"Steven Satelle (Service Desk)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Its not the user I want to know it is the script, if the script > knows the switch has changed, then it knows the pc has moved, so it > asked the user for his new location. then It emails it to us That is kind of a clunky design. You would be better off creating a list mapping switch ports to network jacks, another list mapping network jacks to office locations, and a third list mapping MAC addresses to machines. (You should have such maps anyway; they are very useful for troubleshooting network problems.) Then you can query each of your switches' FDBs (dot1dTpFdbTable) periodically. Just dump them all to a file and watch for changes. This will let you detect when a machine moves without bugging the owner. And it is centralized, and it works regardless of the user's OS, and it detects ALL network devices including the ones you were not expecting. The FDB is not persistent; entries will time out if a machine is inactive. So you will want to ignore it when a MAC simply disappears or reappears, while still noticing new MACs appearing or old ones moving around. But this is not rocket science. - Pat _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
