Switch Port Mapping Tool >> Features

Program requirements are here.

About the information retrieved by this tool

1. Automatically discovery of basic switch physical port information. This list shows what you will see for each port:

  • Interface description (ifDescr, ifAlias, CISCO-STACK-MIB::portname or custom)
  • Interface name (ifName)
  • Interface type (ethernet, virtual, loopback etc.)
  • VLAN (depending on the switch we can report multiple VLAN assignments per port)
  • Port status (up or down)
  • Port Speed (10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps etc.)
  • Port Duplex mode (full, half, auto, FDx, HDx etc.)
  • MAC addresses of devices attached to ports
  • IP addresses and hostnames of those devices if available**
  • Attached device interface manufacturer - helps identify devices.
  • Port input and output byte counts
  • Port bandwidth utilization
  • Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) information including port status and root information

2. Basic switch information (in web report or exportable as text):

  • Switch name
  • Description
  • Manufacturer
  • Switch uptime
  • Location field
  • Switch administrator contact name

3. For many switch manufacturers we can retrieve additional product specific information:

  • Switch model number
  • Switch serial number
  • Software version (ie. IOS x.x, etc.)
  • Firmware version
  • Hardware revision
  • Asset number
The additional information retrieved varies depending on manufacturer and model.

**Obtaining IP addresses.
Managed switches that operate at layer 2 keep track of the MAC addresses attached to their ports and report the information in Bridge-Mib and/or qBridge-mib. The IP addresses are not kept in the port forwarding tables. When we retrieve the data, we have to find the IP address that matches the list of device MAC addresses for each port. We do this by searching ARP tables from various devices. We provide two user defined methods of retrieving ARP tables from other SNMP enabled devices such as a server or router. Ping Sweep prefills your local ARP table with local network segment IP/MAC addresses.

How results are presented
Switch Mapping results are presented in a spreadsheet style grid (see the screenshot above right). The columns of the grid can be reordered and made visible or invisible to suit the your needs. The results are searchable using one of the many selections available from the right-click popup menu.

You can export the results as either tab delimited text or XML suitable for opening directly by Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice. The imported spreadsheet retains the look and presentation of the results in the program.		 Screenshot
small picture of switch port mapper
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License Cost
Cost is $199 US for a standalone license.

The cost is $99 US if you are a licensed user of NetScanTools Pro.

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Last modified May 22, 2010