Basically, I am trying to find out which ports on the switches are connected to printers. I use a program called Advanced IP Scanner that returns the MAC address of devices through an IP scan. But sometimes the devices do not reply with their MAC address. Sometimes they do.
For example, I have HP printers that show their mac address with the Advanced IP Scanner, and then some of them do not. One specific instance is that I have two printers reporting as hp LaserJet 4250 (HP-ChaiSOE/1.0), one returns a MAC and one does not (in the IP scan). My thought process is: download the MAC tables from the switches, link those to the MAC addresses found in the IP scan. Hp Compaq Nx6110 Display Drivers For Windows 7. Games Bilyar Di Hp Samsung Apk.
The following guide will demonstrate how to create a new report using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager R3. In this example we will be creating a report which lists all printers (local and networked).
Link the data from the powershell printerserver script above to flesh out any additional info on the printers not found in the IP scan (such as the comments, location, etc). This way I can determine which switch and which port is connected to each printer. I am replacing the blue patch cables for printers with green ones. Hp 3020 Scanner Driver. But as it stands, I have not figured a way to get the MAC address from about half the printers, aside from going out and physically looking at the hardware. If the switch can get the MAC address of every device connected to it, there should be a way for me to ascertain the MAC address of every network device as well. The laptop I an doing the IP scan from is on the same vlan as the printers.