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Chapter1 Overview Management Options
•Scheduling of egress queues—Four egress queues on all switch ports. Support for strict priority and
weighted round-robin (WRR) CoS policies
Monitoring
•Switch LEDs that provide visual port and switch status
•Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) for traffic monitoring on any port or VLAN
•SPAN support of intrusion detection systems (IDSs) to monitor, repel, and report network security
violations
•MAC address notification for tracking the MAC addresses that the switch has learned or removed
•Syslog facility for logging system messages about authentication or authorization errors, resource
issues, and time-out events
•Layer 2 traceroute to identify the physical path that a packet takes from a source device to a
destination device
Management Options
The switches are designed for plug-and-play operation: you only need to assign basic IP in formation to
the switch and connect it to the other devices in your network. If you have specific network needs, you
can configure and monitor the switch—on an individual basis or as part of a switch cluster—through its
various management interfaces.
This section discusses these topics:
•Management Interface Options, page 1-6
•Advantages of Using CMS and Clustering Switches, page 1-6

Management Options

The switches are designed for plug-and-play operation: you can install the switch in your network
without any configuration. To manage the switch remotely, you only need to assign basic IP information
to the switch and connect it to the other devices in your network. If you have specific network needs,
you can configure and monitor the switch—on an individual basis or as part of a switch cluste r—through
its various management interfaces.
Note To assign an IP address by using the browser-based Express Setup program, refer to Chapter 1, “Quick
Setup”, in the hardware installation guide.
This section discusses these topics:
•Management Interface Options, page 1-6
•Advantages of Using CMS and Clustering Switches, page 1-6