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Cisco Catalyst Switch Manager User Guide
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Chapter 2 Basic Concepts
Cisco Catalyst Switch Manager Objects and Interfaces
Network Element Object
The Network Element object is a logical container representing the entire Catalyst switch managed
through the supervisor and/or MSFC SNMP agents and Catalyst OS/IOS command-line interface. This
class acts as a container for the physical and logical components of the device. The entire hierarchical
structure of the Cisco Catalyst Switch Manager components is as follows:
Network Element
Chassis
Power Supplies
Supervisor Modules
Ethernet Interfaces
Ethernet Modules
Ethernet Interfaces
Switch Fabric Modules
FlexWAN Modules
Port Adapter
ATM Port Adapter
ATM SONET Interfaces
ATM E3 Interfaces
ATM T3 Interfaces
OSM GeWAN Modules
OSM GeWAN Interfaces
OSM POS Modules
Ethernet Interfaces
OSM POS Interfaces
OSM Channelized SONET Modules
Ethernet Interfaces
OSM Channelized SONET Interfaces
OSM Serial Sub-interfaces
OSM POS Sub-interfaces
Content Switching Modules
Software
EtherChannels
Syslog
EIGRP
BGP
OSPF
VTP
VLAN
STP
IS-IS
ACL
NDE
Loopback
QoS
QoS Policy Map