Cisco ME 3400 - Layer 3 VPN Services; Monitoring Features

1-10
Cisco ME 3400 Ethernet Access Switch Software Configuration Guide
OL-9639-07
Chapter 1 Overview
Features
• IPv6 default router preference (DRP) for improving the ability of a host to select an appropriate
router
• Support for EIGRP IPv6, which utilizes IPv6 transport, communicates with IPv6 peers, and
advertises IPv6 routes
Layer 3 VPN Services
These features are available only when the switch is running the metro IP access image.
• Multiple VPN routing/forwarding (multi-VRF) instances in customer edge devices (multi-VRF CE)
to allow service providers to support multiple virtual private networks (VPNs) and overlap IP
addresses between VPNs
• Multicast virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) Lite for configuring multiple private routing
domains for network virtualization and virtual private multicast networks
• VRF and EIGRP compatibility
Monitoring Features
• Switch LEDs that provide port- and switch-level status
• 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 copper Ethernet 10/100
ports
• SFP module diagnostic management interface to monitor physical or operational status of an SFP
module
• Enhanced object tracking for HSRP clients (requires metro IP access image)
• IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLAs) support to measure network performance by using active
traffic monitoring (requires metro IP access or metro access image)
• 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 (requires metro IP access or metro
access image)
• EOT and IP SLAs EOT static route support to identify when a preconfigured static route or a DHCP
route goes down (requires metro IP access or metro access image)