We do not have any Cat5500s in our network, but do have a little more than
1000 Cat5000s with about 200 VLANs on them.  NetView only shows us an IP
topology of the network.  We are using Cisco's VLAN Director and ATM
Director tools to view the "switched topology" of the network.  These tools
have been integrated in CiscoWorks 2000 under the CWSI Campus component.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Ken Guettler [SMTP:Ken.Guettler AT MARYVILLE DOT COM]
        Sent:   Friday, October 23, 1998 10:49
        To:     NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
        Subject:        Cisco Catalyst 5500 Switches and NetView V4.1

        I have a customer with NetView v4.12 who has several Cisco 5500
switches in
        a VLAN configuration.  NetView
        is not handling the discovery and mapping of this environment well
at all,
        Is this an unsupported environment with
        NetView V4?  Is it fixed in NetView v5?   Any one with this
environment have
        comments on using NetView to manage the
        5500s?

        Thank you,


        Ken

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