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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 for Dell Software Configuration Guide
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Preface

Audience

This guide is for the networking professional managing the standalone Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130
for Dell or blade switch stack, referred to as the sw itch. Before using this guide, you should have
experience working with the Cisco IOS software and be familiar w ith the con ce pts a nd te rm inology of
Ethernet and local area networking.
You install the switch in the Dell M1000e blade server chassis, referred to as the enclosure.

Purpose

This guide provides procedures for using the commands that have been created or changed for use with
the switches. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed information
about these commands, see the command reference for this release. For information about the standard
Cisco IOS Release 12.2 commands, see the Cisco IOS documentation set available from the Cisc o.com
home page at Products & Services > Technical Support & Documentation > See Documentation >
Cisco IOS Software.
This guide does not provide detailed information on the GUIs for the embedded device manager or for
Cisco Network Assistant (hereafter referred to as Network Assistant) th at you ca n use t o mana ge t h e
switch. However, the concepts in this guide are applicable to the GUI user. For information about the
device manager, see the switch online help. For information about Network Assistant, see Getting
Started with Cisco Network Assistant, available on Cisco.com.
This guide does not describe system messages you might encounter or how to install your switch. For
more information, see the system message guide for this release and the hardware installation guide.
For documentation updates, see the release notes for this release.

Conventions

This publication uses these conventions to convey instructions and information:
Command descriptions use these conventions:
Commands and keywords are in boldface text.
Arguments for which you supply values are in italic.
Square brackets ([ ]) mean optional elements.