Standard Network Protocols, Network Management

Standard Network Protocols

∙Ethernet

–IEEE 802.3, 10BASE-T

∙Fast Ethernet

–IEEE 802.3u, 100BASE-TX

–IEEE 802.3, 100BASE-FX

∙Gigabit Ethernet

–IEEE 802.3z

–IEEE 802.3x

–IEEE 802.3ab

∙1000BASE-X (GBIC)

–1000BASE-SX

–1000BASE-LX/LH

–1000BASE-ZX

∙VLAN trunking and tagging

–IEEE 802.1Q

–IEEE 802.3ad

∙Spanning Tree Protocol

–IEEE 802.1D

–IEEE 802.1w

–IEEE 802.1s

∙Security

–IEEE 802.1x

∙Power over Ethernet (PoE)

–IEEE 802.3af

NETWORK MANAGEMENT

CiscoWorks Resource Manager Essentials, a component of CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS), provides the following benefits to the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series:

∙Builds and maintains an up-to-date hardware and software inventory

∙Maintains an active archive and simplifies deployment of configuration changes to multiple devices

∙Simplifies and accelerates software-image analysis and automates deployment

∙Records and displays comprehensive reports of software, hardware, and configuration changes

∙Highlights critical devices and their ability to respond

∙Isolates network error conditions and suggests probable causes

∙Network-topology discovery and display services

∙VLAN provisioning and logical display representation

∙Traffic monitoring and performance assessment

∙End-station tracking with search utilities

∙CiscoView graphical device management

∙Network-topology integrity checking

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