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About Campus Manager

Campus Manager Applications

About Campus Manager

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Campus Manager is an integral component of CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution. As an enterprise solution to network management, Campus Manager provides a suite of web-based network management tools that enable administrators to obtain various types of graphical views of their network topology and end-user information.

It also reports network inconsistencies, anomalies, and configuration errors in the discovered network.

Campus Manager provides advanced capabilities to manage Spanning-Tree protocols, and a user friendly interface for creating, modifying, or deleting VLANs, LANEs, or assigning switch ports to VLANs.

Campus Manager is based on a client-server architecture that connects multiple web-based clients to a server on the network.

Campus Manager Applications

Campus Manager applications provide tools for configuring, managing, understanding, and visualizing the complex physical and logical Layer 2 infrastructure.

The applications in Campus Manager and what they allow you to do, are given below:

Application	Allows you to
Topology Services	Manage, view, and monitor the physical and logical services on your network. For more details, see, Chapter 9, "Using Topology Services".
User Tracking	Locate and display data about users and hosts in the network, including wireless users. Dynamic Updates provides the details without any time delay. For more details, see Chapter 7, "Tracking Users".
Managing VLANs and VTP	Assign VLAN to ports, display VLAN ports, or configure trunk ports, Create PVLAN, Delete PVLAN, Configure Promiscuous Ports. For more details, see Chapter 10, "Managing VLANs and VTP".
Discrepancies and Best Practices Deviations Reporting	View the discrepancies and best practices deviations in your network. This lets you resolve discrepancies and best practice deviations. For more details, see Chapter 8, "Discrepancies and Best Practices Deviations".
Virtual Network Manager	Allows you to pre-provision, provision and monitor Virtual Routing and Forwarding-Lite (VRF-Lite) technology. VRF-Lite supports multiple virtual routing instances using a single routing device used to virtualize networks span across enterprise network. For more details, see Chapter 14, "Virtual Network Manager."