Powerconnect 5324 locating a MAC in the address-table

There is no way to keep the output from pausing for user input on this switch.   You have 2 options:

- send multiple "space" characters after sending the "show bridge address-table" command.  If you have a large network, since the address table is 8K and the screen length is set to 24, you would have to send 341 (8192/24)  spaces to be sure you get the whole table.

- use snmp to get the forrwarding database.  I believe the MIB object is dot1dFdbAddressTable or something like that. 

Spamming space characters does not seem to work.  I can still only get the first page of results.

I cannot seem to get SNMP working either, but I'm personally not familiar with it so I have a lot of figuring out to do.

Thanks for your help.

Does anything happen when you "spam" space characters?  Do you at least get one page?  If so, this is probably due to overflowing the input put buffer.  Instead of blasting the "show bridge address-table" command and 331 spaces, try sending the "show bridge address-table" command, wait 2 seconds, then send one space every 2 seconds until the "console#" prompt appears.  If you set the baud rate faster, you could wait less than 2 seconds between the command and the "space" characters.

It doesn't appear to make a difference how, when or how fast I send the spaces.  It always pauses for a long time then prints the first page.  This method seems too slow anyway.  The SNMP seems to be the most viable method but it appears to need a firmware update in order to get the address table of a different vlan.

try using the command  before your scripts runs you should get the full page output

#terminal datadump

Hope it helps