Owner's Manual

Ports 629
SubComponents
This panel displays a tree of the port and any of its subcomponents.
The following panels are available, but do not appear by default. Click the
+ at the top right of the
details panels to add them.
Learned MAC Address
Port Manager lets you discover any learned MAC addresses on discovered ports. Do this either
manually (click the button at the bottom of the detail panel), or by configuring and executing a
Learned MAC Address Discovery schedule. See Scheduling Learned MAC Discovery, below.
This detail panel does not appear by default. If you elect to display it, after learned MAC address
discovery, any learned MAC addresses for the selected port appear, along with the time and date
they were last observed.
Figure 14-2. Learned MAC Address Detail Panel
It its bottom, this panel has a setting for maximum displayed rows that you may alter to see more
of the learned MAC addresses on the selected port. It also has the following buttons:
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Refresh —This updates the display based on the database. This is useful to update the display
based on a scheduled discovery (see Scheduling Learned MAC Discovery on page 630).
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Collect Learned MAC Addressees from Device —Click this button to query the device, not this
application’s database, for its learned MAC addresses. This is the manual equivalent of what
is described in
Scheduling Learned MAC Discovery on page 630 .
You must collect learned MAC addresses on the connected network devices before you can discover
links between Windows (WMI) or Unix (WBEM) hosts and network devices.
Notes
This panel does not appear by default. When you display it, use the Edit button on this panel to
enter text notes about the selected port.