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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 and 3032 for Dell Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
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In-band management access through the device manager over a Netscape Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer browser session
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In-band management access for up to 16 simultaneous Telnet connections for multiple CLI-based
sessions over the network
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In-band management access for up to five simultaneous, encrypted Secure Shell (SSH) connections
for multiple CLI-based sessions over the network (requires the cryptographic universal software
image)
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In-band management access through SNMP Versions 1, 2c, and 3 get and set requests
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Out-of-band management access through the switch console port to a directly attached terminal or
to a remote terminal through a serial connection or a modem
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Out-of-band management access through the internal Ethernet management port to a PC
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Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) feature to provide a secure and authenticated method for copying
switch configuration or switch image files (requires the cryptographic universal software image)
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Wired location service that sends location and attachment tracking information for connected
devices to a Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE)
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LLDP-MED network-policy profile time, length, value (TLV) for creating a profile for voice and
voice-signalling by specifying the values for VLAN, class of service (CoS), differentiated services
code point (DSCP), and tagging mode CPU utilization threshold trap to monitor CPU utilization
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The HTTP client in Cisco IOS supports can send requests to both IPv4 and IPv6 HTTP servers, and
the HTTP server in Cisco IOS can service HTTP requests from both IPv4 and IPv6 HTTP clients.
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SNMP can be configured over IPv6 transport so that an IPv6 host can send SNMP queries and
receive SNMP notifications from a device running IPv6.
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IPv6 supports stateless autoconfiguration to manage link, subnet, and site addressing changes, such
as management of host and mobile IP addresses.
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Support for including a hostname in the option 12 field of DHCPDISCOVER packets. This provides
identical configuration files to be sent by using the DHCP protocol.
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DHCP Snooping enhancement to support the selection of a fixed string-based format for the
circuit-id sub-option of the Option 82 DHCP field.
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Cisco EnergyWise to manage the power usage of EnergyWise entities, such as power over Ethernet
(PoE) devices and end points running daemons.
Note
For additional descriptions of the management interfaces, see the
“Network Configuration Examples”
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