We are using both Whatsup and Solar Winds (Engineers Edition). Also using Big Brother and MRTG on the UNIX side. I think that is a very good spread for following the "Best of Breed" approach. There is some overlap, but each product has a strength where the others are not so strong, they are affordable, and they don't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to install and support. My experience with the "UBER network management" products has not been so happy.
Jim Reeves, LCRA >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/08 8:50 AM >>> Any tool that can talk SNMP can do this, even though it may not be built into the product (it's not built into WUG). We use Switch Port Mapper, which is part of a suite of tools from SolarWinds (www.solarwinds.net). This will also show multiple MACs per port if a hub is connected to the switch port. If you're looking at a layer 2 switch, you'll also need some way to map MACs to IPs since the switch doesn't know this information. SPM accomplishes this by allowing you to reference a router so that MAC to IP resolutions can be performed through its ARP table. Matt _____ From: Kevin F. McCraw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Map Switch MAC Table Jeff What software have you found that can do this? Thanks Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Franklin Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Map Switch MAC Table Jeff, When you say you want to know others, are you presently doing this? If so, I would like to talk. -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 12/5/2003 5:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Map Switch MAC Table I want to know others that use WUG use to map what MAC addresses are connected to what switch ports and what their IP is. I have found a number of products out there that will do this. But they all want to do all of the network monitoring also. I like WUG for what it does. I really don't want to replace it or add the same functionality in a new product just to sit there. Any input on this will be really appreciated. Thank You Jeff Cook Network Administrator Whatcom Educational Credit Union Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html <http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html> to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
