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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 for Dell Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter4 Configuring Cisco IOS CNS Agents
Configuring Cisco IOS Agents
Enabling the CNS Event Agent
Note You must enable the CNS event agent on the switch before you enable the CNS configuration agent.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to enable the CNS event agent on the switch:
To disable the CNS event agent, use the no cns event {ip-address | hostname} global configuration
command.
This example shows how to enable the CNS event agent, set the IP address gateway to 10.180.1.27, set
120 seconds as the keepalive interval, and set 10 as the retry count.
Switch(config)# cns event 10.180.1.27 keepalive 120 10
Command Purpose
Step1 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step2 cns event {hostname | ip-address} [port-number]
[backup] [failover-time seconds] [keepalive seconds
retry-count] [reconnect time] [source ip-address]
Enable the event agent, and enter the gateway parameters.
For {hostname | ip-address}, enter either the
hostname or the IP address of the event gateway.
(Optional) For port number, enter the port number for
the event gateway. The default port number is 11011.
(Optional) Enter backup to show that this is the
backup gateway. (If omitted, this is the primary
gateway.)
(Optional) For failover-time seconds, enter how long
the switch waits for the primary gateway route after
the route to the backup gateway is established.
(Optional) For keepalive seconds, enter how often the
switch sends keepalive messages. For retry-count,
enter the number of unanswered keepalive messages
that the switch sends before the connection is
terminated. The default for each is0.
(Optional) For reconnect time, enter the maximum
time interval that the switch waits before trying to
reconnect to the event gateway.
(Optional) For source ip-address, enter the source IP
address of this device.
Note Though visible in the command-line help string,
the encrypt and the clock-timeout time keywords
are not supported.
Step3 end Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step4 show cns event connections Verify information about the event agent.
Step5 show running-config Verify your entries.
Step6 copy running-config startup-config (Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.