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Cisco ME 3800X and 3600X Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
Monitoring Features
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Switch LEDs that provide port- and switch-level status
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Configurable external alarm inputs
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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
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Four groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) of embedded RMON agents for network
monitoring and traffic analysis
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Syslog facility for logging system messages about authentication or authorization errors, resource
issues, and time-out events
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Layer 2 traceroute to identify the physical path that a packet takes from a source device to a
destination device
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Time Domain Reflector (TDR) to diagnose and resolve cabling problems on copper Ethernet 10/100
ports
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SFP module diagnostic management interface to monitor physical or operational status of an SFP
module
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Online diagnostics to test the hardware functionality switch while the switch is connected to a live
network
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On-board failure logging (OBFL) to collect information about the switch and the power supplies
connected to it
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IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLAs) support to measure network performance by using active
traffic monitoring
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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
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Basic Layer 2 features (including 802.1Q)
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EVCs
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IPv4 routing (RIP, OSFP, EIGRP, IS-IS, and BGP) and BFD
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Multicast routing (PIM, DM, SSM and SSM mapping)
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Ethernet OAM (802.1ag, 802.3ah, and E-LMI),
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MST, REP, Flex Links
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Synchronous Ethernet
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Multi VRF-CE (VRF-Lite) with service awareness (ARP,
ping, SNMP, syslog, traceroute, FTP and TFTP)
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All features in the Metro IP Access image
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MPLS
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MPLS traffic engineering and Fast Reroute
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MPLS OAM
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MPLS VPN
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Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS)
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Pseudowire redundancy