Debugging, Management, and System Testing

Debugging, Management, and
System Testing
Modern switches are usually part of a large, possibly integrated network topology. As such, two
different management techniques need to be established. First, administrators need to be able to
view the complete network, taking a holistic approach to managing the environment. The second
technique relates to managing individual switches.
For the first problem, Cisco designed the Cisco Cluster Management Suite, and all modern
switches are enabled with the correct processes to support this centralized management. For the
second problem, we have the regular range of show commands, supplemented by a process
called debugging. Read on, MacDuff.