Document Outline

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• About This Guide
  • Using This Guide
  • Structure of This Guide
  • Related Documents
  • Document Conventions
  • Typographical and Keystroke Conventions
• Introduction
  • 1.1 Overview
    • 1.1.1 The Management Agent
    • 1.1.2 In-Band vs. Out-of-Band
  • 1.2 Navigating Local Management Screens
  • 1.3 Local Management Requirements
  • 1.4 Local Management Screen Elements
  • 1.5 Local Management Keyboard Conventions
  • 1.6 Getting Help
• Local Management Requirements
  • 2.1 Management Terminal Setup
    • 2.1.1 Console Cable Connection
    • 2.1.2 Management Terminal Setup Parameters
  • 2.2 Telnet Connections
  • 2.3 Monitoring an Uninterruptible Power Supply
• Accessing Local Management
  • 3.1 Navigating Local Management Screens
    • 3.1.1 Selecting Local Management Menu Screen Items
    • 3.1.2 Exiting Local Management Screens
    • 3.1.3 Using the NEXT and PREVIOUS Commands
    • 3.1.4 Using the CLEAR COUNTERS Command
  • 3.2 Password Screen
  • 3.3 Main Menu Screen
  • 3.4 Module Selection Screen
    • 3.4.1 Selecting a Module
  • 3.5 Module Menu Screen
  • 3.6 Overview of Security Methods
    • 3.6.1 Host Access Control Authentication (HACA)
    • 3.6.2 802.1X Port Based Network Access Control
      • 3.6.2.1 Definitions of Terms and Abbreviations
      • 3.6.2.2 802.1X Security Overview
    • 3.6.3 MAC Authentication Overview
      • 3.6.3.1 Authentication Method Selection
      • 3.6.3.2 Authentication Method Sequence
      • 3.6.3.3 Concurrent Operation of 802.1X and MAC Authentication
    • 3.6.4 MAC Authentication Control
  • 3.7 Security Menu Screen
  • 3.8 Passwords Screen
    • 3.8.1 Setting the Module Login Password
  • 3.9 Radius Configuration Screen
    • 3.9.1 Setting the Last Resort Authentication
    • 3.9.2 Setting the Local and Remote Servers
  • 3.10 Name Services Configuration Screen
  • 3.11 System Authentication Configuration Screen
  • 3.12 EAP (Port) Configuration Screen
  • 3.13 EAP Statistics Menu Screen
    • 3.13.1 EAP Session Statistics Screen
    • 3.13.2 EAP Authenticator Statistics Screen
    • 3.13.3 EAP Diagnostic Statistics Screen
  • 3.14 MAC Port Configuration Screen
  • 3.15 MAC Supplicant Configuration Screen
• Chassis Menu Screens
  • 4.1 Chassis Menu Screen
  • 4.2 Chassis Configuration Screen
    • 4.2.1 Setting the IP Address
    • 4.2.2 Setting the Subnet Mask
    • 4.2.3 Setting the Chassis Date
    • 4.2.4 Setting the Chassis Time
    • 4.2.5 Setting a New Screen Refresh Time
    • 4.2.6 Setting the Screen Lockout Time
  • 4.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
  • 4.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
    • 4.4.1 Establishing Community Names
  • 4.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
    • 4.5.1 Configuring the Trap Table
  • 4.6 Chassis Environmental Information Screen
  • 4.7 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen (Chassis)
  • 4.8 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
    • 4.8.1 Changing Source and Destination Ports
  • 4.9 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
    • 4.9.1 Changing Source VLAN and Destination Ports
• Module Configuration Menu Screens
  • 5.1 Module Configuration Menu Screen
  • 5.2 General Configuration Screen
    • 5.2.1 Setting the IP Address
    • 5.2.2 Setting the Subnet Mask
    • 5.2.3 Setting the Default Gateway
    • 5.2.4 Setting the TFTP Gateway IP Address
    • 5.2.5 Setting the Module Name
    • 5.2.6 Setting the Module Date
    • 5.2.7 Setting the Module Time
