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Changes and Enhancements in Campus Manager 4.0.3

Re-Factoring of Campus Manager Server Process

Improved Network Discovery

Improved Data Collection

Support for SNMPv3

Support for IPv6

Support for VLAN and VTP

Support for Spanning Tree Protocols

Support for Configuration of Ether Channel and Inter-VLAN Routing

Support for Trunking

Support for TDR

HTML Based User Interface

Integration with Common Services 3.0.3 Components

Changes and Enhancements in Campus Manager 4.0.3

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Campus Manager 4.0.3 provides management support for Layer 2 technologies. It is built on CiscoWorks Common Services 3.0.3 and is an integral component of CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 2.5.1 (LMS 2.5.1).

In this release, the major change on the server side architecture is the refactoring of Campus Manager server. On the client side, the User Tracking application has been redesigned and now appears with a new look and feel.

This appendix contains the changes and enhancements in Campus Manager 4.0.3:

•Re-Factoring of Campus Manager Server Process

•Improved Network Discovery

•Improved Data Collection

•Support for SNMPv3

•Support for IPv6

•Support for VLAN and VTP

•Support for Spanning Tree Protocols

Re-Factoring of Campus Manager Server Process

The Campus Manager server has been refactored to improve the performance and scalability of the application.

Prior to Campus Manager 4.0, the Campus Manager server process was a single process to perform Device Discovery, user tracking, servicing query and configuration from clients.

To improve the server performance and to handle larger networks, Campus Manager server process has been separated into transient processes for device discovery and User Tracking Major Acquisition.

Campus Manager 4.0.3 contains:

•Campus Manager server process as a daemon

•Transient Device Discovery process

•Transient User Tracking Major acquisition process

Campus Manager server process performs Data collection, query and configuration services.

Improved Network Discovery

With Campus Manager 4.0.3, you can:

•Provide seed devices.

•Set the SNMP credentials.

•Run device discovery.

Device Discovery process discovers devices and updates the Device Credential Repository (DCR) with the credentials of the devices.

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Note Campus Manager cannot manage the devices until you run the Data collection process.

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Improved Data Collection

You can choose devices to be managed by Campus Manager from the devices in DCR, or through data collection filters (IP subnets or VTP domains).

Support for SNMPv3

Campus Manager discovers devices configured with SNMPv3 credentials.

Support for IPv6

Campus Manager can discover IPv6, manage IPv4, and dual stack IPv6 devices.

Support for VLAN and VTP

With Campus Manager 4.0.3, you can:

•Create a primary VLAN, secondary VLANs of different types and associate them to the primary VLAN

•Assign or move ports to secondary VLANs

•Configure Promiscuous ports.

•Verify the VTPv2 or VTPv3 related information for the devices in your network that are managed by Campus Manager.

•Apply VTP server filter, transparent filter, or client filter for VTPv2 or VTPv3 domains in Topology Maps.

Support for Spanning Tree Protocols

Campus Manager 4.0.3 provides support for Spanning Tree Protocol. Along with support for different types of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)—PVST, PVST+, MST, MISTP, it allows you to:

•View STP parameters for each switch-cloud, VLAN or instance, or for each port.

•Configure STP parameters on each port and each device.

•View and change the instance-to-VLAN mapping (for MST and MISTP).

•Configure preferred VLANs on trunk ports.

•Fnd the recommended optimal root for a switch cloud and highlights the computed Optimal Root (switch) on topology map.

•Find the recommendation for setting up the number of STP instances on a switch cloud. Highlights the recommended instances on the Map.

•Find the recommendation for reduction of number of STP instances.

•Highlight the instance to which the other instances can be merged.

•Map a new VLAN to recommended instance.

•Highlight the instance on the Map.

•Change certain STP parameters and view the result before applying the changes in the network.

Support for Configuration of Ether Channel and Inter-VLAN Routing

Campus Manager 4.0.3 provides the following support for EtherChannels:

•Configuring multiple links between switches as EtherChannel.

•Configuring EtherChannel load balancing parameters.

Support for Trunking

Campus Manager 4.0.3 supports the following trunking features:

•Configuring a link between two switches as a trunk.

•Configuring the allowed and disallowed VLANs on a trunk.

Support for TDR

Campus Manager 4.0.3 provides support for Cable Diagnostic Test using Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR).

HTML Based User Interface

Campus Manager 4.0.3 has a non-Java based user interface for User Tracking application and Campus Manager Administration.

Integration with Common Services 3.0.3 Components

Campus Manager 4.0.3 integrates with Common Services 3.0.3 modules like OGS, UII, Security and ACS, DCR, PSU, and CiscoWorks Homepage.