The Customer Manufactures setting is used to determine what devices will show up as Rogure Network Devices in the Switchport Connection Report
The list of Manufacturers is dynamic based on the discovered Manufacturer OIDs match to MAC addressed in your network. Use this list to select what manufacturer equipment is expected to exist and be configured in your environment. Click Save after you have made your selections and then click Close to continue using bitB.
This setting will affect switchport reports run with past or present time intervals.
Looking at the following snippet from the Switchport Connection Report, you can see that bitB has flagged two devices as Rogue. (highlighted in yellow).
There are multiple classifications of Rogue devices in the industry. QoS Networking uses three definitions for Rogue Devices.
Administratevly Rogue
Administratevily Rogue is defined as a Rogue Device discovered using administraive analysis. Is the network device manufacturer supported in the network? Is the network device manufacturer supported by bitB? If the network device manufacturer device is supported in the network, was it configured poprtely to be deiscovered by bitB?
A network device that IS SUPPORTED or NOT SUPPORTED in the network or bitB can determine if a device is Administratevly Rogue.
The first is a Cisco Device. The message says Rogue Network Device - Not Configured
This happens when the Manufacturer IS SUPPORTED in the network and the Manufacturer IS SUPPORTED by bitB but the device is not configured. The device is considered to be Administratively Rogue. Administratively Rouge is when a device IS SUPPORTED in the network and the Manufacturer IS SUPPORTED by bitB but the device isn’t properly configured and can’t be discovered by bitB. This could be due to a firewall blocking the connection, local security policy on the device, or username/password issues.
The second is a Netgear Device. The message says Rogue Network Device.
This happens when the Manufacturer is NOT SUPPORTED in the network and NOT SUPPORTED by bitB.
To demonstrate the last two possible values, I have removed Cisco as a supported Manufacturer and selected Netgear as a supported Manufacturer.
The message for the Cisco Device has changed from Rogue Network Device - Not Configured to Rogue Network Device - Not Customer Supported.
This happens when the Manufacturer is NOT SUPPORTED in the network but the Manufacturer IS SUPPORTED by bitB. The device is considered to be Administratively Rogue. Administratively Rouge is when a device is supported in the network
by bitB but the device has not properly been configured to be discovered by bitB. This could be due to a firewall blocking the connection, local security policy on the device, or username/password issues.
The second is a Netgear Device. The message says Rogue Network Device.
The message says the Manufacturer is NOT Supported in the network and NOT supported by bitB.
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