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Cisco ME 3800X and 3600X Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
Monitoring Features
• Switch LEDs that provide port- and switch-level status
• Configurable external alarm inputs
• 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
• 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 copper Ethernet 10/100
ports
• SFP module diagnostic management interface to monitor physical or operational status of an SFP
module
• Online diagnostics to test the hardware functionality 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
• IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLAs) support to measure network performance by using active
traffic monitoring
• IP SLAs for Metro Ethernet using IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet Operation, Administration, and
Maintenance (OAM) capability to validate connectivity, jitter, and latency in a metro Ethernet
network)
Feature Support per License
Table 1-1 ME 3600X Supported Features per License
Metro IP Access (Universal Image) Advanced Metro IP Access license
• Basic Layer 2 features (including 802.1Q)
• EVCs
• IPv4 routing (RIP, OSFP, EIGRP, IS-IS, and BGP) and BFD
• Multicast routing (PIM, DM, SSM and SSM mapping)
• Ethernet OAM (802.1ag, 802.3ah, and E-LMI),
• MST, REP, Flex Links
• Synchronous Ethernet
• Multi VRF-CE (VRF-Lite) with service awareness (ARP,
ping, SNMP, syslog, traceroute, FTP and TFTP)
• All features in the Metro IP Access image
• MPLS
• MPLS traffic engineering and Fast Reroute
• MPLS OAM
• MPLS VPN
• Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS)
• Pseudowire redundancy
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