After some searching, found this capability exists in both CNR 6.3.3 and Cisco Prime IP Express 8.x In CNR 6.3, on the Add Reservation screen, its under the Advanced tab. Device-name and Description can be added. Wish I'd have opened that "+" box. In Cisco Prime IP Express 8.x the same fields are available to populate.
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Thanks for the reply, Chris. Often, the equipment doesn't participate in our DNS. Vendor just needs an IP address. May or may not even DHCP to get it. We wish to create the reservation in DHCP, so it doesn't "get stepped on" down the road. And, we wish to document the assignment in DHCP. Maybe the Prime IP Express team will have some ideas
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How are enterprise customers keeping track of DHCP Lease Reservations in terms of a description for the device for which the reservation has been created? In an enterprise, healthcare environment, we make reservations for say - medical vendor equipment. Like many organizations, we have long used an access database containing entries with MAC, IP, description of the device, date created, etc. CNR customers since versions 2.0 through 6.3.3. Presently migrating to Prime IP Express 8.2. We would like to get rid of our access database/tables and rely exclusively upon features/functions in 8.2. As best I can tell, there's no facility to provide a description - in addition to MAC, IP address, lookup key - for a given reservation. Guessing it isn't in the RFCs. Do other enterprise customers have this requirement? Thoughts on how they're handling it? Maintain separate information sources in addition to DDI system itself?
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Does anyone have any notes/tips on how to Configure ACS 5.x so LMS 4 users can authenticate via TACACS+? I have ACS 5.x setup and authenticating to Active Directory. Have changed the LMS 4.x Authentication Module to TACACS+. Have gotten past the user / password problem by configuring a local user in LMS 4.x. Now, am hitting the Default rule in ACS and Shell Profile is deny access. Doesn't look like I'm hitting my LMS 4.x Profile.
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Just to clarify Carlo, you're saying that I use speed 1000 on the FEX port configuration, so that it recognizes the GLC-T? And I can leave duplex (or set it) to auto on the FEX, and then the server NIC settings can stay at AUTO/AUTO? Yesterday, I did add the speed 1000 command to the FEX ports, left the FEX port duplex to whatever the default is, and configured a laptop w/a 1 Gig NIC to be AUTO/AUTO. Connected and did a large FTP (2Gig). It transfered very fast - comparable to baseline - and there were no errors on the FEX port counters. So, I was thinking it would be ok to leave the servers at AUTO/AUTO, even though the FEX port speed was 1000.
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First time using GLC-T's in a FEX 2232PP off of 5548 running 5.0(3)N1(1b). Was getting "sfpInvalid" on show int status. Nice engineer explained I had to remove the GLC-T's, configure the interface E101/1/1 to speed 1000 in order for the 5548/FEX to recognize the GLC-T. That worked, but also led to the recommendation that I hard-code the server NICs to 1000/full rather than auto/auto - their present NIC setting. Not opposed to doing that, except that I am transitioning servers from a temporary 3560G in that same rack to FEX. Since they're all auto/auto (the 3560G ports are as well), I will need change management to reconfigure NICs on each. I'm an advocate of making sure NIC and switch port match exactly, but have used AUTO/AUTO on switch and server NIC in recent years w/out problems. Anyone know if there's a way to have GLC-T's recognized by the FEX 2233PP, but still have AUTO/AUTO? It will help me w/my migration.
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