[Beowulf] How can i get the port number of a switch port via snmp?

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 18:11 +0800, Zhang Hui wrote:
> Hi,all
> 
> 	I need to disable a switch port my machine is connected to. But first I have to know the port number,haven't i?
> 	So how can i get the port number? 

The cabling in your cluster should be labelled,
so you could simply follow the cable and identify the switch port.

To get a port number using SNMP, you might start with this script,
which works for 3Com switches:

http://www.webservertalk.com/archive215-2004-6-253855.html

It uses the Perl Net::SNMP module