Have you ever used Netdisco in your networking environment?

Technology Networking and Wifi
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Im curious how many of you have used Netdisco for finding devices on your network quickly. Armed with just a MAC address I can quickly find out which port on which switch a device is connected to. It has tons of great features aside from a Fluke Linksprinter I can search and locate with ease. Have you used this? I’m curious who else uses it.

See the demo at: http://netdisco2-demo.herokuapp.com/

Netdisco is a web-based network management tool designed for network administrators. Data is collected into a PostgreSQL database using SNMP.

Some of the things you can do with Netdisco:

Locate a machine on the network by MAC or IP and show the switch port it lives at
Turn off a switch port, or change the VLAN or PoE status of a port
Inventory your network hardware by model, vendor, software and operating system
Pretty pictures of your network

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I’ve looked into it, but haven’t taken the time to install it anywhere. It
looked a little on the clumsy side for setup, and most environments
already have Observium for SNMP graphic with some support for locating
devices by MAC and seeing the topology graphically.

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This looks interesting, I’ll take a look!