User's Manual

CHAPTER

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Getting Started with CMS

This chapter provides these topics about the Cluster Management Suite (CMS) software:

• Features, page 3-2

• Front Panel View, page 3-4

• Topology View, page 3-10

• Menus and Toolbar, page 3-15

• Interaction Modes, page 3-25

• Wizards, page 3-26

• Online Help, page 3-26

• CMS Window Components, page 3-28

• Accessing CMS, page 3-30

• Verifying Your Changes, page 3-32

• Saving Your Configuration, page 3-33

• Restoring Your Configuration, page 3-33

• CMS Preferences, page 3-33

• Using Different Versions of CMS, page 3-34

• Where to Go Next, page 3-34

Note • For system requirements and for browser and Java plug-in configuration procedures, refer to the

release notes.

• For procedures for using CMS, refer to the online help.

Note This chapter describes CMS on the Catalyst 2950 and Catalyst 2950 LRE switches. Refer to the

appropriate switch documentation for descriptions of the web-based management software used on other

Catalyst switches.