Cisco Systems Network Assistant Planning and Creating Communities

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Getting Started with Cisco Network Assistant

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Planning and Creating Communities

This chapter provides the concepts and procedures for planning and creating communities by using

Network Assistant. It contains these sections:

• Planning a Community, page 4-1

• Creating a Community, page 4-3

For information about using Network Assistant to configure communities, see the online help.

This section describes the guidelines, requirements, and caveats that you should understand before you

create a community.

Candidates are network devices that have IP addresses but that have not been added to a community.

Members are network devices that have been added to a community.

To join a community, a candidate must meet these requirements:

• It has an IP address.

• It has HTTP or HTTPS enabled on the default ports.

Note You cannot add clusters to a community. You can add cluster members individually.

If you add a cluster command device to a community, the other members of the cluster are not

added automatically. To manage the cluster members, you must add them individually to the

community.

If you add a Catalyst 3750 switch stack master to a community, the individual stack members

are automatically added to the community, even though the stack members do not appear in the

Modify Community or Discover windows. However, when you connect to the community, the

stack members do appear in the Front Panel and Topology views.