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Chapter9 Creating and Maintaining VLANs
Understanding VMPS
Administering and Monitoring the VMPS
You can display information about the VMPS by using the show vmps privileged EXEC command . The
switch displays this information about the VMPS:
Troubleshooting Dynamic Port VLAN Membership
The VMPS shuts down a dynamic port under these conditions:
The VMPS is in secure mode, and it does not allow the host to connect to the port. The VMPS shuts
down the port to prevent the host from connecting to the network.
More than 20 active hosts reside on a dynamic port.
To re-enable a disabled dynamic port, enter the no shutdown interface c onfi gur ation c om mand.
Dynamic Port VLAN Membership Configuration Example
Figure 9-7 shows a network with a VMPS server switch and VMPS client switches with dynamic ports.
In this example, these assumptions apply:
The VMPS server and the VMPS client are separate switches.
The Catalyst 6000 series Switch 1 is the primary VMPS server.
The Catalyst 6000 series Switch 3 and Switch 10 are secondary VMPS servers.
End stations are connected to the Catalyst 3550 clients, Switch 2 and Switch 9.
The database configuration file is stored on the TFTP server with the IP addr es s 17 2.20. 22. 7.
VMPS VQP Version The version of VQP used to communicate with the VMPS. The switch queries
the VMPS that is using VQP version 1.
Reconfirm Interval The number of minutes the switch waits before reconfirming the
VLAN-to-MAC-address assignments.
Server Retry Count The number of times VQP resends a query to the VMPS. If no response is
received after this many tries, the switch starts to query the secondary VMPS.
VMPS domain server The IP addr ess of the confi gured VLAN me mbership polic y servers. Th e switch
sends queries to the one marked current. The one marked primary is the primary
server.
VMPS Action The result of the most recent reconfirmation attempt. A reconfirmation attempt
can occur automatically when the reconfirmation interval expired, or you can
force it by entering the vmps reconfirm privileged EXEC command or its CMS
or SNMP equivalent.