Zabbix to get MAC address tables from switches

[jodygreen]

Hi,
I'm trying to find a way to get the MAC address tables from our switch estate. The reason that we need to do this is so that we can track where a device is/has been. Has anyone else done this? I have found this from the Cisco site which is a little helpful but we use Extreme and HP switches (approx 1000).

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/simple-network-management-protocol-snmp/13492-cam-snmp.html

[netstat]

Did you ever get an answer to this question? I just thought about the same desire and looked up on how to do it and came across this post.

[Mike2K]

Hi,
I'm trying to find a way to get the MAC address tables from our switch estate. The reason that we need to do this is so that we can track where a device is/has been. Has anyone else done this? I have found this from the Cisco site which is a little helpful but we use Extreme and HP switches (approx 1000).

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/suppor...-cam-snmp.html

This is pretty difficult because of the way cisco stores and represent the MAC address table. I have no idea how Extreme and HP do that.

Somehow I think this goal would be best accomplished with Elastic, shipping the SNMP data via logstash, do a search on the MAC address and you'll get all the ports the address was seen on.