NCS Prime Infrastructure 1.3 - can "unknown" Vendor OUIs be updated?

While looking at client information from a pair of controllers on our NCS (version 1.3.0.20) I see what amounts to 53 different "Unknown" vendors listed among the clients. My question - Is there any way to update the OUI Vendor data in NCS to reflect the current IEEE registered OUIs? Considering that approximately 75% of the Unknown vendors I see are Apple devices it would help to have reports reflect vendor reality.

It looks like NCS 1.3 allows you to update the OUI via - Admin->system settings -> user defined OUI
If you are on NCS 1.1.1.24, you will need to upgrade to 1.3 to modify the OUI

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start
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Thank you for the reply. sorry for late update.
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