I’ve been using Dude for a bit now and haven’t really though much about why my switch doesn’t show up in the network configuration. I setup a small network with 2 PCs, network printer, a server, 1 switch and 1 router. I’ve allocated 7 IP on my network not including my router. Everything shows up on the diagram with the exception of my switch. I know what IP it’s using because I got an IP conflict when I tried to static all my nodes. Plus when I was using dynamic, there was a gap between two nodes, which told me the switch was being assigned a IP address. My switch is an unmanaged node so I’m not sure if that’s the problem. Thanks for any help.
You should just be able to manually add it as a device by the ip address, put a ping service on it.
Since it is unmanaged you probably can’t get any snmp information out of it either.
Place a probe on it that should work like and try public for the SNMP read string…
Add a link between the switch and a device and see if manually setting up a link will read SNMP from the switch.
If not you can setup SNMP on all your computers and use those to get link information from.
With non managed devices you will probably have to just put all the stuff in by hand for them.
That’s pretty much what I thought I would have to do. It’s funny how it doesn’t pickup the switch but it picks up the server attached to the switch. The thing is I can only guess at the IP address. I tried to ping 1 of the only 3 IP address not used on my network and came back with can’t be reached. I’ll try to manually config and see how that goes.
Yeah I wasn’t thinking hard enough, “unmanaged” it doesn’t even have an IP address so there is no way to reach it. It is invisible.
You can place a static object on the map and just run links to it so you have a real representation of your network. Not enough sleep this week.