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Cisco EnergyWise Configuration Guide
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Preface
Audience
This guide is for the networking professional managing the Cisco network devices.
The term switch refers to Catalyst switches and other Cisco network devices, such as routers and access
points.
Purpose
This document describes how to configure Cisco EnergyWise in your network.
This guide does not describe how to install your network device. For information, see the hardware
installation guide for your device.
For information about the Cisco IOS Release 12.2 commands, see the Cisco IOS documentation set on
Cisco.com.
This guide does not provide detailed information on the GUIs for the embedded device manager or for
Cisco Network Assistant (hereafter referred to as Network Assistant) that you can use to manage the
switch. However, the concepts in this guide are applicable for the GUI user. For information about the
device manager, see the switch online help. For information about Network Assistant, see Getting
Started with Cisco Network Assistant, available on Cisco.com.
This document does not provide specific information for the management application programming
interface (API)- and end-point software development kit (SDK). For information, see the Cisco
EnergyWise Documentation Roadmap, Cisco EnergyWise Partner Development Guide, Cisco
EnergyWise Programmer Reference Guide for the Management API, and the Cisco EnergyWise
Programmer Reference Guide for the End Point SDK on the Cisco Developer Network:
http://developer.cisco.com/web/esdk/home.
For documentation updates, see the release notes for this release.
Conventions
This publication uses these conventions to convey instructions and information:
For command descriptions
• Commands and keywords are in boldface text.
• Arguments for which you supply values are in italic.
