Catalyst 3560 IP Address

[CElliott]

We have misplaced our documentation on our Cisco 3560 Catalyst Switch and are trying to connect to it through newly installed Cisco Network Assistant software. Is there any discovery software that is known of that will scan a network to find the switch since we do not know the IP Address or do we have to reconfigure the switch?

Thanks in advance for any information.

Craig

 

[KiscoKid]

Well feasibly you could spend some time trying to find out which vendor MAC Cisco typically uses for their 3500's. Cisco have many Vendor MAC's so it may not be the first one you find.

Once you know the Vendor MAC, you can then fire off a network scanner (like Angry IP Scanner -

http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/)

and ask it to report back all the MAC's it finds. You'd then have to inspect each MAC to see which one of them belong to Cisco.

However.. with all that said.. it would be a lot quicker to just go up to the thing and perform a password recovery. The following URL explains how to do it

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/...on_guide_chapter09186a00801f0a57.html#1021182

 

[vipergg]

If you have any old cisco switch laying around around you could plug it into the 3560 then do a show cdp neighbor detail and that will give you the address , most people don't shut cdp off .