Dell Networking X4000 Series User guide

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Dell™ Networking™ X1000

and X4000 Series Switches

User Guide

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data and tells you how to avoid the problem.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2 Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

MAC Address Capacity Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Layer 2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

VLAN Supported Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Spanning Tree Protocol Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Quality of Service Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Device Management Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Security Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3 Hardware Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Device Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Device Structure

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Managed Mode Button

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Reset Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Fans

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

LED Definitions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

4 Using the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Dashboard

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Saving Configurations

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Information Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Field Definitions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Common GUI Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

5 Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Interfaces

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Switch Information

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Recent Logged Events

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Active Alerts

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Ports and VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Configuration Wizards

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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6 Switch Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

IP Addressing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

IPv4 Addressing

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

IPv6 Addressing

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

File Update and Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Domain Name System (DNS)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Time Synchronization

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Management Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

7 Logs and Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Logs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Login History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Remote Log Servers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

8 Statistics and Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 129

Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Diagnostics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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9 Network Administration: VLAN . . . . . . . 143

VLAN Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Standard VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Voice VLAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

10 Network Administration: Port Settings . 161

Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Address Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

UDLD

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

11 Network Administration: Spanning Tree and LAG

185

Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Link Aggregation (LAG)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

12 Network Administration: Link Layer Discovery

Protocol (LLDP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

LLDP Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

LLDP Port Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

MED Network Policy

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

MED Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Neighbors Information

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

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13 Network Administration: Route Settings 215

System Routing Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

IPv4 Route Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

IPv6 Route Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

14 Network Administration: Quality of Service 227

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Global Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

QoS Mapping

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

QoS Statistics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

15 Network Administration: Security . . . . . 245

Dot1x Authentications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Storm Control Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Port Security

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

ACL and ACE

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

16 Network Administration: SNMP Monitoring 277

SNMP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

SNMP Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

View Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

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Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

User Security Model

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Notification Filter

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Notification Recipients

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

17 Network Administration: Multicast . . . . 289

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Global Parameters

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Multicast Group

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Multicast Forward All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

IGMP Snooping

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

MLD Snooping

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Unregistered Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Multicast TV VLAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

18 Network Administration: DHCP Snooping and

DHCP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

DHCP Relay

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

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19 Network Administration: DHCP Server 309

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

DHCP Server Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Network Pool

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Static Hosts

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Address Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Excluded Addresses

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

20 Network Administration: Power Management 317

Green Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Power Over Ethernet (PoE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

21 Network Administration: sFlow . . . . . . . 323

22 Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

CLI Command Conventions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Accessing the Device Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . 331

IPv6 Address Conventions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

23 CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

clear counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

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clear logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

configure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

crypto certificate generate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

crypto certificate import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

crypto certificate request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

crypto key generate dsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

crypto key generate rsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

crypto key import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

debug-mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

dir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

enable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

end . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

exit (EXEC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

exit (Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

ip address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

ip default-gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

ip https certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

ip routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

ip ssh server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

lldp transmit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

lldp receive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

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ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

power inline legacy support disable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

power inline usage-threshold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

reload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

show bootvar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

show crypto certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

show crypto key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

show interfaces counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

show interfaces status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

show ip dhcp tftp-server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

show ip https . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

show ip interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

show power inline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

show power inline consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

show running-config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

show system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

show tech-support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

show version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

show vlan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

spanning-tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

username . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

vlan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

write. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

24 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Locating Your System Service Tag . . . . . . . . . . . 395

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Downloading Drivers, Firmware, and Software. . . . 396

Related Documentation

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Documentation Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

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Preface

This guide contains the information needed for configuring and maintaining

the Dell™ Networking™ X1000 and X4000 Series devices through the Dell

Networking Administrator.

For explanation of acronyms, refer to the

Glossary

.

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Features

This section describes the features of the Dell™ Networking™ X1000 and

X4000 Series devices.

For a complete list of all updated device features, see the Release Notes

included in the latest version of software released at

dell.com/support

.

This section provides a brief description of the following features:

• IP Version 6 (IPv6) Support

• Head of Line Blocking Prevention

•Back Pressure Support

• Virtual Cable Testing (VCT)

• Auto-Negotiation

• MDI/MDIX Support

• MAC Address Capacity Support

• Layer 2 Features

• IGMP Snooping

• MLD Snooping

• Port and VLAN Mirroring

• Broadcast Storm Control

•VLAN Support

• Spanning Tree Protocol Features

• Link Aggregation

• Quality of Service Features

• Device Management Features

• Security Features

•DHCP Server

• Protected Ports

• Proprietary Protocol Filtering

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• Static Routing

•IPv6 Router

•sFlow

IP Version 6 (IPv6) Support

The device functions as an IPv6-compliant host, as well as an IPv4 host (also

known as dual stack). This enables device operation in a pure IPv6 network as

well as in a combined IPv4/IPv6 network.

For more information, see

IPv6 Addressing

.

Head of Line Blocking Prevention

Head of Line (HOL) blocking results in traffic delays and frame loss caused

by traffic competing for the same egress port resources. The switch prevents

HOL blocking by queueing packets, such that packets in the front of a queue

do not block the packets behind if they are to be sent to different ports.

Back Pressure Support

On half-duplex links, the receiving port prevents buffer overflows by

occupying the link so that it is unavailable for additional traffic.

For more information, see

Back Pressure

.

Virtual Cable Testing (VCT)

VCT

detects and reports copper link cabling faults, such as open cables and

cable shorts.

For more information, see

Diagnostics

.