    • 5.2.8 Entering a New Screen Refresh Time
    • 5.2.9 Setting the Screen Lockout Time
    • 5.2.10 Configuring the COM Port
      • 5.2.10.1 Changing the COM Port Application
    • 5.2.11 Clearing NVRAM
    • 5.2.12 Enabling/Disabling IP Fragmentation
  • 5.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
  • 5.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
    • 5.4.1 Establishing Community Names
  • 5.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
    • 5.5.1 Configuring the Trap Table
  • 5.6 Access Control List Screen
    • 5.6.1 Entering IP Addresses
    • 5.6.2 Enable/Disable ACL
  • 5.7 System Resources Information Screen
    • 5.7.1 Setting the Reset Peak Switch Utilization
  • 5.8 FLASH Download Configuration Screen
    • 5.8.1 Image File Download Using Runtime
    • 5.8.2 Configuration File Download Using TFTP
    • 5.8.3 Configuration File Upload Using TFTP
• Port Configuration Menu Screens
  • 6.1 Port Configuration Menu Screen
  • 6.2 Ethernet Interface Configuration Screen
  • 6.3 Ethernet Port Configuration Screen
    • 6.3.1 Selecting Field Settings
    • 6.3.2 Setting the Advertised Ability
  • 6.4 HSIM/VHSIM Configuration Screen
  • 6.5 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen
  • 6.6 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
    • 6.6.1 Changing Source and Destination Ports
  • 6.7 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
    • 6.7.1 Changing Source VLAN and Destination Ports
  • 6.8 Link Aggregation Screen (802.3ad Main Menu Screen)
    • 6.8.1 802.3ad Port Screen
      • 6.8.1.1 802.3ad Port Details Screen
      • 6.8.1.2 802.3ad Port Statistics Screen
    • 6.8.2 802.3ad Aggregator Screen
      • 6.8.2.1 802.3ad Aggregator Details Screen
    • 6.8.3 802.3ad System Screen
  • 6.9 Broadcast Suppression Configuration Screen
    • 6.9.1 Setting the Threshold
    • 6.9.2 Setting the Reset Peak
• 802.1 Configuration Menu Screens
  • 7.1 802.1 Configuration Menu Screen
  • 7.2 Spanning Tree Configuration Menu Screen
  • 7.3 Spanning Tree Configuration Screen
    • 7.3.1 Configuring a VLAN Spanning Tree
  • 7.4 Spanning Tree Port Configuration Screen
    • 7.4.1 Enabling/Disabling the Default Spanning Tree Ports
    • 7.4.2 Viewing Status of Spanning Tree Ports
  • 7.5 PVST Port Configuration Screen
• 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screens
  • 8.1 Summary of VLAN Local Management
    • 8.1.1 Preparing for VLAN Configuration
  • 8.2 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screen
  • 8.3 Static VLAN Configuration Screen
    • 8.3.1 Creating a Static VLAN
    • 8.3.2 Displaying the Current Static VLAN Port Egress List
    • 8.3.3 Renaming a Static VLAN
    • 8.3.4 Deleting a Static VLAN
    • 8.3.5 Paging Through the VLAN List
  • 8.4 Static VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
    • 8.4.1 Setting Egress Types on Ports
    • 8.4.2 Displaying the Next Group of Ports
  • 8.5 Current VLAN Configuration Screen
  • 8.6 Current VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
  • 8.7 VLAN Port Configuration Screen
    • 8.7.1 Changing the Port Mode
    • 8.7.2 Configuring the VLAN Ports
  • 8.8 VLAN Classification Configuration Screen
    • 8.8.1 Classification Precedence Rules
    • 8.8.2 Displaying the Current Classification Rule Assignments
    • 8.8.3 Assigning a Classification to a VID
    • 8.8.4 Deleting Line Items
  • 8.9 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
    • 8.9.1 Assigning Ports to a VID/Classification
• 802.1p Configuration Menu Screens
  • 9.1 802.1p Configuration Menu Screen
