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Apr 11, 2016 - Sure you can, the feature has been around since HP Intelligent Management Centre 5.1 and to find it you simply need to go to; Resources Terminal Access Real-Time Location. You then just need to type in either an IP Address or MAC Address of the device and click OK. Mar 11, 2013 - Hello I have IMC standard and am trying to search by MAC address on the main page using the advanced devices search but unable to find.
Use the ipconfig command to find the Internet Protocol and Media Access Control addresses of a computer running Microsoft Windows 10 or previous versions.
Many Windows PCs include more than one network adapter (such as separate adapters for Ethernet and Wi-Fi support) and hence can report several active IP or MAC addresses.
The ipconfig Command
Open a shell window by right-clicking on the Start menu and selecting Windows PowerShell. In older versions of Windows, open the Command Prompt. Execute the command:
to run ipconfig for all network adapters on your computer.
The ipconfig utility displays address information for all active network adapters. You'll see the results broken into several categories. The first outlines the configuration of the IP protocol on the computer. After that, each networking device appears in a sequence, offering a wealth of diagnostic information including the MAC address (listed as physical address and both the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Virtual adapters like those used with virtual private networks generally show a private IP address rather than an actual internet address. Virtual adapters also possess software-emulated MAC addresses and not the actual physical address of the network interface card.
We seem to have a problem with rogue devices on our network. From DHCP (on Win2003), I can see names of devices that are clearly not ours. From the name, I suspect it's a wireless AP (WGR614 looks like a Netgear to me). I can't ping it now, but I want to A.) be certain it's gone, and B.) stop it from coming back.
My initial theory is to block the MAC address at the switch. I'd also like to find which port the MAC address was connected to so I can find the location it was connected.
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We have different flavors of HP ProCurve switches, with our primary switch a 4200. How would I go about doing this as a one-off task? I'm not a network admin really, so please be gentle.
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I can't tell you a thing about 'blocking' or access-control-list functionality in HP Procurve switches. In general, 'blocking' unwanted devices isn't a good thing. Stopping the wanted devices from getting on your network in the first place is a better idea.
To find the MAC address of an offending device, from a computer on the same subnet as that device, PING the device and then do an 'arp -a' from a command prompt. You should get back something like this (on Windows):
The MAC address is listed under the 'physical address' column.
Hopefully the ProCurve switches have some functionality to allow you search the MAC address database on the switch for a given address. Do that, and the switch will tell you which port it is 'seeing' that MAC address attached to.
On a Cisco switch (or a 'Cisco-workalike' switch), you'd do:
Where the x's are the MAC address (removing the '-' between the digits that Windows reports and placing '.' between each group of 4 digits).
Track down what's plugged into that port. If it's another switch, repeat the process on the other switch. If you end up with a wireless access point think about using (better) encryption to keep unauthorized parties off your network.
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Do you know how to get to the command line interface? The command
show mac-address
will show you all the MAC addresses the switch has detected.
You can get all the manuals for the 4200 here:
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