[c-nsp] Catalyst Blade Switch 3012 inband management?

[matthew zeier]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Eric Girard wrote:

> Peter,
> 	I'm not familiar with the IBM, but when I deploy the 3x20 for the  
> HP chassis, I just disable to the Fa0 port to cut it off from the HP  
> Onboard Administrator, and then proceed to configure it as a  
> 'regular' switch with a management VLAN that comes in on the regular  
> uplinks to the rest of the network.  Hope that helps.

What do you gain from this?

I did that with the first switch but don't anymore.  fa0 sits on NMS  
along with the OA.  Means I don't need to carry the NMS Vlan on the  
3x20.

(though I do wish HP/Cisco would integrate the serial console like  
HP's done with their own switches)