IP Telephony

Overview

The IP Telephony section provides information about all IP phones (VoIP) and their clients detected on the network. Phone information is extracted using a link layer discovery protocol or MAC address.

Phones

The IP Phones and connected devices table details network information of every discovered IP phone and its connected hosts.

Phone IP is the IP address of the phone.

Name is the short name of the phone.

Phone MAC is the MAC address of the phone.

Vendor is the vendor of the NIC based on OUI lookup in the IEEE database.

Phone Int. is the network interface name of the phone.

User IP is the IP address of a host connected to the phone.

User MAC is the MAC address of a host connected to the phone. In cases where there is more than one host connected to the phone, a “multiple” message is displayed instead of the individual MAC addresses.

Switch is the short name of the switch to which the phone is connected.

Site is the site in which the phone is located.

Switch Int. is the interface to which the phone is connected.