Call Home; Online Diagnostics; Switch Management; Simple Network Management Protocol - Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Configuration Manual

Overview

Call Home

The Call Home feature continuously monitors hardware and software components to provide e-mail-based
notification of critical system events. A versatile range of message formats is available for optimal compatibility
with pager services, standard e-mail, and XML-based automated parsing applications. The feature offers alert
grouping capabilities and customizable destination profiles. This feature can be used, for example, to directly
page a network support engineer, send an e-mail message to a network operations center (NOC), and employ
Cisco AutoNotify services to directly generate a case with the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC). This
feature is a step toward autonomous system operation, which enables networking devices to inform IT when
a problem occurs and helps to ensure that the problem is resolved quickly.

Online Diagnostics

Cisco generic online diagnostics (GOLD) is a suite of diagnostic facilities to verify that hardware and internal
data paths are operating as designed. Boot-time diagnostics, continuous monitoring, and on-demand and
scheduled tests are part of the Cisco GOLD feature set. GOLD allows rapid fault isolation and continuous
system monitoring.

Switch Management

Simple Network Management Protocol

Cisco NX-OS is compliant with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) version 1, version 2, and
version 3. A full set of Management Information Bases (MIBs) is supported.

Role-Based Access Control

With role-based access control (RBAC), you can limit access to switch operations by assigning roles to users.
Administrators can customize access and restrict it to the users who require it.

Configuration Methods

Configuring with CLI, XML Management Interface, or SNMP

You can configure Cisco Nexus devices using the command-line interface (CLI), the XML management
interface over SSH, or SNMP as follows:
• CLI —You can configure switches using the CLI from an SSH session, a Telnet session, or the console
• XML Management Interface over SSH—You can configure switches using the XML management
• SNMP—SNMP allows you to configure switches using Management Information Bases (MIBs).
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port. SSH provides a secure connection to the device.
interface, which is a programming interface based on the NETCONF protocol that complements the
CLI functionality. For more information, see the Cisco NX-OS XML Interfaces User Guide.
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