IS Prime DCNM support for 2960 switches

[msangiliraj]

Hi All,

There is a requirement for a NMS solution, Solution must have a single dashboard

but in the netwroks i am having 2960s, N2K, N5K, N7K, in order to mange this data-center network

do I need to quoted for Cisco LMS and DCNM or LMS is enough

[Marvin Rhoads]

The most comprehensive single product solution for those set of devices would be LMS. It does have limitations in managing the User Tracking, VLAN (provisioning primarily) and SAN aspects of the data center switches. Note Nexus 2ks are not separately managed, but rather viewed as an integral part of their controlling 7k or 5k.

LMS Catalyst 2960 support described here.

LMS Nexus support described here.

DCNM is not really designed for IOS-based devices. It has some very limited support for the Catalyst 6500 but other than that it is primarily focued on the NX-OS-based data center products. See the DCNM Release Compatibility Matrix for more details. (And add the DCNM 6.1 release notes updates.)

[Leo Laohoo]

DCNM is geared for Nexus.

For 2960, you should be looking at Cisco Prime Infrastructure (CPI) 1.2 (and later).  CPI 2.0 will be coming out sometime this year.

CPI 1.X comes in two flavours:  Hardware or VM.

CPI 2.0 will only be VM. 

[sbhadrav@cisco.com]

No, DCNM cannot manage non-data center products.
The more general Cisco product for management of switches and routers would be Prime Infrastructure.
The list of compatible products is in the compatibility matrix.please check below link.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-data-center-network-manager/products-device-support-tables-list.html