Release Notes for Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Modules, Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EJ and Later
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Release Notes for Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Modules, Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EJ and Later
Device Manager System Requirements
Finding the Software Version and Feature Set
Upgrading a Switch by Using the Device Manager or Network Assistant
Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI
Recovering from a Software Failure
Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EJ1
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Modules, Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EJ and Later
Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EJ and later runs on Cisco enhanced EtherSwitch service modules SM-X-ES3-16-P and SM-X-ES3-24-P. Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EJ1 runs on SM-X-ES3D-48-P.
Unless otherwise noted, the term switch refers to Cisco enhanced EtherSwitch service modules and supports the same features as that of Catalyst 3560-X switch. The terms Cisco Catalyst 3560-X Switch and Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Modules are used interchangeably in this document.
For more information, see the “Deciding Which Files to Use” section and the “Related Documentation” section.
These release notes include important information about Cisco IOS Release15.0(2)EJ and higher, and any limitations, restrictions, and caveats that apply to it. Verify that these release notes are correct for your switch:
- If you are installing a new switch, see the Cisco IOS release label on the rear panel of your switch.
- If your switch is on, use the show version privileged EXEC command. See the “Finding the Software Version and Feature Set” section.
- If you are upgrading to a new release, see the software upgrade filename for the software version. See the “Deciding Which Files to Use” section.
You can download the switch software from this site (registered Cisco.com users with a login password):
http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/download/index.htmlContents
- “System Requirements” section
- “Upgrading the Switch Software” section
- “Installation Notes” section
- “Limitations and Restrictions” section
- “Important Notes” section
- “Open Caveats” section
- “Resolved Caveats” section
- “Related Documentation” section
- “Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request” section
System Requirements
- “Supported Hardware” section
- “Device Manager System Requirements” section
- “Cluster Compatibility” section
- “CNA Compatibility” section
Supported Hardware
Software
- Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows Server 2003.
- Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, Firefox 1.5, 2.0 or later with JavaScript enabled.
The device manager verifies the browser version when starting a session and does not require a plug-in.
Cluster Compatibility
You cannot create and manage switch clusters through the device manager. To create and manage switch clusters, use the command-line interface (CLI) or the Network Assistant application.
When creating a switch cluster or adding a switch to a cluster, follow these guidelines:
- When you create a switch cluster, we recommend configuring the highest-end switch in your cluster as the command switch.
- If you are managing the cluster through Network Assistant, the switch with the latest software should be the command switch.
- The standby command switch must be the same type as the command switch. For example, if the command switch is a Catalyst 3560-X switch, all standby command switches must be Catalyst 3560-X switches.
For additional information about clustering, see Getting Started with Cisco Network Assistant , Release Notes for Cisco Network Assistant, the Cisco enhanced EtherSwitch service module documentation, the software configuration guide, and the command reference.
CNA Compatibility
Cisco IOS 12.2(35)SE2 and later is only compatible with Cisco Network Assistant 5.0 and later. You can download Cisco Network Assistant from this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/NetworkAssistantFor more information about Cisco Network Assistant, see the Release Notes for Cisco Network Assistant on Cisco.com.
Upgrading the Switch Software
- “Finding the Software Version and Feature Set” section
- “Deciding Which Files to Use” section
- “Archiving Software Images” section
- “Upgrading a Switch by Using the Device Manager or Network Assistant” section
- “Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI” section
- “Recovering from a Software Failure” section
Finding the Software Version and Feature Set
The Cisco IOS image is stored as a bin file in a directory that is named with the Cisco IOS release. A subdirectory contains the files needed for web management. The image is stored on the system board flash device (flash:).
You can use the show version privileged EXEC command to see the software version that is running on your switch. The second line of the display shows the version.
Note
Although the show version output always shows the software image running on the switch, the model name shown at the end of this display is the factory configuration and does not change if you upgrade the software license.
You can also use the dir filesystem : privileged EXEC command to see the directory names of other software images that you might have stored in flash memory.
