Mactrack and Trunk Ports for VMWare

[bigchoice]

Does anyone know how i can get mactrack to discovery macs on trunk ports which connect to VMWare servers? i saw a post earlier where someone requested it. I am assuming i am not the only person that has this problem as Vmware is very popular.

Thanks
kevin

[TheWitness]

It's something I plan on considering for MacTrack 2.0 that is currently in development.

TheWitness

[pi]

This feature also would be very helpful for us. Is implemented in Mactrack2.0 svn ?

[TheWitness]

This is a pretty tricky fix. I guess we need to find an approach first. Suggestions would be welcome.

[pi]

For our part enough to make certain ports "trunk" so that they acquire the addresses, something like the option of "Ports to Ignore" but backwards

[TheWitness]

Well the issue for me is that I detect them as trunk ports and therefore do not obtain the MAC Addresses. So, we would need either an "Include" ports, as you mentioned, or something like I implemented for Juniper yesterday that identifies the DualMode ports by OID.

Look at the latest commit for the juniper poller that I made over the weekend and see if you can draw a correlation with your equipment. You are my researcher in this case.

TheWitness

[pi]

Sorry for my poor English but I'm not sure I understood.

What is exactly what you asked me to do?

I try using JEX_switch_ports as MAC Address Scanning Function:

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 DEBUG: SQL: UPDATE mac_track_devices SET ports_total='0',device_type_id='54',scan_type = '2',vlans_total='-1',ports_active='0',ports_trunk='0',macs_active='0',snmp_readstring='eepl02',snmp_sysName='BC_DONOSTI_SW02',snmp_sysLocation='',snmp_sysContact='',snmp_sysObjectID='.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.1000',snmp_sysDescr='Cisco IOS Software, CBS31X0 Software (CBS31X0-UNIVERSAL-M), Version 12.2(46)SE, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)  Copyright (c) 1986-2008 by Cisco Systems, Inc.  Compiled Thu 21-Aug-08 12:53 by nachen',snmp_sysUptime='434858910',snmp_status='3',last_runmessage='Data collection completed ok. No active devices on this network device.',last_rundate='2009-11-05 15:35:09',last_runduration='5.9575' WHERE device_id ='46'

This is what you asked?

[TheWitness]

No there is a CLI script that I need you to run in debug mode and send the output back. I think you may need to just spend some time woth the tool for a while so that you can better understand.

TW

[torstentfk]

Hi,

as I know so fare mactrack now does not support MACs on trunks (.1q-ports). You said that version2 will support this, but which sub-version ?

We need this feature to count the servers in our network agains the db of the customer.

Torsten