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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Management Features
Cisco Network Assistant
Cisco Network Assistant manages standalone devices, clusters of devices, or federations of devices from
anywhere in your intranet. Using its graphical user interface, you can perform multiple configuration
tasks without having to remember command-line interface commands. Embedded CiscoView is a device
management application that can be embedded on the switch flash and provides dynamic status,
monitoring, and configuration information for your switch.
For more information on Cisco Network Assistant, see Chapter 12, “Configuring the Catalyst 4500
Series Switch with Cisco Network Assistant.”
Dynamic Host Control Protocol
The Catalyst 4500 series switch uses DHCP in the following ways:
Dynamic Host Control Protocol server—The Cisco IOS DHCP server feature is a full DHCP server
implementation that assigns and manages IP addresses from specified address pools within the
router to DHCP clients. If the Cisco IOS DHCP server cannot satisfy a DHCP request from its own
database, it can forward the request to one or more secondary DHCP servers defined by the network
administrator.
Dynamic Host Control Protocol autoconfiguration—With this feature your switch (the DHCP client)
is automatically configured at startup with IP address information and a configuration file.
For DHCP server configuration information, refer to the chapter, “Configuring DHCP,” in the Cisco
IOS IP and IP Routing Configuration Guide at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipaddr/configuration/guide/iad_dhcp_rdmp_ps6350_TSD_P
roducts_Configuration_Guide_Chapter.html
Embedded CiscoView
A web-based toos to configure the Catalyst 4500 series switch. Embedded CiscoView is a device
management application that can be embedded on the switch flash and provides dynamic status,
monitoring, and configuration information for your switch.
For more information on Embedded CiscoView, see Chapter 4, “Administering the Switch.
Embedded Event Manager
Embedded Event Manager (EEM) is a distributed and customized approach to event detection and
recovery offered directly in a Cisco IOS device. EEM offers the ability to monitor events and take
informational, corrective, or any desired EEM action when the monitored events occur or when a
threshold is reached. An EEM policy is an entity that defines an event and the actions to be taken when
that event occurs.
For information on EEM, see the URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6815/products_ios_protocol_group_home.html