Chapter 9: Using The Ip/Mac Address Finder; Overview Of The Ip/Mac Address Finder; Ip/Mac Address Finder Functions - Extreme Networks EPICenter Reference Manual

9 Using the IP/MAC Address Finder
This chapter describes how to use the IP/MAC Address Finder applet for:
Creating search requests for locating specific MAC or IP addresses, and determining the devices and
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ports where they are located.
Creating search requests to identify the MAC and IP addresses on specific devices and ports.
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Overview of the IP/MAC Address Finder

Using the IP/MAC Address Finder feature you can specify a set of Media Access Control (MAC) or
Internet Protocol (IP) network addresses, and a set of network devices to query for those addresses. The
applet returns a list of the devices and ports associated with those addresses. You can also specify a set
of devices and ports, and search for all MAC and IP addresses that appear on those devices and ports.
The Search Tool lets you configure and start a search task, view the status of the task, view the task
results, and export the results either to your local system or to the EPICenter server system. The task
specification and results are kept in the task list until you delete them, or until you end your EPICenter
client session by logging out.
The IP/MAC Address Finder supports two types of searches: a Database search, that looks for a MAC
or IP address among edge port information maintained in the EPICenter database, and a Network
search, that searches switches on the network for the specified MAC or IP addresses.
If you have configured EPICenter to do MAC polling, EPICenter maintains in its own database the
information it learns about edge ports from the switches it polls. (See
EPICenter" for information on setting MAC Poller properties to enable MAC polling). In this case, the
IP/MAC Address Finder can search for addresses within the database rather than searching over the
network. If you do not have MAC polling enabled, the IP/MAC Address Finder will always do a
network search.
In a network search the IP/MAC Address Finder searches the IP Address Translation Table (the
) in each device agent for IP addresses, and the Forwarding Database (FDB) for
ipNetToMediaTable
MAC addresses of the switches in your search domain to find address information. If you specify a
search for a specific IP address, the IP/MAC Address Finder will attempt to ping that address from the
switches you have included in the search domain.

IP/MAC Address Finder Functions

The IP/MAC Address Finder feature does not provide any feature-specific menus. The four standard
EPICenter menus are available (EPICenter, Display, Tools and Help). However, the functions on the
Display and Tools menus are not available. Right-click pop-up menus are also not available in this
feature.
For information on the standard EPICenter menu functions, see
EPICenter Reference Guide
Chapter 14 "Administering
"EPICenter Menus" on page 32.
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