¶ Introduction
blësk Switch Port Manager (SPM) can be used to locate the switch port of an end-user system by IP or MAC address. It helps to identify the switch port on which a device is connected, eliminating the task of manually tracing network cables. The network is inventoried by both the device model and operating system (such as IOS).
Some of the things you can do with blësk SPM:
- Locate a machine on the network by MAC, IP or SSID and show the switch port it lives at
- Turn off a switch port, or change the VLAN or PoE status of a port
- Inventory your network hardware by model, vendor, software and operating system
- Keep historic data of system IPs and locations
- Search and retrieve data via the API
See the Quick Start guide to get up and running quickly with SPM.
This functionality requires that SPM is able to obtain the MAC address <> IP address data from your network. Normally this is obtained by polling your router for arp cache information with the use of the SNMP protocol.