So as we scroll down you’ll see the list increasing of different types of devices that we have hooked up to these ports you’ll see everything ranging from Windows to Mac to Linux we have some NAS equipment hooked up to it we have a vCenter there as well a citrix server, ESXi servers, you know there’s all the different types of devices that lansweeper scans are automatically hooked up and linked to the port’s if they’re connected to it.

Below the uplink you’ll see a few actual MAC addresses this is when Lansweeper has not scanned the assets connected to that port yet so if we don’t have a record of an asset and we can just get the MAC address from the switch itself we will just display the MAC address and below that you’ll see the actual assets these are assets at Lansweeper has automatically retrieved from your network and it knows so it can actually map the assets to the specific port it is hooked up to. When Lansweeper detects a large amount of ports connected to one port it’ll tag it as an uplink instead of showing the actual device name.

Uplinks are displayed when for example you have another network device connected to the switch so if you have a router connected to the switch that has multiple ports on it as well or you have another switch connected to this switch. Next to the MAC addresses you have the actual asset so this is the device that is connected to that port you’ll see there’s a few uplinks there. Next to that we have our IP addresses and also the subnet mask and then again another important one is the MAC address which is the actual MAC address of the switch port so that’s the switch port MAC address it’s not the actual MAC address of the device that is attached to your switch.

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