remotely disable a port on switch given an IP address

[ravi.malghan]

Hi: I want to remotely disable the switch port an IP address is connected. Does any cisco product provide an API to do this? In other words I want to run a script from a remote machine that will connect to cisco product (using some API) that can instruct a switch (that the product has discovered) to disable a port.

Thanks

Ravi

[zerozerotito]

You can use SNMP

First enable snmp on the switch then define snmp communities...

After all, you can use a program to control switches, like CNA, OpManager, or some network management programs like these...

Or you can write a program which triggers your script to disable the port...