Cisco Systems manual What Is Network Assistant?

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Chapter 1 What Is Network Assistant?

If a community member fails, Network Assistant can continue to manage the other members. If a cluster command device fails, Network Assistant cannot manage the other members of the cluster unless a cluster standby device has been configured.

Communities have fewer restrictions than clusters about where members are located and how they are connected to each other. For more information on cluster member restrictions, see the online help.

If candidate devices do not have CDP enabled, you can still create a community and manually add the devices. Clusters cannot be created unless CDP is enabled on all the candidate devices.

Network Assistant features include front panel and topology views of device groups. See Chapter 2, “Network Assistant Features,” for more information.

For information on setting up communities, see Chapter 4, “Planning and Creating Communities.”

For information on setting up device clusters, see Chapter 4, “Planning and Creating Clusters” of the Getting Started with Cisco Network Assistant document, version 1.0.

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Contents Getting Started with Cisco Network Assistant Americas HeadquartersPage 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? Network Assistant Features Front Panel View, Topology View,Front Panel View Topology View Front Panel View and Port Popup WindowMenu Bar, Toolbar, and Feature Bar Menu BarToolbar TaskFeature Bar Icon Task4shows the feature bar Guide Mode Signposts Network Assistant ModesUpdates for Network Assistant WizardsSmartports Privilege LevelsOnline Help Starting Network Assistant Installing Cisco Network AssistantInstalling Network Assistant Connecting to Network Assistant Connect WindowEvent Notification OL-6194-07 Planning a Community Candidate and Member CharacteristicsPlanning and Creating Communities Community Device Limit Automatic Discovery of Candidates and MembersCommunity Names HostnamesPasswords Creating a CommunityCommunication Protocols Community InformationVerifying a Community Manually Adding MembersConverting a Cluster to a Community Network Assistant-Related Features and Their Defaults Feature Default Value Recommended ValueConfiguring Your Switch for Network Assistant Command PurposeAdditional Configuration Required to Manage a Community Command Purpose D E IN-2