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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 and 3032 for Dell Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
Monitoring Features
These are the monitoring features:
• Switch LEDs that provide port- and switch-level status on nonstacking-capable switches
• Switch LEDs that provide port-, switch-, and stack-level status on stacking-capable switches
• MAC address notification traps and RADIUS accounting for tracking users on a network by storing
the MAC addresses that the switch has learned or removed
• Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Remote SPAN (RSPAN) for traffic monitoring on any port or
VLAN
• SPAN and RSPAN support of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to monitor, repel, and report
network security violations
• Four groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) of embedded RMON agents for network
monitoring and traffic analysis
• Syslog facility for logging system messages about authentication or authorization errors, resource
issues, and time-out events
• Layer 2 traceroute to identify the physical path that a packet takes from a source device to a
destination device
• Time Domain Reflector (TDR) to diagnose and resolve cabling problems on 10/100 and
10/100/1000 copper Ethernet ports
• SFP module diagnostic management interface to monitor physical or operational status of an SFP
module
• Online diagnostics to test the hardware functionality of the supervisor engine, modules, and switch
while the switch is connected to a live network
• On-board failure logging (OBFL) to collect information about the switch and the power supplies
connected to it
• Digital optical monitoring (DOM) to check status of X2 small form-factor pluggable (SFP) modules
• Enhanced object tracking (EOT) for HSRP to determine the proportion of hosts in a LAN by tracking
the routing table state or to trigger the standby router failover
• IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLAs) support to measure network performance by using active
traffic monitoring
• IP SLAs EOT to use the output from IP SLAs tracking operations triggered by an action such as
latency, jitter, or packet loss for a standby router failover takeover
• Support for EEM 3.2, which introduces event detectors for Neighbor Discovery, Identity, and
MAC-Address-Table.
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