Cisco Systems 4500 Switch User Manual


 
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Catalyst 4500 Series Switches Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
System Architecture
Cisco Group Management Protocol support standards-based and Cisco
technology-enhanced efficient multimedia networking.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
CiscoWorks, which can manage critical network characteristics such as
availability, responsiveness, resilience, and security.
Cisco NetFlow Services. The Cisco NetFlow Services Card for the
Supervisor Engine IV and V support statistics capture in hardware for
flow-based and VLAN-based statistics monitoring. This data can be
exported, collected, and analyzed for virus detection and mitigation,
network-traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning,
network monitoring, and data-mining capabilities. Cisco NetFlow Services is
integral to the Supervisor Engine V-10GE.
Switching Traffic Flow
Figure 1-23 shows switching traffic flow through the system.