6500 VSS Chassis in unknown state

Hi,
we have 6500 chassises in our set up. But using CWLMS 4.0 , we are unable to manage VSS feature of 6500.Also
User tracking for Nexus 7K Switches subnets are not working.
Please guide.
Rgrds,
Soumik.

Hi,
Would you mind posting some more information about the VSS problem. (Exact steps or maybe a screenshot of what you are doing). I didn't have any major issues configuring Cisco 6500 VSS in LMS or NCS. Minor ones were some SNMP MIBs which you can simply ignore.
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