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Need to Monitor IP to MAC Drift Check

  • March 31, 2026
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In NetBrain, we have One IP table which maintain the ip to mac mapping. I want to make observability dashboard which will highlight the alert in dashboard if ip to mac entry change for particular to ip address.

Not able to find way to have one ip table data collection once day / as per our schedule and alert if changes happened.

Best answer by Sahilkatira

Hi ​@harishchandras 

Do you want to check the mac for management ip of device or all IP as device will have many MAC as per interfaces. For only Mgmt Ip, I called the one ip table inside intent and stored the value of mac inside a variable. Then during next execution we can compare the past value against present and raise alert in case of difference.

 

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  • April 9, 2026

@vamsi - Need your help on this.


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  • April 14, 2026

Hi ​@harishchandras 

Do you want to check the mac for management ip of device or all IP as device will have many MAC as per interfaces. For only Mgmt Ip, I called the one ip table inside intent and stored the value of mac inside a variable. Then during next execution we can compare the past value against present and raise alert in case of difference.

 


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  • April 22, 2026

I want to check for the all servers connected to my switch. Will your NI work for it ?


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  • April 22, 2026

It will work but the diagnosis will need some changes.
You will need to loop through the device interface list in that scenario and then fetch MAC value for each interface through One IP Table using the same logic as i showed.

We could store these values in variables or table format and then compare against the last MAC address values. In case of change raise an alert.

Please reach out to your CSE/AE and they can work with you to achieve this outcome.