Cat 2900 switch

[courtneyann]

Hello,
If I'm running cisco switches with HP switches and 3Com switches, will there be any problems? Does Cisco have their own language that it won't talk or operate with other switches? Can I run a management program such as Cisco Works to monitor all of the switches?
Thanks.

 

[kwtso]

CiscoWorks can only manage Cisco products. You may use HP Openview to monitor your network. Actually, different vendors will implement their own propiertary protocols in some features like link aggregation, spanning-tree fast recovery, trunking, etc. So don't expect everything work in a mixed vendor environment.