Deciding Which Files to Use
If you have a service support contract and order a software license or if you order a switch, you receive the universal software image and a specific software license. If you do not have a service support contract, such as a SMARTnet contract, download the IP base image from Cisco.com. The switches running the universal software images can use permanent and temporary software licenses. See the “Cisco IOS Software Activation Conceptual Overview” chapter in the Cisco IOS Software Activation Configuration Guide :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/csa/configuration/guide/12.4T/csa_book.htmlThe universal software images support multiple feature sets. Use the software activation feature to deploy a software license and to enable a specific feature set.
Catalyst 3560-X switches running payload-encryption images can encrypt management and data traffic. Switches running nonpayload-encryption images can encrypt only management traffic, such as a Secure Shell (SSH) management session.
- Management traffic is encrypted when SSH, Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and other cryptographic-capable applications or protocols are enabled.
- Data traffic is encrypted when MACsec is enabled.
For more information about Catalyst 3560-X software licenses and available images, see the Cisco IOS Software Installation Document on Cisco.com:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10745/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html
IP base image, as well as LAN base image with Layer 2 features
IP base image, as well as LAN base image with Layer 2 features
The upgrade procedures in these release notes describe how to perform the upgrade by using a combined tar file. This file contains the Cisco IOS image file and the files needed for the embedded device manager. You must use the combined tar file to upgrade the switch through the device manager. To upgrade the switch through the command-line interface (CLI), use the tar file and the archive download-sw privileged EXEC command.
Archiving Software Images
Before upgrading your switch software, make sure that you have archived copies of the current Cisco IOS release and the Cisco IOS release from which you are upgrading. You should keep these archived images until you have upgraded all devices in the network to the new Cisco IOS image and until you have verified that the new Cisco IOS image works properly in your network.
Cisco routinely removes old Cisco IOS versions from Cisco.com. See Product Bulletin 2863 for more information:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps8802/ps6969/ps1835/prod_bulletin0900aecd80281c0e.htmlYou can copy the bin software image file on the flash memory to the appropriate TFTP directory on a host by using the copy flash: tftp: privileged EXEC command.
Note
You can also configure the switch as a TFTP server to copy files from one switch to another without using an external TFTP server by using the tftp-server global configuration command. For more information about the tftp-server command, see the “Basic File Transfer Services Commands” section of the Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference, Release 12.2 :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_t1.htmlUpgrading a Switch by Using the Device Manager or Network Assistant
You can upgrade switch software by using the device manager or Network Assistant. For detailed instructions, click Help .
Note
Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI
This procedure is for copying the combined tar file to the switch. You copy the file to the switch from a TFTP server and extract the files. You can download an image file and replace or keep the current image.
To download software, follow these steps:
Step 1
Step 2
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http://software.cisco.com/download/navigator.html?a=a&i=rpmb.
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Step 3
For more information, see Appendix B in the software configuration guide for this release.
Step 4
Step 5
For more information about assigning an IP address and default gateway to the switch, see the software configuration guide for this release.
Step 6
The /overwrite option overwrites the software image in flash memory with the downloaded one.
The /reload option reloads the system after downloading the image unless the configuration has been changed and not saved.
For // location , specify the IP address of the TFTP server.
For / directory / image-name .tar , specify the directory (optional) and the image to download. Directory and image names are case sensitive.
This example shows how to download an image from a TFTP server at 198.30.20.19 and to overwrite the image on the switch:
You can also download the image file from the TFTP server to the switch and keep the current image by replacing the /overwrite option with the /leave-old-sw option.
Installation Notes
Use these methods to assign IP information to your switch:
- The Express Setup program , as described in the switch getting started guide.
- The CLI-based setup program, as described in the switch hardware installation guide.
- The DHCP-based autoconfiguration, as described in the switch software configuration guide.
- Manually assigning an IP address, as described in the switch software configuration guide.
Limitations and Restrictions
You should review this section before you begin working with the switch. These are known limitations that will not be fixed, and there is not always a workaround. Some features might not work as documented, and some features could be affected by recent changes to the switch hardware or software.
