Driver Support Document

Cisco switches, Catalyst 2980, 2980G-A, 65xx OS version 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x

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SYSOID Mapping
SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.5.51 wsc2980gasysID 5.5(21), 6.4(9), 7.6(12), 8.4(6)
 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.5.44 wsc6509 8.3(3)
 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.5.45 wsc6506, wsc6506-E 8.4(6)
 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.5.49 wsc2980gsysID 5.5(21), 6.4(9), 7.6(12), 8.4(6)

Driver Features Support Grid

Driver FeaturesAccess Methods
(X signifies feature support)CLISNMPTFTPCLI+TFTPSNMP+TFTPFTPCLI+FTPSNMP+FTPCLI+SFTPSCPCLI+SCPSNMP+SCPHTTP/HTTPS
X Driver Discovery release notes X X                      
X General Access  
(CLI protocols: telnet, ssh1, ssh2, console)
Supports SecurID
X     X                  
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration release notes X     X                  
  Retrieve Startup Configuration                            
  Retrieve Binary Configuration                            
X Device information parsing  
X Enhanced Layer2 Basic IP information parsing  
X Configuration Deployment to Running         X                  
  Configuration Deployment to Startup                            
  Binary Configuration Deployment                            
Diagnostics
X Routing Table   X                        
X OSPF Neighbors   X                        
X Interfaces   X                        
X Modules and Inventory   X                        
  Flash Storage Space                            
X File System   X                        
X Uptime   X X                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
  Duplex Parsing                            
X Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
X Software Center         X                  
X Software Image Synchronization         X                  
X Password Management  
(Can modify: limited password, full password, read-only community strings, read/write community strings)
X                        
X Syslog Configuration and Change Detection   Syslog patterns X                        
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
Bulk deploy available
X                        
X ACL Parsing  
X ACL Provisioning release notes X                        
X VLAN Provisioning   X                        
  Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

ACL Parsing

Release Notes

Permit lists

CatOS supports access lists in the form of QoS lists and permit lists. Versions 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x of CatOS only supports permit lists. Permit lists cannot be numbered or named. As a result, permit lists are treated as a single entity by the driver.

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Retrieve Running Configuration

Release Notes

Get the whole configuration

Many Cisco devices support a 'show config all' command that includes all default settings in the returned configuration. To retrieve this configuration, set the device access variable "showConfigAll" to "true". Note that transport protocols do not support this argument, only the CLI running configuration will be altered, which may cause a config change when switching between protocols.

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Driver Discovery

Release Notes

More prompt causes an unexpected disconnection

Discovery tasks for Javascript drivers handle More prompts by using timeouts, which can cause problems with the third-party SSH client code, which interprets the timeout as a disconnection. There are two options to work around the problem. Setting the RCX option [<option name="Driver/Discovery/UsePollRead">true</option>] in site_options.rcx will effect the workaround for all affected devices. Alternatively, it could be applied to a single device by setting the device access variable "PollRead" to "true".

Wakeup Ctrl-U character can cause discovery to fail

Discovery tasks for Javascript drivers use wakeup characters are sent during device connection, to ensure that the device is responding. Normally, these characters do not echo to the console, but some devices may echo them. In this case, this causes the prompt detection phase to fail, which in turn can cause More prompts to not be handled properly, and discovery may fail. If these characters are echoed from the device [check the session log to see this], then set the device access variable "skip_ctrl_u" to skip the sending of the wakeup characters. Note that setting this option on a previously working device could cause discovery tasks to fail, but it only affects CLI discovery. SNMP discovery is unaffected.

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Syslog Triggering

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