When a node on the network has a duplicate IP address conflict, is there any way to use Solarwinds to find it - by MAC address or otherwise...?
I am not sure how you would do that via Solarwinds but you definitely have an alarming mechanism by the users who have duplicate IPs calling in with issues. :-)
Joking aside it would be tough to custom poll arp/mac tables and then compare all of them to find where duplicate IP's may exist. We don't have a big issue with this where I work so I guess I prefer the wait til someone complains method.
hehe...that's how we do it also - wait for the user to yell.
i was just wondering if it could be automated or caught by something like Solarwinds.
THere is no way for SolarWinds to do that really. The most accurate way to detect this is by looking into the mac-address/arp tables of your switches and see what they report as the mac of the particular IP. If the mac changes you know you have a conflict. You can just ping from your switch the address in question and look at the arp tables and rinse and repeat a few times. If the MAC changes in the arp tables you know you have a conflict for sure.
