[Fusioninventory-user] Network port discovery and their mapping to Computers

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Hi David,

2016.12.05 18:59 időpontban David DURIEUX ezt írta:
> Le Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:27:46 +1030
> mailinglist at modernbiztonsag.org a écrit:
> 
>> Hi,
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> I am having trouble getting the discovered network ports automatically
>> connected to the appropriate Computers they are related to.
>> 
>> Here is the scenario. I have a small office network with 5 managed
>> switches (Dell PowerConnect 5548 and Networking N2048, Cisco  SG200).
>> I _think_ I have properly conifgured LLDP on the uplink ports
>> advertising System Name an System Capabilities. The switches seem to
>> discover and properly list their neighbours.
>> 
>> FusionInventory is able to discover the switches and their interfaces,
>> but the machines registered by the FusionInventory Agents are randomly
>> mapped to ports all over the place. There are "hubs" connected to
>> switches' management interfaces and probably half of the machines are
>> connected to these hubs. The other half of the machines are appearing
>> on aggregated or physical uplink ports. Only a few machines are mapped
>> to the physical port they are connected to.
>> At first I thought the problem might be caused by reused LAG IDs, but
>> after I switched to unique IDs for the whole network nothing has
>> changed. I am not experienced with networking beyond this simple
>> setup, so the trick may be with LLPD or how SNMP is configured.
>> 
>> I would like to humbly ask the community's help on this issue since
>> you probably have way more experience in this. I am happy to provide
>> more information, just let me know whay you need.
> 
> Check your switches works in LLDP, like run the command to see the
> neighbour on each switch.

If the uplink ports should show the neighbouring switches then LLDP is 
working on each of the switches. Do I have to enable it on every port or 
just the uplink ones?

Regards,
Mate

> 
> David
> ++
> 
>> GLPI version: 9.1.1
>> FusionInventory version: 9.1+1.0
>> Firmwares:
>> Cisco SG200: 1.3.7.18
>> Dell PowerConnect 5548: 4.1.0.19
>> Dell Networking N2048: 6.3.0.9
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Mate
>> 
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