Cisco Systems 2950 Management Options

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Catalyst2950 Desktop Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter1 Overview Management Options
•Policing
– Traffic-policing policies on the switch port for allocating the amount of the port ba ndwi dth to
a specific traffic flow
– Policing traffic flows to restrict specific applications or traffic flows to metered, predefined
rates
– Up to 60 policers on ingress Gigabit-capable Ethernet ports
Up to six policers on ingress 10/100 ports
Granularity of 1 Mbps on 10/100 ports and 8 Mbps on 10/100/1000 ports
– Out-of-profile markdown for packets that exceed bandwidth utilization limits
Note Policing is available only in the EI.
•Egress Policing and Scheduling of Egres s Qu eues —Four egress queues on all switch ports. Support
for strict priority and weighted round-robin (WRR) CoS polic ies
Monitoring
•Switch LEDs that provide visual port and switch status
•Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Remote SPAN (RSPAN) for traffic monitoring on any port or
VLAN
Note RSPAN is available only in the EI.
•Four groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) of embedded remote monitoring (RMON) agents
for network monitoring and traffic analysis
•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
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