Manageability features – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 and 3032 for Dell Software Configuration Guide

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Chapter 1 Overview

Features

Manageability Features

These are the manageability features:

CNS embedded agents for automating switch management, configuration storage, and delivery

DHCP for automating configuration of switch information (such as IP address, default gateway,
hostname, and Domain Name System [DNS] and TFTP server names)

DHCP relay for forwarding User Datagram Protocol (UDP) broadcasts, including IP address
requests, from DHCP clients

DHCP server for automatic assignment of IP addresses and other DHCP options to IP hosts

DHCP server port-based address allocation for the preassignment of an IP address to a switch port

Directed unicast requests to a DNS server for identifying a switch through its IP address and its
corresponding hostname and to a TFTP server for administering software upgrades from a TFTP
server

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) for identifying a switch through its IP address and its
corresponding MAC address

Unicast MAC address filtering to drop packets with specific source or destination MAC addresses

Configurable MAC address scaling that allows disabling MAC address learning on a VLAN to limit
the size of the MAC address table

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Versions 1 and 2 for network topology discovery and mapping
between the switch and other Cisco devices on the network

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and LLDP Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED) for
interoperability with third-party IP phones

Support for the LLDP-MED location TLV that provides location information from the switch to the
endpoint device

Network Time Protocol (NTP) for providing a consistent time stamp to all switches from an external
source

Cisco IOS File System (IFS) for providing a single interface to all file systems that the switch uses

Configuration logging to log and to view changes to the switch configuration

Configuration replacement and rollback to replace the running configuration on a switch with any
saved Cisco IOS configuration file

Unique device identifier to provide product identification information through a show inventory
user EXEC command display

In-band management access through the device manager over a Netscape Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer browser session

In-band management access for up to 16 simultaneous Telnet connections for multiple CLI-based
sessions over the network

In-band management access for up to five simultaneous, encrypted Secure Shell (SSH) connections
for multiple CLI-based sessions over the network (requires the cryptographic universal software
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In-band management access through SNMP Versions 1, 2c, and 3 get and set requests

Out-of-band management access through the switch console port to a directly attached terminal or
to a remote terminal through a serial connection or a modem

Out-of-band management access through the internal Ethernet management port to a PC

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