Good Show old man!
Mike W.
"Peter Slow" wrote in message
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> 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
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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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