Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 50)

Chapter 2: Starting a Management Session
50 Section I: Basic Operations
Also important to remote management is what’s referred to as the local
interface. A switch’s CPU can monitor only one local subnet for remote
management packets at a time. You must specify the local subnet on the
switch from where your remote management station is reaching the unit.
You do that by designating the subnet’s interface as the local interface.
This instructs the switch’s management software to monitor the traffic on
that subnet for the remote management packets.
If the switch is an isolated unit or the master switch of an enhanced stack,
you must create at least one interface on the device. You create the
interface on the local subnet and VLAN through which your management
workstation is reaching the device. Furthermore, you must designate the
interface as the local interface. To start a remote management session,
you specify the IP address of the local interface as the switch’s IP
address.
The slave switches of a stack are handled differently. If you use the
Default_VLAN (VID 1) as the common VLAN to interconnect the switches
of the stack, you do not need to add an interface to the VLAN on the slave
switches. However, if you use any other VLAN as the common VLAN, then
you must add a routing interface to it on the slave switches, but you do not
have to designate it as the local interface.
Here are the general steps to configuring an isolated AT-9400 Series
switch for remote management:
1. Create a routing interface on the local subnet and VLAN from where
your remote management station reaches the switch.
2. Designate the interface as the local interface so the switch monitors
the subnet for the management packets.
3. To start a remote management session using a Telnet client, a web
browser, or an SNMP program, specify the IP address of the switch’s
local interface.
Here are the general steps to configuring an AT-9400 Series master
switch of an enhanced stack for remote management:
1. Create a routing interface on the local subnet and VLAN that
interconnects the switches in the stack and from where your remote
management station is reaching the master switch.
2. Designate the interface as the local interface so the master switch
monitors the subnet for the management packets.
3. To start a remote management session on the enhanced stack using a
Telnet client, a web browser, or an SNMP program, specify the IP
address of the local interface on the master switch.