Chapter 4      Managing Devices

Device Management

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Device Setup Overview

Device Type

Tasks

All

Upgrade your network device software to the 

supported versions.

Verify connectivity from the Hosting Solution Engine 

to the devices you want to manage.

Enable Simple Network Management Protocol 

(SNMP) on the devices you want to manage.

Optional

Enable Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP).

1

Set unique sysName variable.

Configure DNS server.

2

1. CDP discovery is now disabled in order to increase performance of the Hosting Solution Engine. 

LocalDirector, PIX Firewall, and Content Services Switch must be entered as seed devices 

because they do not support CDP. If you want to use CDP discovery, use Devices > Device 

Manager >SNMP Settings to enable CDP.

2. The Hosting Solution Engine has a local DNS cache that reduces the number of hits on 

other DNS servers in the network and repeated name lookups.

This section describes both required and optional setup tasks for:

Setting Up Routers, page 4 12

Setting Up Switches, page 4 13

Setting Up Catalyst 6000 Series Devices, page 4 16

Setting Up LocalDirector, page 4 18

Setting Up PIX Firewall Devices, page 4 20

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