Hi, I thought I may toss in my 2 cents. If the phones are set to DHCP, would it be worth your time to set DHCP reservations in your DHCP server?
On a Windows DHCP server, navigate to Address Leases, right click on each phone and Add to Reservations. /Nick "InterMapper Discussion" <[email protected]> writes: >Salut Mike, > >I you have some sort of server/secure workstation running at each >location, adding the dhcp snooping script "load" on one of them would >be >easy, sending the result back to your InterMapper server for the >actual >probing. > >If you know the MAC addresses, you could do an ARP lookup but, like >our >dhcp trick, you'd need to run it at each location. > >Again, I have no knowledge of the Cisco way of doing things but... >Mitel >IP phones log-in their primary IP PBX so I could get the MAC/IP >addresses from the PBX but it would be a couple order of magnitude >harder than with dhcp and I would have to do it for each PBX. > > >Le 11-01-27 10:53, MDBeckett a écrit : >> Salut Martin! >> >> Thanks for the idea. With our phone system spread out over 50 sites, >that'd be a little more involved a solution than I'd like, but it's a >much better option than nothing! >> >> I take it there's no way to monitor MAC address presence on the >network without SNMP? Ideally we'd just do that, but Cisco phones >don't support SNMP... and there might be too much overhead in that >approach in any case. >> >> Many thanks, >> Mike Beckett >> >> >> -------------------- m2f -------------------- >> >> Read this topic online here: >> http://forums.dartware.com/viewtopic.php?p=3111#3111 >> >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________ >> List archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ >> To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected] >> >> > >-- >_____________________________________________________________________ > Martin Durand, coordonnateur > Service de l'infrastructure technologique > Cégep de Sainte-Foy http://www.cegep-ste-foy.qc.ca > 2410, chemin Sainte-Foy Voix : +1-418-659-6600 #4275 > Québec, QC, Canada, G1V 1T3 Fax : +1-418-659-4563 > >____________________________________________________________________ >List archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ >To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected] > > Thanks Nick Rigas 204-837-5886 x 222 [email protected] Computer Dept. Save Tree's, Please don't print this email if you don't need to! "Arguing about climate change...it is like driving a car at 100 km/h into a brick wall and arguing about where to sit." Dr. David Suzuki ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected]
