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Cisco IE 3010 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Preface

Audience

This guide is for the networking professional managing the IE 3010 swi tch. Before using this guide, you
should have experience working with the Cisco IOS software and be familiar with the concepts and
terminology of Ethernet and local area networking.

Purpose

The switch is supported by the Layer 2 LAN base image. Layer 3 routing functionality is not supported.
This guide provides the information that you need to configure Cisco IOS software features on your
switch. This guide provides procedures for using the commands that have been created or changed for
use with the switch. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed
information about these commands, see the IE 3010 Switch 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 Cisco.com home page at Documentation > Cisco IOS Software.
This guide does not provide detailed information on the graphical user interfaces (GUI s) for the
embedded device manager. However, the concepts in this guide are applicable to the GUI user. For
information about the device manager, see the switch online help.
This guide does not describe system messages you might encounter or how to install your switch. For
more information, see the IE 3010 Switch System Message Guide for this release and the IE 3010 Switch
Hardware In stallat ion Guid e.
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.
Braces ({ }) group required choices, and vertical bars ( | ) separate the alternative elements.