The purpose of the Cisco Manager Connector is to support the Catalyst access series switches for monitoring purposes (2xxx,3xxx,4xxx, 8xxx, 9xxx, etc.) - basically the access layer switch series.

In case you've switches for datacenter & cloud purposes such as Nexus series or Cisco MDS or an aggregation MS series switch, the latter is supported commercially through a different connector.

In a nutshell, commercially we:

• support the catalyst family switches through one connector: the cisco manager connector

Then:

• The Nexus family have a different commercial connector
• The MDS family have a different commercial connector
• The ASR Aggregation Routers have a different commercial connector
• The NCS routers have a different commercial connector
• ...