Easily Identify FortiSwitch port searching by MAC (FortiLink CLI)

[Jeremy5385]

I’m using Fortilink to manage switches from the Fortigate.  When searching to find the port for a device MAC I can dump the mac table using this command:

# diag switch-controller switch-info mac-table

This gives me pages and pages since I have 25 FortiSwitches on this system.  When I use grep and add the MAC, there can be one line for every switch that has this entry in its table.  I can tell from the output below that the device is on Port43 but no good way to tell which FortiSwitch in Foritlink.

# diag switch-controller switch-info mac-table | grep 23:27

MAC: fc:0f:e7:17:23:27  VLAN: 249 Trunk: _FlInK1_ICL0_(trunk-id 0)

MAC: fc:0f:e7:17:23:27  VLAN: 249 Trunk: 8EPTF24001548-0(trunk-id 11)

MAC: fc:0f:e7:17:23:27  VLAN: 249 Trunk: E24TF24002765-0(trunk-id 1)

MAC: fc:0f:e7:17:23:27  VLAN: 249 Trunk: E24TF24002765-0(trunk-id 1)

MAC: fc:0f:e7:17:23:27  VLAN: 249 Trunk: _FlInK1_MLAG0_(trunk-id 0)

MAC: fc:0f:e7:17:23:27  VLAN: 249 Port: port43(port-id 43)

MAC: fc:0f:e7:17:23:27  VLAN: 249 Trunk: 8EPTF24001548-0(trunk-id 0)

It would be nice if every line in the dump had the FortiSwitch name at the beginning, but it doesn’t.  Anyone found a good way to get this information in the CLI?  I’ve tried using the -f switch with grep but that doesn’t work.

[AEK]

Since FOS' grep command is not as rich as Linux', as a workaround I'd copy the whole text to my text editor and search for the MAC.

A dumb workaround but is better than nothing.