Anyone out there tracking these devices? I have been tracking them via ICMP but the company has requested more information from them. Wanted to get some thoughts from the community one this one.
You can get some interesting information from them, if your Communications Platforms staff allows you snmp access into them. Obviously snmp-v3 is the way to go.
At a minimum you can discover them using the CDP Neighbor solution on every switch, and you can certainly monitor all the switchports to which they connect.
Stats on those ports may seem skewed until you remember that the phones have a mini-switch within them, to which PC's may be attached. Heaven forbid someone connects another switch to the phone's data port, and then plugs in a bunch of PC's to that switch. ISE or Port-Security should shut it down, if you have either properly deployed. Our policy forbids mini-switches on the network (outside of the built-in ones on phones).
I see all the LLDP and CDP information for the VoIP phones on my network; what other information are you looking for about them? Maybe something you can leverage with VNQM?
rschroeder, you mentioned "Communications Platforms staff allows you snmp access into them".
That is going to be a fun and very short conversation.
Well you said the company wants it, so that gives you ammo to get you the access to them to get the information the company is looking for. I would imagine you can pull most of the data through some MIB's via SNMP. Not really sure what Cisco has out there for that though. If it is anything nearly as detailed as what you can get from their switches and stuff, you might be surprised at what you can pull.
I opened a case for this (I need the MAC addresses), I was told to configure SNMP on each haha! Imagine if I had a couple of thousand! SNMP is not available on Cisco ones at this time.
Disappointed by SWs response a more and more of these VoIP devices (sometimes as switches) are appearing on our networks and I for one need more manageability on them.
I am pretty sure the way to go is through the call-manager (as they do with WAPs) but currently there is nothing available from SW?
