Help finding what interfaces contain my servers

Here's the scenario...

100 sites, I know which switch to access at each site.
need to find 4 servers, they will have 4 of 9 possible IP addresses.

Here's my current way to accomplish it... i.e. looking for 10.11.2.5

telnet to 10.11.1.1
ping 10.11.2.5 (to determin it exists, and populate ARP cache)
show arp | include 10.11.2.5
show mac-address-table | include {mac accress found in previous step}
--that yields the interface--

You can see this is very time consuming to do for 900 addresses. Any way to streamline this with Solarwinds tools?

And this actually point out the need for another ping tool... I'll post that separetly.

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mcbridea

Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong but can't you just ping the servers by name?

FormerMember

Pinging by name doesn't give me the interface where it's physically connected.

mcbridea

Have you tried Engineer's Toolset Switch Port Mapper?

FormerMember

Switch Port Mapper comes close, but I only care about 3 interfaces so it is a little excessive in all the data it returns. And I still have to run it 100 times to get all my switches.

Thanks though, I'd forgotten about that tool. It's better than what I was doing originally!

It works but I'm still looking for something better. Something a little more targeted for my desired results. Meaning just the interfaces or IP addresses I care about.