Chapter 4 Planning And Creating Communities; Planning A Community; Candidate And Member Characteristics - Cisco Network Assistant Getting Started Manual

Planning and Creating Communities
This chapter provides the concepts and procedures for planning and creating communities by using
Network Assistant. It contains these sections:
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For information about using Network Assistant to configure communities, see the online help.

Planning a Community

This section describes the guidelines, requirements, and caveats that you should understand before you
create a community.

Candidate and Member Characteristics

Candidates are network devices that have IP addresses but that have not been added to a community.
Members are network devices that have been added to a community.
To join a community, a candidate must meet these requirements:
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It has an IP address.
It has HTTP or HTTPS enabled on the default ports.
You cannot add clusters to a community. You can add cluster members individually.
If you add a cluster command device to a community, the other members of the cluster are not
added automatically. To manage the cluster members, you must add them individually to the
community.
If you add a Catalyst 3750 switch stack master to a community, the individual stack members
are automatically added to the community, even though the stack members do not appear in the
Modify Community or Discover windows. However, when you connect to the community, the
stack members do appear in the Front Panel and Topology views.
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