Trying to map out some wiring that is not labeled nor are there diagrams for anything. Wondered if anyone has ever attempted to use built in commands on procurve and cisco switches combined with MS DNS server to get a relative map of where wires are going. I have a basic seating chart of who is where and what computer names are located in specific areas. What I plan to do unless someone has a better idea:
1.)Using Putty because you can trail commands and println’s till you close the app. This enables me to copy output to text files relatively easily.
2.)Collect ARP-Port-Module-IP information using standard commands in terminal within putty. Saving these output to text to import into excel. This give me the ability to sort by various information.
3.)Export DNS/DHCP to text from windows sever. Import this information into excel as well.
4.)Manipulate duplicate information, sort data into Port–>MAC–>IP–>Machine Name. From this I can compare against a map, and hopefully aid in tasks to map the wiring infrastructure a little bit quicker.
If anyone has had some experience in scenarios such as this and you wrote a script or something similar to help you out let me know. Even if you might have an idea on something that I could add to this I’d appreciate it.
