Hi all,
I’m a network administrator novice just finished school and started at my first job 🙂 Please don?t flame me if I’m asking a very stupid/simple question… thx.
I trying to figure out which network interfaces are used on the switches and which ones aren’t. I know there wall-outlets patched that are no longer in use. (I know this because nobody took care of the network before I came… only ad hoc actions). My idea is to measure/log traffic on each interface of the switch for a week and if there is no activity for a week, remove the patch. Which application can I best use for this situation… or are there better ways to solve this problem.
I’m also considering writing a python script to poll the switches via snmp…
All advice, ideas and suggestions are welcome.