Cisco IOS Limitations
- “Access Control List” section
- “Address Resolution Protocol” section
- “Configuration” section
- “Configuration” section
- “EtherChannel” section
- “IEEE 802.1x Authentication” section
- “Multicasting” section
- “PoE or PoE+” section
- “QoS” section
- “RADIUS” section
- “Routing” section
- “SPAN and RSPAN” section
- “Spanning Tree Protocol” section
- “VLANs” section
- “TrustSec” section
Access Control List
- When a MAC access list is used to block packets from a specific source MAC address, that MAC address is entered in the switch MAC-address table.
The workaround is to block traffic from the specific MAC address by using the mac address-table static mac-addr vlan vlan-id drop global configuration command. (CSCse73823)
Address Resolution Protocol
- The switch might place a port in an error-disabled state due to an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) rate limit exception even when the ARP traffic on the port is not exceeding the configured limit. This could happen when the burst interval setting is 1 second, the default.
The workaround is to set the burst interval to more than 1 second. We recommend setting the burst interval to 3 seconds even if you are not experiencing this problem.(CSCse06827))
Configuration
- When an excessive number (more than 100 packets per second) of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packets are sent to a Network Admission Control (NAC) Layer 2 IP-configured member port, a switch might display a message similar to this:
PLATFORM_RPC-3-MSG_THROTTLED: RPC Msg Dropped by throttle mechanism: type 0, class 51, max_msg 128, total throttled 984323
-Traceback= 6625EC 5DB4C0 5DAA98 55CA80 A2F2E0 A268D8No workaround is necessary. Under normal conditions, the switch generates this notification when snooping the next ARP packet. (CSCse47548)
- When there is a VLAN with protected ports configured in fallback bridge group, packets might not be forwarded between the protected ports.
The workaround is to not configure VLANs with protected ports as part of a fallback bridge group. (CSCsg40322)
When a switch port configuration is set at 10 Mb/s half duplex, sometimes the port does not send in one direction until the port traffic is stopped and then restarted. You can detect the condition by using the show controller ethernet-controller or the show interfaces privileged EXEC commands.
The workaround is to stop the traffic in the direction in which it is not being forwarded, and then restart it after 2 seconds. You can also use the shutdown interface configuration command followed by the no shutdown command on the interface. (CSCsh04301)
- When line rate traffic is passing through a dynamic port, and you enter the switchport access vlan dynamic interface configuration command for a range of ports, the VLANs might not be assigned correctly. One or more VLANs with a null ID appears in the MAC address table instead.
The workaround is to enter the switchport access vlan dynamic interface configuration command separately on each port. (CSCsi26392)
Diagnostics
- (Catalyst 3560-X switches) When you enter the test cable-diagnostics tdr interface or the show cable-diagnostics tdr interface privileged EXEC command on an interface to determine the length of a connected cable, the cable length might be reported as N/A. This can occur when there is no link, a 10 Mb/s link, or a 100 Mb/s link, even though there are no cable faults. Cable length is reported correctly when a 1 Gb/s link is active on the interface.
The workaround to verify the cable length is to enter the commands when a Gigabit link is active on the interface or after disconnecting the far end of the cable. (CSCte43869)
EtherChannel
- In an EtherChannel running Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), the ports might be put in the suspended or error-disabled state after a stack partitions or a member switch reloads. This occurs when:
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The EtherChannel ports are put in the suspended state because each partitioned stack sends LACP packets with different LACP Link Aggregation IDs (the system IDs are different). The ports that receive the packets detect the incompatibility and shut down some of the ports. Use one of these workarounds for ports in this error-disabled state:
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The EtherChannel ports are put in the error-disabled state because the switches in the partitioned stacks send STP BPDUs. The switch or stack at the other end of the EtherChannel receiving the multiple BPDUs with different source MAC addresses detects an EtherChannel misconfiguration.
After the partitioned stacks merge, ports in the suspended state should automatically recover. (CSCse33842)
- When a switch stack is configured with a cross-stack EtherChannel, it might transmit duplicate packets across the EtherChannel when a physical port in the EtherChannel has a link-up or link-down event. This can occur for a few milliseconds while the switch stack adjusts the EtherChannel for the new set of active physical ports and can happen when the cross-stack EtherChannel is configured with either mode ON or LACP. This problem might not occur with all link-up or link-down events.
