How to identify what device or mac-address is connected to specific port of Meraki Switch?

ryanperez11
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How to identify what device or mac-address is connected to specific port of Meraki Switch?

How to identify what device or mac-address is connected to specific port of Meraki Switch? I could not trace it physically. Is there a way to know what device is connected to the port of the switch? Thanks.

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Brash
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There's a few ways.

 

Under Network-wide -> clients, you can filter for "connected to" in the search box and filter for the switch you're looking for. You can also add "port" as a table column.

 

Another way is to go to the switch itself (Switching -> Switches -> Select the switch), and go to Tools and click "Run" for MAC forwarding table

 

Another way is to go to the switch port (Switching -> Switches -> Select the switch -> select the port), and scroll down to "Current clients" for the port

Arthamon
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Client page would be the fastest and easiest for sure. Just search for your host name or MAC as @Brash styes above

ww
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If you already know the mac address, You can also search on top of the dashboard

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Other_Topics/Dashboard_Search_2.0

alemabrahao
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You can also check the Forwarding Table.

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Monitoring_and_Reporting/Using_the_MS_Live_Tools#Forwarding_Tabl...

I am not a Cisco Meraki employee. My suggestions are based on documentation of Meraki best practices and day-to-day experience.

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GIdenJoe
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Go to the switch, click on the port and look at the clients.
If the client is a bit more silent then you could go to the mac-address table in the tools page and filter on port.

In the extreme case you have very quite clients you could add port-security sticky to that port and just see after a while what mac addresses were added on the port.

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