Monitoring Features - Cisco Catalyst 3120 Software Manual

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Monitoring Features

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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 for HP Software Configuration Guide
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Fallback bridging for forwarding non-IP traffic between two or more VLANs (requires the IP
services feature set)
Static IP routing for manually building a routing table of network path information
Equal-cost routing for load-balancing and redundancy
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) and ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) for using
router advertisement and router solicitation messages to discover the addresses of routers on directly
attached subnets
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) for multicast routing within the network, allowing for
devices in the network to receive the multicast feed requested and for switches not participating in
the multicast to be pruned. Includes support for PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM), PIM dense mode
(PIM-DM), and PIM sparse-dense mode (requires the IP services feature set)
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) for connecting multiple PIM-SM domains (requires
the IP services feature set)
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) tunneling for interconnecting two
multicast-enabled networks across nonmulticast networks (requires the IP services feature set)
DHCP relay for forwarding UDP broadcasts, including IP address requests, from DHCP clients
IPv6 unicast routing capability for forwarding IPv6 traffic through configured interfaces (requires
the advanced IP services feature set)
Support for EIGRP IPv6, which utilizes IPv6 transport, communicates with IPv6 peers, and
advertises IPv6 routes
IP unicast reverse path forwarding (unicast RPF) for confirming source packet IP addresses.
Nonstop forwarding (NSF) awareness to enable the Layer 3 switch to continue forwarding packets
from an NSF-capable neighboring router when the primary route processor (RP) is failing and the
backup RP is taking over, or when the primary RP is manually reloaded for a nondisruptive software
upgrade (requires the IP services feature set)
NSF-capable routing for OSPF and EIGRP that allows the switch to rebuild routing tables based on
information from NSF-aware and NSF-capable neighbors
Switch LEDs that provide port-, switch-, and stack-level status on switches
MAC address notification traps and RADIUS accounting for tracking users on a network by storing
the MAC addresses that the switch has learned or removed
Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Remote SPAN (RSPAN) for traffic monitoring on any port or
VLAN
SPAN and RSPAN support of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to monitor, repel, and report
network security violations
Four groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) of embedded RMON agents for network
monitoring and traffic analysis
Syslog facility for logging system messages about authentication or authorization errors, resource
issues, and time-out events
Layer 2 traceroute to identify the physical path that a packet takes from a source device to a
destination device
Chapter 1 Overview
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