No workaround is necessary. The problem corrects itself after the link-up or link-down event. (CSCse75508)
- The switch might display tracebacks similar to this example when an EtherChannel interface port-channel type changes from Layer 2 to Layer 3 or the reverse:
15:50:11: %COMMON_FIB-4-FIBNULLHWIDB: Missing hwidb for fibhwidb Port-channel1 (ifindex 1632) -Traceback= A585C B881B8 B891CC 2F4F70 5550E8 564EAC 851338 84AF0C 4CEB50 859DF4 A7BF28 A98260 882658 879A58IEEE 802.1x Authentication
- If a supplicant using a Marvel Yukon network interface card (NIC) is connected an IEEE 802.1x-authorized port in multihost mode, the extra MAC address of 0c00.0000.0000 appears in the MAC address table.
Use one of these workarounds (CSCsd90495):
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- When MAC authentication bypass is configured to use Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) for authorization and critical authentication is configured to assign a critical port to an access VLAN:
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Use one of these workarounds (CSCse04534):
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- When IEEE 802.1x authentication with VLAN assignment is enabled, a CPUHOG message might appear if the switch is authenticating supplicants in a switch stack.
The workaround is not use the VLAN assignment option. (CSCse22791)
Multicasting
- Multicast packets with a time-to-live (TTL) value of 0 or 1 are flooded in the incoming VLAN when all of these conditions are met:
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The workaround is to not generate multicast packets with a TTL value of 0 or 1, or disable multicast routing in the VLAN. (CSCeh21660)
- Multicast packets denied by the multicast boundary access list are flooded in the incoming VLAN when all of these conditions are met:
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There is no workaround. (CSCei08359)
- Reverse path forwarding (RPF) failed multicast traffic might cause a flood of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) messages in the VLAN when a packet source IP address is not reachable.
The workaround is to not send RPF-failed multicast traffic, or make sure that the source IP address of the RPF-failed packet is reachable. (CSCsd28944)
- If the clear ip mroute privileged EXEC command is used when multicast packets are present, it might cause temporary flooding of incoming multicast traffic in the VLAN.
There is no workaround. (CSCsd45753)
- When you configure the ip igmp max-groups number and ip igmp max-groups action replace interface configuration commands and the number of reports exceed the configured max-groups value, the number of groups might temporarily exceed the configured max-groups value. No workaround is necessary because the problem corrects itself when the rate or number of IGMP reports are reduced. (CSCse27757)
- When you configure the IGMP snooping throttle limit by using the ip igmp max-groups number interface configuration on a port-channel interface, the groups learned on the port-channel might exceed the configured throttle limit number, when all of these conditions are true:
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The workaround is to disable the IGMP snooping throttle limit by using the no ip igmp max-groups number interface configuration command and then to reconfigure the same limit again. (CSCse39909)
PoE or PoE+
- When a loopback cable is connected to a switch PoE port, the show interface status privileged EXEC command shows not connected , and the link remains down. When the same loopback cable is connected to a non-PoE port, the link becomes active and then transitions to the error-disabled state when the keepalive feature is enabled.
There is no workaround. (CSCsd60647)
The workaround is to enable PoE and to configure the switch to recover from the PoE error-disabled state. (CSCsf32300)
- The pethPsePortShortCounter MIB object appears as short even though the powered device is powered on after it is connected to the PoE port.
There is no workaround. (CSCsg20629)
- (Catalyst 3560-X switches) When a powered device (such as an IP phone) connected to a PoE+ port restarts and sends a CDP or LLDP packet with a power TLV, the switch locks to the power-negotiation protocol of that first packet. The switch does not respond to power requests from the other protocol. For example, if the switch is locked to CDP, it does not provide power to devices that send LLDP requests. If CDP is disabled after the switch has locked on it, the switch does not respond to LLDP power requests and can no longer power on any accessories.
The workaround is to turn the powered device off and then on again.
QoS
- When QoS is enabled and the egress port receives pause frames at the line rate, the port cannot send packets.
There is no workaround. (CSCeh18677)
There is no workaround. (CSCsc63334)
- In a hierarchical policy map, if the VLAN-level policy map is attached to a VLAN interface and the name of the interface-level policy map is the same as that for another VLAN-level policy map, the switch rejects the configuration, and the VLAN-level policy map is removed from the interface.
