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Chapter 3 Getting Started with CMS
Menus and Toolbar
Menus and Toolbar
The configuration and monitoring options for configuring switches and switch clusters are available
from menus and a toolbar.
Menu Bar
The menu bar provides the complete list of options for managing a single switch and switch cluster.
Options displayed from the menu bar can vary:
Note The menu-bar options on a Catalyst 2950 switch change depending on whether the switch is running the
enhanced software image (EI) or the standard image (SI). The footnotes in Table 3-11 list the options
available if the switch is running the EI.
• Access modes affect the availability of features from CMS. The footnotes in Table 3-11 describe the
availability of an option based on your access mode in CMS: read-only (access level 1–14) and
read-write (access level 15). For more information about how access modes affect CMS, see the
“Access Modes in CMS” section on page 3-29.
• The option for enabling a command switch is only available from a CMS session launched from a
command-capable switch.
• Cluster management tasks, such as upgrading the software of groups of switches, are available only
from a CMS session launched from a command switch.
• If you launch CMS from a specific switch, the menu bar displays the features supported only by that
switch.
• If you launch CMS from a command switch, the menu bar displays the features supported on the
switches in the cluster, with these exceptions:
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If the command switch is a Layer 3 switch, such as a Catalyst 3550 switch, the menu bar
displays the features of all Layer 3 and Layer 2 switches in the cluster.
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If the command switch is a Layer 2 switch, such as a Catalyst 2950 or Catalyst 3500 XL switch,
the menu bar displays the features of all Layer 2 switches in the cluster. The menu bar does not
display Layer 3 features even if the cluster has Catalyst 3550 Layer 3 member switches.
