Pre-Installation Setup for Cisco Switch > Before You Start Cisco Switch Data Collection
  
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Before You Start Cisco Switch Data Collection
The Data Collector uses SMI-S to communicate with the Cisco switches to gather data. To ensure that the SMI-S provider is running, be sure to enable the Common Information Model (CIM) Server on the switch using the following CLI commands:
cimserver status
To execute this command, you need to be in enable mode.
show cimserver
 
config t
This puts you into configuration mode.
cimserver enable
Once you are in configuration mode, this command turns on the SMI-S provider.
 
 
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