Juniper EX series – Configuring MAC Notification

Sometimes you might have to deal with the situations where you wish to keep a log of all the MAC addresses joining or leaving your network. When switches learn or remove a MAC address, a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) notification can be sent to the network management system to record the addition or removal of the MAC address. This process is known as MAC notification The MAC notification interval defines how often Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) notifications logging the addition or removal of MAC addresses on the switch are sent to the network management system. For instance, if the MAC notification interval is set to 10, all of the MAC address addition and removal SNMP notifications will be sent to the network management system every 10 seconds. MAC notification is disabled by default on all the switches.  When MAC notification is enabled, the default MAC notification interval is 30 seconds.   To enable MAC notification on the switch with any other MAC noti

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