Switch Port Mapping Software

[Do Kieu]

Networkswitch port mapper tool helps network engineers identify the switch port to which a device is connected and thus eliminates the need of manually tracing the network cables. The switch port management tool discovers the devices plugged into each port of a specified switch.

The Switch Port Mapper utility of OpUtils software discovers the devices plugged into each port of a specified switch with its port scanner capability. The tool is useful for system and network engineers to gain visibility into the IP, MAC, status and availability of ports. Since this is a real-time discovery you can also view the operational status and port speed of each port. The Network Switch Port Management mainly consists of features such as

The Switch port management tool provides an end-to-end mapping by advanced port scanning with an option to include mapping of physical ports to switch ports. The administrator can provide the mapping of the physical ports and switch ports in a CSV file, which can be imported to the Switch Port Mapper results. This does not need any change as long as there is no change in the physical mapping. The network switch port management tool automatically retrieves the VLAN details, Virtual IP Addresses of a device, and detects all the devices connected to a port. The Switch Port Mapper also allows the administrators to add their own columns to store user-defined values. Columns can be created both at the switch-level and at the Switch Details level. Switch port management software uses a Multi-vendor switch support like CISCO, HP, 3com, Nortel,etc. Switch port mapping displays all the MAC addresses connected to the port like computers, IP phones ., etc and has ability to Add Custom Fields on the Fly to Store User-defined Values.

Role based administration in network switch port management software helps administrators to exercise more control by creating users with Administrator or Technician Roles. While users in Administrator Role will have complete access, users in Technician Role will only have read-only access.

Adding switches to the switch port mapping tool of the switch port management software can be either manual or by importing the Switch inputs from a CSV file. The CSV file should contain the Switch Name / IP Address, Switch Community, Router Name / IP Address, and Router Community as comma separated values. Once the switches are added in the switch port mapper software, they are automatically mapped in the background. Optionally, the administrators can also specify the associated subnets to sweep prior to scanning of a switch. The switch port management tool will make the switch learn all the MAC addresses of the connected devices, which will be retrieved and shown in the results.

Switch port Mapper software allows to create different groups based on the location or building. The Switches can seamlessly be moved within groups anytime in switch port management software. Switches in different groups can be scheduled to run at different times. Whenever a switch is mapped, the results are automatically published as a CSV file that can directly be opened in Microsoft Excel. In the Switch port management software, the history can also be viewed from the OpUtils user interface. This helps administrators to get the details of the devices that are connected to a port in the given period and vice versa. It maps the details stored in the database and provides the mapping history. Switch port mapping also maps multiple switches simultaneously and schedule the scanning of switches such that switches in different groups can be scheduled separately.

When it comes to managing the switch ports, auditing is utmost important to know who did what and when. Switch Port Mapper logs all the events performed using the tool with the name of the OpUtils User and the date and time of the event. This helps administrators to track and audit the changes made using Switch Port Mapper. The administrators will also be able to track the device that was previously connected to a switch port from the previous scan results that are saved in the history. Switch port mapping tool audits and tracks the changes made to the Switch Port Mapper tool. It views the previous scan results from history.

The Switch Port Mapper software can map multiple switches simultaneously. The administrators in switch port management tool can add all the switches in their network and map them all at once. This gives a complete port status of each of the switches. To locate where a specific device is connected, the administrators can simply search using the MAC, IP Address, DNS Name, or the Location of the device.

OpUtils, based on the Switch Port Mapper software results, provides the Port Availability Report of the network. Switch port mapper software maintains a policy to declare non-responding ports as available ports. Ports that are not active beyond 10 days are shown as available ports. This can also be configured to a desired value. The Port Availability Reports of OpUtils include: Available Ports, Used Ports, and Stacked Ports. It auto-publish the results to a CSV/ XLS. In addition to the Port Availability Reports, it also provides various reports on port usage, speed and type:

In addition to mapping switch ports to devices, OpUtils allows administrators to block or unblock a switch port from within this tool. A switch port can be made administratively up or down through SNMP using the SNMP write community string of a switch. This is very useful to block the unwanted traffic from a particular port due to a virus attack or hacking.

