I'd Like to appologize to Luke, and to the group for the arrogant, annoing
response i just sent...
Sorry luke, I should have said that, it was completely unnecessary and and
uncalled for, and sorry, group, that kind of crud should not be posted.
Sincerely, Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Slow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FW: how to track down unused ports on a switch [7:9213]
UH, ARE YOU JOKING!?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
...Brute force? 30 days? try not to be an unrealistic brainless peckerhead.
It's unbecoming of you.
Try "show port status"
once during the day, once at lunch, once at 5 o clock.
OR.
pull out the cables with no blinky lights at the end during peak usage.
people who were out that day will eventually bitch and get their stuff fixed
in like ten seconds, and that's that.
or you could be really elite, and do it the proper way, like me =)
use SNMP it's the best for you here.
you dont need to script diddly.
exec this on a unix box.
snmptable interfaces.ifTable
that is going to print out ALL of your interfaces. AND their opstatus. AND
the LAST TIME THEY CHANGED STATUS. And, that, my friend, is the end of your
problem =P
Peter Slow, CCNP Voice Specialist
Network Engineer
Planetary Networks
535 West 34th. Street
New York, New York
10001
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-----Original Message-----
From: Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how to track down unused ports on a switch [7:9213]
Brute force method:
logon switch
enable
clear counters
yes
day 30
show mac
look for any rcv and xmit that are all zero, unused port
remove patch cable from unused ports
clear counters and wait until day 30
Automated method:
snmp and script search
""Hennen, David"" wrote in message
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> Does anyone have or know of a tool that will track unused ports on a
switch
> over time. My employer has a couple of thousand switch ports where I work
> and we have a pretty mobile work force, ie people switch cubes a lot it
> seems.
>
> Sometimes we don't find out about a move until after when someone calls to
> get two network connections in their new cube. We typically accomodate
them
> by adding new patch cables but it's difficult to track down their old
> connections and pull them out, so we end up using a lot of patch cables.
>
> If there was a way to find out all the ports on a switch that haven't been
> active for the last month that would be helpful. I thought about trying
to
> use snmp and write some type of list out to excel but this isn't my forte'
> and hopefully someone else has a better solution
>
> Thanks if you can help,
> Dave H
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