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Cisco MGX 8800/8900 Series Software Configuration Guide
Release 5.1, Part Number OL-6482-01, Rev. A0, January 25, 2005
Chapter 1 Preparing for Configuration
Collecting Information
Administrator Data
In most cases, more than one administrator will manage the switch. The MGX switches support multiple
administrators and several different administration levels. As part of the planning process, you might
identify who will manage the switch and at what level. You can learn more about managing
administrators by reading the “Configuring User Access” section in Chapter 2, “Configuring General
Switch Features.”
Unique Device Identifier
Cisco products have an electronically retrievable identifier. This identifier is called the Unique Device
Identifier (UDI) and consists of the Product Identifier (PID), the Version Identifier (VID), and the
hardware Serial Number (SN). The UDI is programmed at the factory and is stored in non-volatile
memory.
The UDI is used to identify specific equipment for inventory management, asset management,
entitlement, business operations management, network implementation, and network management.
In network management, the UDI enables network administrators to easily track specific components in
their network.
You can display the UDI by issuing the show inventory command from the command line interface
(CLI). The show inventory command displays the information shown in Table 1-5.
The following example shows the show inventory command and its output:
n19.7.PXM.a > show inventory
NAME: "1" , DESCR: "Cisco MGX8850, 32 Slot Chassis"
PID: MGX8850 , VID: N/A, SN: -----
NAME: "" , DESCR: "Cisco MGX8850 Backplane"
PID: MGX8850 , VID: BK1, SN: SAA02390088
NAME: "1" , DESCR: "Route Processor Module PR - 256 Meg SRAM"
PID: MGX-RPM-PR-256 , VID: N/A, SN: SBK050206YK
NAME: "3" , DESCR: "Double-height ATM SM, 1 OC-48c/STM-16"
PID: AXSM-1-2488 , VID: N/A, SN: SAK0334000Q
Table 1-5 Show Inventory Command Display Output
Field Description
NAME The front or backcard slot number for the card, in the range 1-32. Where a card is full
height, the card slot number used is that of the lower slot.
DESCR The description of the component as defined by Cisco.
For example, “Cisco MGX8850, 32 Slot chassis”.
PID The product identifier – the model name of the device as defined by Cisco.
For example, “MGX8850” or “AXSM-4-622”.
VID The version identifier – the hardware version number defined by Cisco.
For example, “000”.
SN The hardware serial number inscribed at the factory.
For example, “SN1234567890”.