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Chapter 4 Deploying the Cisco Catalyst Switch Manager
Due to the large number of possible VLAN objects available to a Network Element, the VLANS
container may be configured to group VLANs into subsets. These groupings improve system
performance during subchassis discovery. By default, VLAN container objects exist as depicted in the
previous listing, however, VLAN object configuration may be altered by editing the
C6576MCntrllUserData.ini file. Under the VLAN Group area of the file, you may modify the Objects
per Group value (default value is 205) and you may decrease the Maximum VLANs entry (default value
is 4096). The maximum value may not be increased above 4096.
Commissioning is the process that notifies Cisco EMF to begin actively monitoring an object. The
following Cisco Catalyst Switch Manager objects can be commissioned and decommissioned by the
user:
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Network Element
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Supervisor Module
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Ethernet Module
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Switch Fabric Module
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FlexWAN Module
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Content Switching Module
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Port Adapter
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OSM Module
When applied to these objects, the commissioning process is propagated down to all the object’s
children. For example, if the Network Element object is commissioned, all the Cisco Catalyst Switch
Manager objects are also commissioned. If only a Supervisor Module object is commissioned, then its
Ethernet Interface objects are also commissioned.
When the Network Element object is commissioned, a subchassis discovery is started to determine the
contents of the switch. The subchassis discovery task is executed during commissioning. The discovery
task does the following:
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Verifies the predeployed objects.
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If a mismatch between a predeployed object and the discovered object exists, then the predeployed
object is placed in a Mismatched state. For example, if a Supervisor Engine 2 MSFC2 is predeployed
but a Supervisor Engine 1A MSFC2 is discovered, the Supervisor Module object will be placed in
a Mismatched state. If the wrong object was predeployed, delete the object and recommission the
Network Element. If the wrong module was inserted in the switch or router, insert the correct module
and recommission the object.
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Checks for switch components that were not predeployed. Any objects that are discovered will be
created and commissioned automatically.
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Automatically creates and commissions the remaining Cisco Catalyst Switch Manager objects.
These objects include the power supply and all of the logical objects.
If objects on the switch are discovered that do not currently exist in Cisco EMF, then these objects are
automatically created and populated. For example, an Ethernet module would be automatically
populated with the appropriate number of interfaces when it is discovered. If the object already exists in
Cisco EMF, then a type match is made against the Cisco EMF object and the one found during discovery.
If a mismatch is found, the object is placed into the Mismatched state and an error is generated. If there
is no mismatch, then the object is commissioned successfully and Cisco EMF begins to monitor it.
