Monitoring The Vmps; Configuration Example For Vmps; Example: Vmps Configuration - Cisco Catalyst 2960 series 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—The number of minutes the switch waits before reconfirming the
• Server Retry Count—The number of times VQP resends a query to the VMPS. If no response is received
• VMPS domain server—The IP address of the configured VLAN membership policy servers. The switch
• VMPS Action—The result of the most recent reconfirmation attempt. A reconfirmation attempt can
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:

Configuration Example for VMPS

Example: VMPS Configuration

This network has a VMPS server switch and VMPS client switches with dynamic-access ports with this
configuration:
• The VMPS server and the VMPS client are separate switches.
• The Catalyst 6500 series Switch A is the primary VMPS server.
• The Catalyst 6500 series Switch C and Switch J are secondary VMPS servers.
• End stations are connected to the clients, Switch B and Switch I.
• The database configuration file is stored on the TFTP server with the IP address 172.20.22.7.
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the VMPS that is using VQP Version 1.
VLAN-to-MAC-address assignments.
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.
occur automatically when the reconfirmation interval expires, or you can force it by entering the vmps
reconfirm privileged EXEC command or its Network Assistant or SNMP equivalent.
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172.20.128.87
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Catalyst 2960-X Switch VLAN Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)EX

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