Document Outline

• Accessing the switch
  • Introduction
  • Additional references
  • Typographical conventions
  • Management Network
    • Connecting through the console port
    • Connecting through Telnet
    • Connecting through Secure Shell
  • Using the command line interfaces
    • Configuring an IP interface
  • Using the Browser-based Interface
  • Using Simple Network Management Protocol
    • SNMP v1.0
    • SNMP v3.0
    • Default configuration
    • User configuration
    • View based configurations
      • CLI user equivalent
      • CLI oper equivalent
    • Configuring SNMP trap hosts
      • SNMPv1 trap host
      • SNMPv2 trap host configuration
      • SNMPv3 trap host configuration
  • Secure access to the switch
    • Setting allowable source IP address ranges
      • Configuring an IP address range for the management network
    • RADIUS authentication and authorization
      • How RADIUS authentication works
      • Configuring RADIUS on the switch (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring RADIUS on the switch (BBI example)
      • RADIUS authentication features
      • User accounts for RADIUS users
      • RADIUS attributes for user privileges
    • TACACS+ authentication
      • How TACACS+ authentication works
      • TACACS+ authentication features
      • Authorization
      • Accounting
      • Configuring TACACS+ authentication on the switch (AOS CLI ex
      • Configuring TACACS+ authentication on the switch (BBI exampl
    • Secure Shell and Secure Copy
      • Configuring SSH and SCP features (AOS CLI example)
        • Enabling or disabling SSH
        • Enabling or disabling SCP apply and save
        • Configuring the SCP administrator password
      • Using SSH and SCP client commands
        • Logging in to the switch
        • Downloading configuration from the switch using SCP
        • Uploading configuration to the switch using SCP
        • Applying and saving configuration
      • SSH and SCP encryption of management messages
      • Generating RSA host and server keys for SSH access
      • SSH/SCP integration with RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication
  • User access control
    • Setting up user IDs
• Ports and trunking
  • Introduction
  • Ports on the switch
  • Port trunk groups
    • Statistical load distribution
    • Built-in fault tolerance
  • Before you configure trunks
  • Trunk group configuration rules
  • Port trunking example
    • Configuring trunk groups (AOS CLI example)
    • Configuring trunk groups (BBI example)
  • Configurable Trunk Hash algorithm
  • Link Aggregation Control Protocol
    • Configuring LACP
• VLANs
  • Introduction
  • Overview
  • VLANs and port VLAN ID numbers
    • VLAN numbers
      • Viewing VLANs
    • PVID numbers
    • Viewing and configuring PVIDs
      • Port information
      • Port configuration
  • VLAN tagging
  • VLANs and IP interfaces
  • VLAN topologies and design considerations
    • VLAN configuration rules
  • Multiple VLANS with tagging
    • Configuring the example network
      • Configuring ports and VLANs on Switch 1 (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring ports and VLANs on Switch 2 (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring ports and VLANs on Switch 1 (BBI example)
  • FDB static entries
    • Trunking support for FDB static entries
    • Configuring a static FDB entry
• Spanning Tree Protocol
  • Introduction
  • Overview
  • Bridge Protocol Data Units
    • Determining the path for forwarding BPDUs
      • Bridge priority
      • Port priority
      • Port path cost
  • Spanning Tree Group configuration guidelines
    • Default Spanning Tree configuration
    • Adding a VLAN to a Spanning Tree Group
    • Creating a VLAN
    • Rules for VLAN tagged ports
    • Adding and removing ports from STGs
    • Assigning cost to ports and trunk groups
  • Multiple Spanning Trees
    • Why do we need Multiple Spanning Trees?
    • VLAN participation in Spanning Tree Groups
    • Configuring Multiple Spanning Tree Groups
      • Configuring Switch 1 (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring Switch 2 (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring Switch 1 (BBI example)
  • Port Fast Forwarding
    • Configuring Port Fast Forwarding
  • Fast Uplink Convergence
    • Configuration guidelines
    • Configuring Fast Uplink Convergence
• RSTP and MSTP
  • Introduction
  • Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
    • Port state changes
    • Port type and link type
      • Edge port
      • Link type
    • RSTP configuration guidelines
    • RSTP configuration example
      • Configuring Rapid Spanning Tree (CLI example)
      • Configuring Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (BBI example)
  • Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
    • MSTP region
    • Common Internal Spanning Tree
    • MSTP configuration guidelines
    • MSTP configuration example
      • Configuring Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (CLI example)
      • Configuring Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (BBI example)
• IGMP Snooping
  • Introduction
  • Overview
    • FastLeave
    • IGMP Filtering
      • Configuring the range
      • Configuring the action
    • Static multicast router
    • IGMP Snooping configuration example
      • Configuring IGMP Snooping (CLI example)
      • Configuring IGMP Filtering (CLI example)
      • Configuring a Static Mrouter (CLI example)
      • Configuring IGMP Snooping (BBI example)
      • Configuring IGMP Filtering (BBI example)
      • Configuring a Static Multicast Router (BBI example)
• Remote monitoring
  • Introduction
  • Overview
    • RMON group 1 — statistics
      • Configuring RMON Statistics (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring RMON Statistics (BBI example)
    • RMON group 2 — history
      • History MIB objects
        • Configure RMON History (AOS CLI example)
        • Configure RMON History (BBI example)
    • RMON group 3 — alarms
      • Alarm MIB objects
        • Configure RMON Alarms (AOS CLI example 1)
        • Configure RMON Alarms (AOS CLI example 2)
        • Configure RMON Alarms (BBI example 1)
        • Configure RMON Alarms (BBI example 2)
    • RMON group 9 — events
      • Configuring RMON Events (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring RMON Events (BBI example)
• High availability
  • Introduction
  • Uplink Failure Detection
    • Failure Detection Pair
    • Spanning Tree Protocol with UFD
    • Configuration guidelines
    • Monitoring Uplink Failure Detection
    • Configuring Uplink Failure Detection
      • Configuring UFD on Switch 1 (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring UFD on Switch 2 (AOS CLI example)
      • Configuring Uplink Failure Detection (BBI example)
• Troubleshooting tools
  • Introduction
  • Port Mirroring
    • Configuring Port Mirroring (AOS CLI example)
    • Configuring Port Mirroring (BBI example)
  • Other network troubleshooting techniques
    • Console and Syslog messages
    • Ping
    • Trace route
    • Statistics and state information
    • Customer support tools