> without leveraging the interactive NAC capability.
>
> To be more specific, I'm looking for a way that the switch and port info
> for a node gets updated in the node view, but I don't want any VLAN changes
> to occur. I believe this would have to do with the switch mode. However the
> only mode that I can get to populate the switch/port information is by
> putting the switch in production. I've then configured the switch with an
> incorrect write SNMP community. This is how I've been able to get the
> switch/port information without changing the VLAN, but it isn't very
> efficient. Anyone have another idea, that might streamline communications
> between packetfence and the switch?
>
> The purpose behind this is to audit what's (DHCP fingerprinting / Hostname
> / MAC address) coming on the network and where (Switch / port) without any
> active changes or active change attempts.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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