Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Administration Guide

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Chapter 15 Configuring the Catalyst 4500 Series Switch with Cisco Network Assistant
Configuring Your Switch for Network Assistant
Configuring Your Switch for Network Assistant
This section includes the following topics:
• (Minimum) Required Configuration, page 15-4
• (Additional) Configuration Required to Use Community, page 15-5
• (Additional) Configuration Required to Use Clustering, page 15-5
(Minimum) Required Configuration
If you use the default configuration, access the Catalyst 4500 series switch and enter the ip http server
(for HTTP) or ip http secure-server (for HTTPS) global configuration command.
To configure the Catalyst 4500 series switch, perform this task:
[no] ip http timeout-policy
idle idle_time life life_time
requests requests
Configures the HTTPS port.
A idle value of 180 seconds is recommended.
A life value of 180 seconds is recommended.
The recommended maximum number of
requests allowed is 25.
line vty
Configures additional VTYs for use by Cisco
Network Assistant.
show version
Displays the Cisco IOS release.
show running-config
Displays the switch configuration.
vtp domain
Creates a VTP domain to manage VLANs.
vtp mode
Sets the behavior for VTP management of the
VLANs.
Table 15-2 CLI Commands (continued)
Command Functions
Command Purpose
Step 1
Switch# configure terminal
Enters global configuration mode.
Step 2
Switch(config)# ip http server
or
Switch(config)# ip domain-name domain_name
(HTTP only) Enables the HTTP server on the switch. By
default, the HTTP server is disabled.
Enables the domain name on the switch to configure HTTPS.
Step 3
Switch(config)# ip http secure-server
Enables the HTTPS server on the switch. By default, the
HTTPS server is disabled.
Step 4
Switch(config)# ip http max-connections
connection_number
Configures the maximum concurrent connections to the
HTTP server.
A connection_number of 16 is recommended.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E