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Replacement for Smart Control Center (SCC) replacement
I have decent collection of these switches in use (among others) and recently discovered that the Smart Control Center (SCC) software has completely stopped working. It starts, but it will not attach...
HTM wrote:It will not discover anything. Its basically useless. And of course I went to the Netgear web site to look for an update and found that the software is EOL.
The Smart Control Center (SCC) does date from a design introduced over two decades ago, it was designed for the discovery and management of switches without any other user interface.
The technology used for the implementation is phased out and no longer supported by the vendor since January 2021.
HTM wrote:How do I detect the switches on my LAN? What is the replacement approach to deal with this
- NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool (NSDT) - it's available for Apple MacOS, Windows, and Linux systems.
- the Insight App (iOS, iPadOS, Android) can discover switches, and
- Bonjour (most newer switch models offer this, blame Apple for having removed it from the Safari Bookmarks, look into https://bonjourbrowser.com/ for a Safari plugin or standalone for MacOS)
- UPnP SSDP discovery so Windows Explorer does nicely list all your switches
- Routers offer the ability for MAC-IP reservations so the switch will always have the same IPv4 address, better ones offer local DNS so you could assign unique names to be used eg. in the Web browser URL
- Last but not least, more and more newer switches are added to be cloud / Insight managed.
Needless to say, this requires the system or mobile ot be connected to the management network (just like SCC).
How much more options do you need? It's absolutely leading edge what Netgear offers on this subject!
HTM wrote:Gonna be expensive to replace more than 15 Netgear managed swtiches with another brand, but I will be doing just that in the not too distant furture if this cant get solved.
The tagged GS724Tv3 has like all decent Netgear switches a fully working Web UI.
Leaving the cloud-only-managed vendors aside which obviously need certain discovery processes for the initial set-up, I'm not awre which other vendor does support that many discovery options as Netgear does.
HTM wrote:Has anyone found the fix for mananging these switches?
The tagged GS724Tv3 has like all decent Netgear switches a fully working Web UI, and all except the Smart Managed Plus are supporting SNMP as an industry standard.
So all of the discovery solutions you listed do not work. They might on newer Netgear devices, but the issue was not only discovery but also centralized management.
NSDT does not detect any of the switches on the network, so this was a bust. I had high hopes and might try to figure out why, but there isnt much to work with message or error wise without adding sniffers and packet analizers to see what the app is doing over the wire.
These are newer switches so Bonjour is no help.
Still looking for Netgear solution to centrally manage Netgear (Managed) swtiches, a bit like Ubiquti, Cisco, HP, Adtran, Dell and other large enterprise devices can all do.
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