Auto-Negotiation

Auto-negotiation enables the device to advertise modes of operation. The

auto-negotiation function enables an exchange of information between two

devices that share a point-to-point link segment, and automatically

configures both devices to take maximum advantage of their transmission

capabilities.

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The devices enhance auto-negotiation by providing port advertisement. Port

advertisement enables the system administrator to configure the port speeds

that are advertised.

For more information, see

Network Administration: Port Settings

.

MDI/MDIX Support

Standard wiring for end stations is known as Media-Dependent Interface

(MDI), and standard wiring for hubs and switches is known as Media-

Dependent Interface with Crossover (MDIX).

If auto-negotiation is enabled, the device automatically detects whether the

cable connected to an RJ-45 port is MDIX (crossed) or MDI (straight). This

enables both types to be used interchangeably.

If auto-negotiation is disabled, only MDI (straight) cables can be used.

For more information, see

MDI/MDIX

.

MAC Address Capacity Support

All SKUs support up to 16K MAC addresses except for the X4012 that

supports 32K addresses. They reserve specific MAC addresses for system use.

For more information, see

Address Tables

.

Static MAC Entries

MAC entries can be manually entered in the Bridging Table, as an alternative

to learning them from incoming frames. These user-defined entries are not

subject to aging and are preserved across reset to reboots.

For more information, see

Address Tables

.

Self-Learning MAC Addresses

The device enables controlled MAC address learning from incoming packets.

The MAC addresses are stored in the Dynamic Address Table.

For more information, see

Address Tables

.

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Automatic Aging for MAC Addresses

MAC addresses from which no traffic is received for a given period, are aged

out. This frees Bridging Table resources for learning new MAC addresses.

For more information, see

Address Tables

.

VLAN-Aware MAC-Based Switching

The device always performs VLAN-aware bridging. VLAN-aware bridges

perform VLAN-based MAC address learning and forwarding. Frames

addressed to a unknown destination MAC address are flooded to all ports of

the relevant VLAN.

This is a standard feature.

MAC Multicast Support

Multicast service is a service that enables one-to-many and many-to-many

communication for information distribution. In Layer 2 Multicast service, a

single frame is addressed to a specific Multicast address, from which copies of

the frame are transmitted to the relevant ports. When Multicast groups are

statically enabled, you can set the destination port of registered groups, as

well as define the behavior of unregistered Multicast frames.

For more information, see

Network Administration: Multicast

.

Layer 2 Features

IGMP Snooping

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Snooping examines IGMP

frame contents, when they are forwarded by the device from work stations to

an upstream Multicast router. From the frame data, the device identifies work

stations configured for Multicast sessions, and which Multicast routers are

sending Multicast frames. The IGMP Querier simulates the behavior of a

Multicast router. This enables snooping of the Layer 2 Multicast domain even

if there is no Multicast router.

For more information, see

IGMP Snooping

.

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MLD Snooping

Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping performs the function of

IGMP Snooping for IPv6.

For more information, see

MLD Snooping

.

Port and VLAN Mirroring

Port and VLAN mirroring monitors network traffic by forwarding copies of

incoming and outgoing packets from a monitored port to a monitoring port.

Users specify which target port receives copies of all traffic passing through a

specified source port.

For more information, see

Port and VLAN Mirrorings

.

Broadcast Storm Control

Storm Control limits the number of Multicast and Broadcast frames accepted

and forwarded by the device.

When Layer 2 frames are forwarded, Broadcast and Multicast frames are

forwarded to multiple ports on the relevant VLAN and excess Broadcast and

Multicast could degrade network performance and disrupt services.

For more information, see

Storm Control Configuration

.

VLAN Supported Features

VLAN Support

VLANs are collections of switching ports that comprise a single Broadcast

domain. Packets are classified as belonging to a VLAN, based on either the

VLAN tag or on a combination of the ingress port and packet contents.

Packets sharing common attributes can be grouped in the same VLAN.

For more information, see

Network Administration: VLAN

.

Port-Based Virtual LANs (VLANs)

Port-based VLANs classify incoming packets to VLANs, based on their ingress

port.

For more information, see

VLAN Membership

.

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Full 802.1Q VLAN Tagging Compliance

IEEE 802.1Q defines an architecture for virtual, bridged LANs, the services

provided in VLANs, and the protocols and algorithms involved in the

provision of these services.

For more information, see

VLAN Overview

.

GVRP Support

GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) provides IEEE 802.1Q-

compliant VLAN pruning and dynamic VLAN creation on 802.1Q trunk

ports. When GVRP is enabled, the device registers and propagates VLAN

membership on all ports that are part of the active underlying Spanning Tree

Protocol topology.

For more information, see

GVRP Parameters

.

Voice VLAN

Voice VLAN enables network administrators to enhance VoIP service by

configuring ports to carry IP voice traffic from IP phones on a specific VLAN.

VoIP traffic has a preconfigured Organizationally Unique Identifiers (OUI)

prefix in the source MAC address. Network administrators can configure

VLANs from which voice IP traffic is forwarded. Non-VoIP traffic is dropped

from the Voice VLAN in Auto-Voice VLAN Secure mode. Voice VLAN also

provides QoS to VoIP, ensuring that the quality of voice does not deteriorate if

the IP traffic is received unevenly.

The default secure mode is supported.

For more information, see

Voice VLAN

.

Guest VLAN

Guest VLAN provides limited network access to unauthorized ports. If a port

is denied network access via port-based authorization, but the Guest VLAN is

enabled, the port receives limited network access through the Guest VLAN.

For more information, see

Dot1x Authentications

.

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