The workaround is to use a different name for the interface-level policy map. (CSCsd84001)
- If the ingress queue has low buffer settings and the switch sends multiple data streams of system jumbo MTU frames at the same time at the line rate, the frames are dropped at the ingress.
There is no workaround. (CSCsd72001)
- When you use the srr-queue bandwidth limit interface configuration command to limit port bandwidth, packets that are less than 256 bytes can cause inaccurate port bandwidth readings. The accuracy is improved when the packet size is greater than 512 bytes.
There is no workaround. (CSCsg79627)
- If QoS is enabled on a switch and the switch has a high volume of incoming packets with a maximum transmission unit (MTU) size greater than 1512 bytes, the switch might reload.
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- If you configure a large number of input interface VLANs in a class map, a traceback message similar to this might appear:
Routing
- The switch stack might reload if the switch runs with this configuration for several hours, depleting the switch memory and causing the switch to fail:
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The workaround is to reduce the number of OSPF neighbors to 200 or less. (CSCse65252)
- When the PBR is enabled and QoS is enabled with DSCP settings, the CPU utilization might be high if traffic is sent to unknown destinations.
The workaround is to not send traffic to unknown destinations. (CSCse97660)
Smart Install
- When upgrading switches in a stack, the director cannot send the correct image and configuration to the stack if all switches in the stack do not start at the same time. A switch in the stack could then receive an incorrect image or configuration.
The workaround is to use an on-demand upgrade to upgrade switches in a stack by entering the vstack download config and vstack download image commands. (CSCta64962)
- When you upgrade a Smart Install director to Cisco IOS Release 12.2(55)SE but do not upgrade the director configuration, the director cannot upgrade client switches.
When you upgrade the director to Cisco IOS Release 12.2(55)SE, the workaround is to also modify the configuration to include all built-in, custom, and default groups. You should also configure the tar image name instead of the image-list file name in the stored images. (CSCte07949)
- Backing up a Smart Install configuration could fail if the backup repository is a Windows server and the backup file already exists in the server.
The workaround is to use the TFTP utility of another server instead of a Windows server or to manually delete the existing backup file before backing up again. (CSCte53737)
- In a Smart Install network with the backup feature enabled (the default), the director sends the backup configuration file to the client during zero-touch replacement. However, when the client is a switch in a stack, the client receives the seed file from the director instead of receiving the backup configuration file.
The workaround, if you need to configure a switch in a stack with the backup configuration, is to use the vstack download config privileged EXEC command so that the director performs an on-demand upgrade on the client.
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- If the director in the Smart Install network is located between an access point and the DHCP server, the access point tries to use the Smart Install feature to upgrade even though access points are not supported devices. The upgrade fails because the director does not have an image and configuration file for the access point.
There is no workaround. (CSCtg98656)
- When a Smart Install director is upgrading a client switch that is not Smart Install-capable (that is, not running Cisco IOS Release 12.2(52)SE or later), the director must enter the password configured on the client switch. If the client switch does not have a configured password, there are unexpected results depending on the software release running on the client:
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SPAN and RSPAN
- When the RSPAN feature is configured on a switch, CDP packets received from the RSPAN source ports are tagged with the RSPAN VLAN ID and forwarded to trunk ports carrying the RSPAN VLAN. When this happens, a switch that is more than one hop away incorrectly lists the switch that is connected to the RSPAN source port as a CDP neighbor.
This is a hardware limitation. The workaround is to disable CDP on all interfaces carrying the RSPAN VLAN on the device connected to the switch. (CSCeb32326)
- When egress SPAN is running on a 10-Gigabit Ethernet port, only about 12 percent of the egress traffic is monitored.
There is no workaround. This is a hardware limitation. (CSCei10129)
- (Catalyst 3560-X switches) When you enter the show monitor privileged EXEC command the monitor source port output is incorrect. This situation occurs only if the monitor source port(s) is a pluggable Gigabit module and you set any source port combination, except when just using a single Gigabit port on the pluggable module as the source port.