  • 9.2 Port Priority Configuration Screen
    • 9.2.1 Setting Switch Port Priority Port-by-Port
    • 9.2.2 Setting Switch Port Priority on All Ports
  • 9.3 Traffic Class Information Screen
  • 9.4 Traffic Class Configuration Screen
    • 9.4.1 Assigning the Traffic Class to Port Priority
  • 9.5 Transmit Queues Configuration Screen
    • 9.5.1 Setting the Current Queueing Mode
  • 9.6 Priority Classification Configuration Screen
    • 9.6.1 Classification Precedence Rules
    • 9.6.2 About the IP TOS Rewrite Feature
    • 9.6.3 Displaying the Current PID/Classification Assignments
    • 9.6.4 Assigning a Classification to a PID
    • 9.6.5 Deleting PID/Classification/Description Line Items
  • 9.7 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
    • 9.7.1 Assigning Ports to a PID/Classification
    • 9.7.2 Example, Prioritizing Traffic According to Classification Rule
      • 9.7.2.1 Solving the Problem
  • 9.8 Rate Limiting Configuration Screen
    • 9.8.1 Configuring a Port
    • 9.8.2 Changing/Deleting Port Line Items
    • 9.8.3 More About Rate Limiting
• Layer 3 Extensions Menu Screens
  • 10.1 Layer 3 Extensions Menu Screen
  • 10.2 IGMP/VLAN Configuration Screen
    • 10.2.1 IGMP/VLAN Configuration Procedure
• Module Statistics Menu Screens
  • 11.1 Module Statistics Menu Screen
  • 11.2 Switch Statistics Screen
  • 11.3 Interface Statistics Screen
    • 11.3.1 Displaying Interface Statistics
  • 11.4 RMON Statistics Screen
    • 11.4.1 Displaying RMON Statistics
  • 11.5 Chassis Environmental Statistics Configuration Screen
• Network Tools Screens
  • 12.1 Network Tools
  • 12.2 Built-in Commands
  • 12.3 Example, Effects of Aging Time on Dynamic Egress
  • 12.4 Example, Using Dynamic Egress to Control Traffic
  • 12.5 Special Commands
• VLAN Operation and Network Applications
  • 13.1 Defining VLANs
  • 13.2 Types of VLANs
    • 13.2.1 802.1Q VLANs
    • 13.2.2 Other VLAN Strategies
  • 13.3 Benefits and Restrictions
  • 13.4 VLAN Terms
  • 13.5 VLAN Operation
    • 13.5.1 Description
    • 13.5.2 VLAN Components
  • 13.6 Configuration Process
    • 13.6.1 Defining a VLAN
    • 13.6.2 Classifying Frames to a VLAN
    • 13.6.3 Customizing the VLAN Forwarding List
  • 13.7 VLAN Switch Operation
    • 13.7.1 Receiving Frames from VLAN Ports
    • 13.7.2 Forwarding Decisions
      • 13.7.2.1 Broadcasts, Multicasts, and Unknown Unicasts
      • 13.7.2.2 Known Unicasts
  • 13.8 VLAN Configuration
    • 13.8.1 Managing the Switch
    • 13.8.2 Switch Without VLANs
    • 13.8.3 Switch with VLANs
  • 13.9 Summary of VLAN Local Management
    • 13.9.1 Preparing for VLAN Configuration
  • 13.10 Quick VLAN Walkthrough
  • 13.11 Examples
  • 13.12 Example 1, Single Switch Operation
    • 13.12.1 Solving the Problem
    • 13.12.2 Frame Handling
  • 13.13 Example 2, VLANs Across Multiple Switches
    • 13.13.1 Solving the Problem
    • 13.13.2 Frame Handling
  • 13.14 Example 3, Filtering Traffic According to a Layer 4 Classification Rule
    • 13.14.1 Solving the Problem
  • 13.15 Example 4, Securing Sensitive Information According to Subnet
    • 13.15.1 Solving the Problem
  • 13.16 Example 5, Using Dynamic Egress to Control Traffic
  • 13.17 Example 6, Locking a MAC Address to a Port Using Classification Rules
    • 13.17.1 Solving the Problem
• Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)
  • A.1 Operation
  • A.2 How It Works
• About IGMP
  • B.1 IGMP Overview
  • B.2 Supported Features and Functions
  • B.3 Detecting Multicast Routers
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