Preface
Purpose
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Catalyst 2900 Series XL and Catalyst 3500 Series XL Software Configuration Guide
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• Cluster Management Suite (CMS) information—This guide provides an 
overview of the CMS web-based, switch management interface. For 
information about CMS requirements and the procedures for browser and 
plug-in configuration and accessing CMS, refer to the release notes. For CMS 
field-level window descriptions and procedures, refer to the CMS online 
help. 
• Cluster configuration—This guide provides information about planning for, 
creating, and maintaining switch clusters. Because configuring switch 
clusters is most easily performed through CMS, this guide does not provide 
the command-line interface (CLI) procedures. For the cluster commands, 
refer to the Catalyst 2900 Series XL and Catalyst 3500 Series XL Command 
Reference.
• CLI command information—This guide provides an overview for using the 
CLI. For complete syntax and usage information about the commands that 
have been specifically created or changed for the Catalyst 2900 XL or 
Catalyst 3500 XL switches, refer to the Catalyst 2900 Series XL and 
Catalyst 3500 Series XL Command Reference.
Note This guide does not repeat the concepts and CLI procedures provided 
in the standard Cisco IOS Release 12.0 documentation. For switch 
features that use standard Cisco IOS Release 12.0 commands, refer to 
the Cisco IOS Release 12.0 documentation on Cisco.com for 
additional information and CLI procedures.