Scale Management for 300 Series

Dears,
          I've got a scale design using the 300 Series (up to 1800 switch), but I can't a management support for changing configuration concurrently on all switches, neither the LMS nor the HP openview...
But I know the the 300 series has a large MIB libarary which  can be used with HP openview "Network driver studio"...Does any one have an Idea or a document that can help?
I need a solution for configuration management of all switches, not switch by switch...Thanks

The 300-series switches have numerous options by way of managing them. A few of them related to mass management is discussed here.
From an SNMP perspective, the switches are fully instrumented. This means that pretty much anything you can configure, view, or troubleshoot on the switches can be done through SNMP as well. We have published all the MIBs that allow you to do this on cisco.com. You can take these MIBs and compile them into an standards-based SNMP Manageemnt station like Silver Creek, Nagios, Openview, etc. This allows you to manage them en-masse.
Another method of mass management is using DHCP Autoconfiguration. The switches have a text-based config file so you can edit them through a standard text editor and save as a new file. In a typical deployment, there are lots of similarity in the configuration between the different switches. So, and administrator would configure a switch using the GUI. They would then edit the config with a text editor to make the changes for a second switch, and save it as a different config name. Therefore you can easily replicate a config for multiple switches. Now, using DHCP Autonconfiguration, you can get all of these switches upgraded all in one go. The way this works is as follows. When the switch boots, it gets its IP address from the DHCP server. The DHCP Server also passes the TFTP server and filename where the switch can download its config from. It uses DHCP Options 66 and 67 to do this.
We will also support a CLI delivered through a future firmware release which will be available through a free firmware download from Cisco.com.
Thanks,
Ivor

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