Do you have a rack of ethernet network switches with cables leading to who knows where?

Do you need to discover and identify the network devices attached to your switches?

Do you need a single app to map port usage on several different brands of switches?

Our Switch Port Mapper can discover and show you the MAC addresses and optionally IPv4 addresses of devices attached to the physical ports of your switches. Supply the SNMP access credentials for each switch and map them manually or as a list of switches.

Lansweeper helps IT professionals discover and map not only switches and their ports but all the devices that are connected to every switch port as well. For every connected port, the switch port mapper function lists the MAC address, IP address, and host names of the computers and devices associated with that port. Considering Lansweeper retrieves data using SNMP, all major manufacturers using SNMP are supported, including Cisco and Palo Alto Switches. Lansweeper is your dedicated network mapper, indispensable for IP address and switch port management.

Keeping an oversight of the switches on your network is key for a system administrator. A network switch search helps you to gather network switch information, crucial for drawing up a clear overview of your (V)LAN and creating a comprehensible network map. Lansweeper has an integrated switch port mapper function that can provide quick switch port overviews. With these overviews, you can more easily handle IT-related tasks such as license management, hardware maintenance, and machine or system troubleshooting.

Off the shelf, Lansweeper already scans a lot of information with a broad one-size fits all discovery of your network, using the built-in reports. Nevertheless, some device types have very specific information that you will want to include in a customized report. That is exactly what custom OID scanning enables you to do. Tell Lansweeper what you want to know, and it will go get it on every SNMP-enabled device. This increased flexibility allows you to scan even deeper. Moreover, when selecting your OID scanning target, you can import MIB files from the MIB library. This allows you to quickly aim for very detailed data. The MIB library also contains user-made MIB files for you to discover.

The SoftPerfect Switch Port Mapper tool works with managed network switches and reports what is connected to switch ports, and which ports are not connected. For every connected port, the port mapper lists the MAC address, IP address and host names of the computers associated with that port.

Switch Miner is a free lightweight open source utility for Windows that acts as a switch port mapper/switch port discovery tool. It helps network engineers discover the devices that are connected to the all the ports of a switch. It will even discover neighboring switches via CDP and scan them also. Using SNMP it scans switches and creates excel .xlsx or .csv files.

After upgrading my Engineering toolset from ver 8 to ver 9, the Switch Port Mapper tool appears not to be working correctly. I can get the Mac addresses on all the ports fine but the IP address fields and the DNS name fields are blank. I have gone through the settings and made sure that they were all selected correctly but still nothing shows. This was all working on ver 8 but after the upgrade something seems to be missing. Any direction on this would be appreciated.

I am new to the SolarWinds products. In my situation I started off with SolarWinds Engineering Toolset 9.0.1. I'm mapping mainly to two Cisco 6509's running SUP 720-3b. I cannot get the Switch Port Mapper to show IP Address and DNS/NB Name information. Oddly, the IP Address and DNX/NB Name information WILL show up in the IP Address Management tool.

We are a solid Cisco shop running 6509, 2950, 2970, 4500's et al and my only guess on this is that the new Solarwinds ver 9.0.1 didn't get all the Cisco MIB's right. It would appear that Solarwinds isn't handling the MIBs correctly or is possibly miscompiling them. We also had problems with the IP Address Management tool showing IP address available when in fact they were being used. That issue was patched and now appears to be working but the Switch Port Mapper issue has not been resolved. This really is too bad because the Switch Port Mapping has been a nice diagnostic tool.

I am also having a problem with the port mapper and a pair of Cisco 6513 switches. I do not get any information displayed in the IP address or the DNS entries. When it is first scanning the ports, the ip addresses get scrolled through in the pop up box, but then do not display properly on the port mapper.

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