Cisco Systems Network Assistant manual Planning and Creating Communities, Planning a Community

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C H A P T E R 4

Planning and Creating Communities

This chapter provides the concepts and procedures for planning and creating communities by using Network Assistant. It contains these sections:

Planning a Community, page 4-1

Creating a Community, page 4-3

For information about using Network Assistant to configure communities, see the online help.

Planning a Community

This section describes the guidelines, requirements, and caveats that you should understand before you create a community.

Candidate and Member Characteristics

Candidates are network devices that have IP addresses but that have not been added to a community. Members are network devices that have been added to a community.

To join a community, a candidate must meet these requirements:

It has an IP address.

It has HTTP or HTTPS enabled on the default ports.

Note You cannot add clusters to a community. You can add cluster members individually.

If you add a cluster command device to a community, the other members of the cluster are not added automatically. To manage the cluster members, you must add them individually to the community.

If you add a Catalyst 3750 switch stack master to a community, the individual stack members are automatically added to the community, even though the stack members do not appear in the Modify Community or Discover windows. However, when you connect to the community, the stack members do appear in the Front Panel and Topology views.

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Contents Americas Headquarters Getting Started with Cisco Network AssistantPage N T E N T S Manually Adding Members Purpose PrefaceAudience Getting Started with Cisco Network Assistant What Is Network Assistant? What Is Network Assistant? Front Panel View, Topology View, Network Assistant FeaturesFront Panel View Front Panel View and Port Popup Window Topology ViewMenu Bar Menu Bar, Toolbar, and Feature BarTask ToolbarIcon Task Feature Bar4shows the feature bar Network Assistant Modes Guide Mode SignpostsPrivilege Levels Updates for Network AssistantWizards SmartportsOnline Help Starting Network Assistant Installing Cisco Network AssistantInstalling Network Assistant Connect Window Connecting to Network AssistantEvent Notification OL-6194-07 Planning a Community Candidate and Member CharacteristicsPlanning and Creating Communities Hostnames Community Device LimitAutomatic Discovery of Candidates and Members Community NamesCommunity Information PasswordsCreating a Community Communication ProtocolsVerifying a Community Manually Adding MembersConverting a Cluster to a Community Feature Default Value Recommended Value Network Assistant-Related Features and Their DefaultsCommand Purpose Configuring Your Switch for Network AssistantAdditional Configuration Required to Manage a Community Command Purpose D E IN-2