This is a cosmetic issue and the workaround is to use the show platform monitor session privileged EXEC command to display the correct source ports. (CSCtn67868)
Spanning Tree Protocol
When a switch or switch stack running Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) is connected to a switch running Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), the MST switch acts as the root bridge and runs per-VLAN spanning tree (PVST) simulation mode on boundary ports connected to the RST switch. If the allowed VLAN on all trunk ports connecting these switches is changed to a VLAN other than VLAN 1 and the root port of the RSTP switch is shut down and then enabled, the boundary ports connected to the root port move immediately to the forward state without going through the PVST+ slow transition.
VLANs
- Integrated Service Router ISR-44X1 have reserved a set of VLANs (2350 to 2449) for additional usage. You must ensure that these VLANs are not used in the network. If the reserve vlans are present in the database, you must remove these reserve vlans before inserting the ISR-44X1 platform. If reserved vlans are present in vlan database of the switch, the module will not come up in ISR-44X1 platforms due to internal vlan allocation failure.
It is not allowed to add the reserved vlans into vlan database and apply on the front panel ports of the module once the NGIO control path is up. The module will drop the packets if it is tagged with any of the reserved vlans on the front panel ports.
- If the number of VLANs times the number of trunk ports exceeds the recommended limit of 13,000, the switch can fail.
The workaround is to reduce the number of VLANs or trunks. (CSCeb31087)
- When the domain is authorized in the guest VLAN on a member switch port without link loss and an Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN (EAPOL) is sent to an IEEE 802.1x supplicant to authenticate, the authentication fails. This problem happens intermittently with certain stacking configurations and only occurs on the member switches.
The workaround is to enter the shut and no shut interface configuration commands on the port to reset the authentication status. (CSCsf98557)
- The error message %DOT1X_SWITCH-5-ERR_VLAN_NOT_FOUND might appear for a switch stack under these conditions:
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- When you enter the boot host retry timeout global configuration command to specify the amount of time that the client should keep trying to download the configuration and you do not enter a timeout value, the default value is zero, which should mean that the client keeps trying indefinitely. However, the client does not keep trying to download the configuration.
The workaround is to always enter a non zero value for the timeout value when you enter the boot host retry timeout timeout-value command. (CSCsk65142)
- When many VLANs are configured on the switch, high CPU utilization occurs when many links are flapping at the same time.
The workaround is to remove unnecessary VLANs to reduce CPU utilization when many links are flapping. (CSCtl04815)
TrustSec
The following guidelines and limitations apply to configuring Cisco TrustSec SGT and SGACL on the Catalyst 3560-X switch:
- You cannot statically map an IP-subnet to an SGT. You can only map IP addresses to an SGT. When you configure IP address-to-SGT mappings, the IP address prefix must be 32.
- If a port is configured in Multi-Auth mode, all hosts connecting on that port must be assigned the same SGT. When a host tries to authenticate, its assigned SGT must be the same as the SGT assigned to a previously authernticated host. If a host tries to authenticate and its SGT is different from the SGT of a previously authenticated host, the VLAN port (VP) to which these hosts belong is error-disabled.
- Cisco TrustSec enforcement is supported only on up to eight VLANs on a VLAN-trunk link. If there are more than eight VLANs configured on a VLAN-trunk link and Cisco TrustSec enforcement is enabled on those VLANs, the switch ports on those VLAN-trunk links will be error-disabled.
- The switch cannot assign an SGT based on SXP listening; it can only forward the SXP bindings through the SXP protocol.
- Port-to-SGT mapping can be configured only on Cisco TrustSec links (that is, switch-to-switch links). Port-to-SGT mapping cannot be configured on host-to-switch links.
When port-to-SGT mapping is configured on a port, an SGT is assigned to all ingress traffic on that port. There is no SGACL enforcement for egress traffic on the port.
Important Notes
- “Control Plane Protection” section
- “Control Plane Protection” section
- “Cisco IOS Notes” section
- “Device Manager Notes” section
Control Plane Protection
Cisco enhanced EtherSwitch service modules internally support up to 16 different control plane queues. Each queue is dedicated to handling specific protocol packets and is assigned a priority level. For example, STP, routed, and logged packets are sent to three different control plane queues, which are prioritized in corresponding order, with STP having the highest priority. Each queue is allocated a certain amount of processing time based on its priority. The processing-time ratio between low-level functions and high-level functions is allocated as 1-to-2. Therefore, the control plane logic dynamically adjusts the CPU utilization to handle high-level management functions as well as punted traffic (up to the maximum CPU processing capacity). Basic control plane functions, such as the CLI, are not overwhelmed by functions such logging or forwarding of packets.
