Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Status and Counters Data

Menu Access to the MAC Address Views and Searches

Switch-Level MAC-Address Viewing and Searching. This feature lets you determine which switch port is being used to communicate with a specific device on the network. The listing includes:

The MAC addresses that the switch has learned from network devices attached to the switch

The port on which each MAC address was learned

From the Main Menu, select:

1.Status and Counters

5.Address Table

and Analyzing

Operation

Monitoring

Switch

Figure 10-7. Example of the Address Table (Switch 4000M)

To page through the listing, use Next page and Prev page.

Identifying the Port Connection for a Specific Device. This feature uses a device’s MAC address that you enter to identify the port used by that device.

1.Proceeding from figure 10-10-7, press [S] (for Search), to display the following prompt:

Enter MAC address: _

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HP 2500 Menu Access to the MAC Address Views and Searches, Status and Counters Address Table, Enter MAC address, 10-12