Chapter 4      Managing Devices

Device Management

Setting Up Catalyst 6000 Series Devices

For Catalyst 6000 Series devices, configure the following. If your Catalyst 6000 

device has a Content Switching Module (CSM), see 

Setting Up Content Switching 

Modules (CSM 3.x or Later), page 4 17

 for more configuration tasks. If your 

Catalyst 6000 device has an SSL Services Modules, see 

Setting Up Secure Socket 

Layer (SSL) Services Modules, page 4 18

 for more configuration tasks.

Task

Procedure

1. Upgrade your 

Visit the Software Center at Cisco.com for software downloads.

network device 

software to the 

supported versions.

2. Verify connectivity 

From the Administration tab, select Diagnostics, then Connectivity.Type 

from the Hosting 

the device name or IP address and click Ping.

Solution Engine to the 

devices you want to 

manage.

3. Enable SNMP.

Use the IOS device CLI to enable the SNMP server. For example, 

snmp server community public ro

4. Enable Telnet. 

Use the IOS device CLI to enable Telnet. For example, 

telnet   

Note

The SNMP Server Host must be configured on the device.

5. (Optional) Set the 

On the IOS devices, enter configuration mode and use the following 

system name, contact, 

commands.

and location variables.

To set the system name, use the hostname name command. For 

example, set hostname HSE R1.

To set the system contact, use the snmp contact contact command.

To set the location, use the snmp location location command.

6. (Optional) Configure  Add device names and IP addresses into the DNS server. See your DNS 

DNS server.

server documentation for instructions.

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