Cisco IOS Notes
- Unlike other platforms, the response to an Energywise query on a 3560-X is the actual switch power consumption and not a fixed number.
- If the switch requests information from the Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) and the message exchange times out because the server does not respond, a message similar to this appears:
If this message appears, make sure that there is network connectivity between the switch and the ACS. You should also make sure that the switch has been properly configured as an AAA client on the ACS.
- If the switch has interfaces with automatic QoS for voice over IP (VoIP) configured and you upgrade the switch software, when you enter the auto qos voip cisco-phone interface configuration command on another interface, you might see this message:
If this happens, enter the no auto qos voip cisco-phone interface command on all interface with this configuration to delete it. Then enter the auto qos voip cisco-phone command on each of these interfaces to reapply the configuration.
Device Manager Notes
- You cannot create and manage switch clusters through the device manager. To create and manage switch clusters, use the CLI or Cisco Network Assistant.
- When the switch is running a localized version of the device manager, the switch displays settings and status only in English letters. Input entries on the switch can only be in English letters.
- For device manager session on Internet Explorer, popup messages in Japanese or in simplified Chinese can appear as garbled text. These messages appear properly if your operating system is in Japanese or Chinese.
- We recommend this browser setting to speed up the time needed to display the device manager from Microsoft Internet Explorer.
From Microsoft Internet Explorer:
1. Choose Tools > Internet Options .
2. Click Settings in the “Temporary Internet files” area.
3. From the Settings window, choose Automatically .
5. Click OK to exit the Internet Options window.
- The HTTP server interface must be enabled to display the device manager. By default, the HTTP server is enabled on the switch. Use the show running-config privileged EXEC command to see if the HTTP server is enabled or disabled.
If you are not using the default method of authentication (the enable password), you need to configure the HTTP server interface with the method of authentication used on the switch
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure the HTTP server interface:
The device manager uses the HTTP protocol (the default is port 80) and the default method of authentication (the enable password) to communicate with the switch through any of its Ethernet ports and to allow switch management from a standard web browser.
If you change the HTTP port, you must include the new port number when you enter the IP address in the browser Location or Address field (for example, http://10.1.126.45:184 where 184 is the new HTTP port number). You should write down the port number through which you are connected. Use care when changing the switch IP information.
Open Caveats
Unless otherwise noted, these caveats apply to Cisco enhanced EtherSwitch service modules SM-X-ES3-16-P, SM-X-ES3-24-P, and SM-X-ES3D-48-P:
In a Smart Install network, when the director is connected between the client and the DHCP server and the server has options configured for image and configuration, then the client does not receive the image and configuration files sent by the DHCP server during an automatic upgrade. Instead the files are overwritten by the director and the client receives the image and configuration that the director sends.
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When you enter the copy running-config startup config privileged EXEC command on the switch, the running configuration is not always saved to the startup configuration on the first attempt.
There is no workaround. If you wait for a few minutes, the configuration is saved when the switch attempts it again.
NetFlow traffic export fails when the source interface IP address and destination IP address are on different subnets.
When you configure port-based QoS with an ACL by using the ACL range option, problems can occur if you have also configured mls qos trus t on the interface.
The workaround is to match traffic by using the single port equal ( eq ) option or to not configure mls qos trust on the interface.
A seed switch is connected to a RADIUS server either directly or through a trunk port. A non-seed switch authenticates with the RADIUS server through the seed switch, based on the credential information defined in the RADIUS server. Cisco TrustSec (CTS) parameters must be configured on both the seed switch and the non-seed switch trunk interfaces.
Although the non-seed switch is authenticated and authorized to connect to the network, supplicant devices connected to the non-seed switch might be unable to connect to the network, under these circumstances:
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The workaround is to reduce the reauthentication time on the seed switch, or enter the shutdown interface configuration command, followed by the no shutdown interface configuration command on the seed switch CTS trunk interface.
