Monitoring The Vmps; Troubleshooting Dynamic Port Vlan Membership - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Configuration Manual

Configuring VMPS

Monitoring the VMPS

You can display information about the VMPS by using the show vmps privileged EXEC command. The
switch displays this information about the VMPS:
VMPS VQP Version The version of VQP used to communicate with the VMPS. The switch queries
Reconfirm Interval
Server Retry Count
VMPS domain server The IP address of the configured VLAN membership policy servers. The switch
VMPS Action
This is an example of output for the show vmps privileged EXEC command:
Switch# show vmps
VQP Client Status:
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VMPS VQP Version:
Reconfirm Interval: 60 min
Server Retry Count: 3
VMPS domain server: 172.20.128.86 (primary, current)
Reconfirmation status
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VMPS Action:

Troubleshooting Dynamic Port VLAN Membership

The VMPS shuts down a dynamic port under these conditions:
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To re-enable a disabled dynamic port, enter the no shutdown interface configuration command.
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the VMPS that is using VQP version 1.
The number of minutes the switch waits before reconfirming the
VLAN-to-MAC-address assignments.
The number of times VQP resends a query to the VMPS. If no response is
received after this many tries, the switch starts to query the secondary VMPS.
sends queries to the one marked current. The one marked primary is the primary
server.
The result of the most recent reconfirmation attempt. A reconfirmation attempt
can occur automatically when the reconfirmation interval expired, or you can
force it by entering the vmps reconfirm privileged EXEC command or its
Network Assistant or SNMP equivalent.
1
172.20.128.87
No Dynamic Port
The VMPS is in secure mode, and it does not allow the host to connect to the port. The VMPS shuts
down the port to prevent the host from connecting to the network.
More than 20 active hosts reside on a dynamic port.
Chapter 16 Configuring VLANs
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