Prime Infrastructure 2.2 - Wired Clients and Trunk Ports

[Scott Plank]

We have our VMWare ESX hosts connected to our server access switches via trunk ports. Prime doesn't seem to track clients on trunk ports (to avoid showing clients on uplink ports between switches, I'm sure). Since these are not switch-to-switch connections, is there a way to enable Prime to track wired clients on these specific trunk ports so we have MAC/IP client info in Prime for our virtual environment?

[Ashok Kumar · Accepted solution]

Hi,

PI discards all the MAC table entries that are on trunk ports for a switch. This enhancement was added from PI 2.1 & later.

- Ashok

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[Scott Plank]

Well, that's disappointing, but understandable. It would be nice if we had the option of being able to choose ports to exclude from that blanket discard policy for trunk ports, to account for situations like this.

[Ashok Kumar]

Hi,

Well! I understand & that why this functionality was added, see if you can go for upgrade to PI 2.1 or latest one PI 2.2.1

- Ashok

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[Scott Plank]

Ashok -

We have PI 2.2 - maintenance release 2.2.1.