ASP now uses a device classifier, which determines the type of device that is connected to the switch. As a result, ASP has no control over the protocol type that is used to detect the device. Therefore, the protocol detection controls are deprecated. When you enter the macro auto global control detection command, the protocol does not show up in the running configuration; however, the filter-spec command is shown in the output.
There is no workaround. To see the deprecated commands, enter the show running config deprecated global and interface configuration command.
RIP hellos get triplicated as they exit a dot1q-tunnel interface. This situation occurs specifically when a dot1q-tunnel configuration is applied.
Monitored SPAN traffic is not sent to the SPAN destination when TrustSec MACsec is enabled on the SPAN source interface.
When a cross-stack Etherchannel is used and one of its link is brought down or up, a MAC address learned from this port-channel may either be prematurely cleared from the table or not aged out.
The workaround is to use a single switch Etherchannel or to clear dynamically-learned MAC addresses after links have been added to or removed from the channel.
The following message may be erroneously displayed during the boot up process.
Tracebacks appear during the boot up process.
The global power inline consumption default 15400 command fails to restrict the power consumption of a PoE+ port 15.4 W.
The workaround is to use the power inline consumption 15400 command in interface configuration mode.
ACLs applied to outbound traffic on the switch virtual interface (SVI) do not work.
Errors occur when configuring Cisco Trust Security (CTS) MACsec on the C3KX-SM-10G network service module.
The workaround is to use the default command in CTS manual interface configuration mode to clear the interface, and then reapply the configuration.
When the show sdm prefer command is run on the switch, the template displays the number of indirect IPv4 routes as 7.875K instead of 8K compared to Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)SE2. There is a reduction of 0.125K in the desktop routing template.
When switch is reloaded, total inline power available shows zero.
Switch service module reloads or goes to out-of-service state when IP routing is disabled at line rate. There is no workaround.
Resolved Caveats
Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EJ1
Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EJ1
When switch is reloaded, ports go to power-deny state.
Security Group Access Control List (SGACL) is not supported on the service modules even though the corresponding show commands are present.
When show hardware led command is run on the service modules the power LED status is not displayed.
Related Documentation
User documentation in HTML format includes the latest documentation updates and might be more current than the complete book PDF available on Cisco.com.
Documents with complete information about the switch are available from these Cisco.com sites:
Catalyst 3560-X
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10744/tsd_products_support_series_home.htmlDocuments with complete information about the EtherSwitch service modules are available from these Cisco.com sites:
- Connecting Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Modules to the Network :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/interfaces/nm/hardware/installation/guide/eesm_hw.html- Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Modules Configuration Guide :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/interfaces/software/feature/guide/eesm_sw.htmlThese documents provide complete information about the EtherSwitch service modules:
- Cisco SM-X Layer 2/3 EtherSwitch Service Module Configuration Guide for Cisco 4451-X ISR
- Cisco SM-X Layer 2/3 EtherSwitch Service Module (ESM) Configuration Guide for Cisco 2900 and Cisco 3900 Series ISRs
These documents provide complete information about the switches:
- Release Notes for the Catalyst 3750-X. Catalyst 3750-E, Catalyst 3560-X, and 3560-E Switches
- Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Software Configuration Guide
- Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Command Reference
- Catalyst 3750-X, 3750-E, 3560-X, and 3560-E Switch System Message Guide
- Cisco IOS Software Installation Document.
- Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Getting Started Guide
- Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Hardware Installation Guide
- Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch
- Installation Notes for the Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Power Supply Modules
- Installation Notes for the Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Fan Module
- Installation Notes for the Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Network Modules
- Cisco Software Activation and Compatibility Document
- Auto Smartports Configuration Guide
- Cisco EnergyWise Configuration Guide
- Smart Install Configuration Guide
- Information about Cisco SFP, SFP+, and GBIC modules is available from this Cisco.com site:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps5455/prod_installation_guides_list.htmlSFP compatibility matrix documents are available from this Cisco.com site:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps5455/products_device_support_tables_list.htmlFor other information about related products, see these documents:
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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