HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to hp-search-mac — the HP switch search tool 💖 that's the whole name, that's the whole vibe, section 1 of the manual, we're here, we're thriving 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

HP-search-MAC is a util that can query HP switches for their connection table 🔍 it's literally giving network detective energy. Then it lets you search for a MAC address and tells you where that MAC is physically connected — and bestie, it gives you the best match first, because we don't do mid results in this house 👑

The functionality is similar to traceroute but on Ethernet level, and only for HP switches. Ethernet-level traceroute?? not me being obsessed with that concept fr fr 😭💅

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

hp-search-mac [options] [MAC] [...]

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

hp-search-mac [options] mac [ [options] mac ] [...]

so yes, you can stack them — options, a mac, more options, another mac, the whole little parade 🫶

options, as promised:

• --dl n — sets the debug level to n. turn it up if you want to see the ~lore~ 👀
• --help — prints this help. it's giving helpful. it's giving supportive friend 💖
• --hostname host[=>community] / -h host[=>community] — sets a switch name to search 🔍 you can also set this in /etc/hp-search-mac.conf or ~/.hp-search-mac.conf instead, if you're a config-file kind of person 🎀 The hash to set is \%switches.

Mac, the main character of the arguments:

• you can use some different formats, and honestly? versatile icon behavior 👑
  • ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (hex)
  • ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff (hex)
  • 0.123.0.12.0.12.0 (dec)

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🧚 CONFIGURATION 🧚

• \%switches — this is a normal perl hash of the form:

\%switches = ("host" => "community", ...);

just a lil hash, doing lil hash things, holding your hosts and their communities together 🍓

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> — thank you for this, legend 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• snmp-walk(1)
• snmp-get(1)

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and that's the page bestie!! this one's hp-search-mac, dated Mon Dec 15 19:23:15 UTC 2025, and it came to you courtesy of the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew 💜 slay, go find some MAC addresses, you've got this 🫶✨