Dell N4000 User manual

Brand: Dell

Model: N4000

Category: Software

Type: User manual

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N4064F

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Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Additional Documentation

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

2 Switch Feature Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

System Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Multiple Management Options

. . . . . . . . . . . 56

System Time Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Log Messages

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

Integrated DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Management of Basic Network Information. . . . 57

IPv6 Management Features

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

Dual Software Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Switch Database Management Templates

. . . . . 58

Automatic Installation of Firmware and

Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

sFlow

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

SNMP Alarms and Trap Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

CDP Interoperability through ISDP . . . . . . . . . 60

Remote Monitoring (RMON)

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

Stacking Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

High Stack Count

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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Single IP Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Master Failover with Transparent Transition . . . . 62

Nonstop Forwarding on the Stack . . . . . . . . . 62

Hot Add/Delete and Firmware

Synchronization

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Configurable Access and Authentication

Profiles

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Password-Protected Management Access

. . . . 63

Strong Password Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . 63

TACACS+ Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

RADIUS Support

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

SSH/SSL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Inbound Telnet Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Denial of Service

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Port Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Captive Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Dot1x Authentication (IEEE 802.1X)

. . . . . . . . . 66

MAC-Based 802.1X Authentication . . . . . . . . . 66

Dot1x Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

MAC-Based Port Security

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Access Control Lists (ACL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Time-Based ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

IP Source Guard (IPSG)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Dynamic ARP Inspection

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Protected Ports (Private VLAN Edge)

. . . . . . . . 68

Green Technology Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Energy Detect Mode

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Energy Efficient Ethernet

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Power Utilization Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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Power over Ethernet (PoE) Plus Features . . . . . . . . 70

Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Plus

Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

PoE Plus Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3x)

. . . . . . . . . 71

Head of Line Blocking Prevention . . . . . . . . . 71

Alternate Store and Forward (ASF)

. . . . . . . . . 71

Jumbo Frames Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Auto-MDI/MDIX Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

VLAN-Aware MAC-based Switching

. . . . . . . . 72

Back Pressure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Auto Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Broadcast Storm Control

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

Port Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Static and Dynamic MAC Address Tables . . . . . 73

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

. . . . . . . 74

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for

Media Endpoint Devices

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Connectivity Fault Management

(IEEE 802.1ag)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) . . . . . . . . . 74

Data Center Bridging Exchange (DBCx)

Protocol

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

Enhanced Transmission Selection

. . . . . . . . . 75

Cisco Protocol Filtering

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

DHCP Layer 2 Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Virtual Local Area Network Supported Features . . . . 77

VLAN Support

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Port-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IP Subnet-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

MAC-based VLAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IEEE 802.1v Protocol-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . 77

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GARP and GVRP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Voice VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Guest VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Double VLANs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Spanning Tree Protocol Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

. . . . . . . . . . . 79

Spanning Tree Port Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Multiple Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard

. . . . . . 80

BPDU Filtering

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

RSTP-PV and STP-PV

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Link Aggregation Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Link Aggregation

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Link Aggregate Control Protocol (LACP)

. . . . . . 81

Multi-Switch LAG (MLAG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Table

Management

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

VLAN Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

IP Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) . . . . . . . . . . 82

BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

IP Helper and UDP Relay

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Routing Information Protocol

. . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Router Discovery

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) . . . . 84

Tunnel and Loopback Interfaces

. . . . . . . . . . 84

IPv6 Routing Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

IPv6 Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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IPv6 Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

OSPFv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Quality of Service (QoS) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Differentiated Services (DiffServ)

. . . . . . . . . 86

Class Of Service (CoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Auto Voice over IP (VoIP)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Internet Small Computer System Interface

(iSCSI) Optimization

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Layer 2 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

MAC Multicast Support

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

IGMP Snooping Querier

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

MLD Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Multicast VLAN Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Layer 3 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol

. . . . 89

Internet Group Management Protocol . . . . . . . 89

IGMP Proxy

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Protocol Independent Multicast—

Dense Mode

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Protocol Independent Multicast—

Sparse Mode

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Protocol Independent Multicast—

Source Specific Multicast

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Protocol Independent Multicast IPv6 Support . . . 90

MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810) . . . . . . . . . . 90

3 Hardware Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Dell Networking N2000 Series Switch Hardware . . . 91

N2000 Series Front Panel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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N2000 Series Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

N2000 LED Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Power Consumption for N2000 Series PoE

Switches

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

Dell Networking N3000 Series Switch

Hardware

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

N3000 Series Front Panel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

N3000 Series Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

LED Definitions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Power Consumption for N3000 Series PoE

Switches

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Dell Networking N4000 Series Switch

Hardware

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Front Panel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

N4000 Back Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Switch MAC Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

4 Using Dell OpenManage Switch

Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

About Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator. . . . 127

Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Understanding the Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using the Switch Administrator Buttons and

Links

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Defining Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Understanding the Device View . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using the Device View Port Features

. . . . . . . 132

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Using the Device View Switch Locator

Feature

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

5 Using the Command-Line Interface. . . . 135

Accessing the Switch Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . 135

Console Connection

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Telnet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Understanding Command Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Entering CLI Commands

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using the Question Mark to Get Help

. . . . . . . 139

Using Command Completion

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

Entering Abbreviated Commands . . . . . . . . . 140

Negating Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Command Output Paging

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Understanding Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 141

Recalling Commands from the History Buffer . . . 141

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

6 Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

7 Setting the IP Address and Other

Basic Network Information

. . . . . . . . . . 147

IP Address and Network Information Overview . . . . 147

What Is the Basic Network Information?

. . . . . 147

Why Is Basic Network Information

Needed?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

How Is Basic Network Information

Configured?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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What Is Out-of-Band Management and

In-Band Management?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Default Network Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Configuring Basic Network Information (Web)

. . . . 152

Out-of-Band Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

IP Interface Configuration (Default VLAN IP

Address)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Route Entry Configuration (Switch Default

Gateway)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Domain Name Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Host Name Mapping

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Dynamic Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . 160

Configuring Basic Network Information (CLI). . . . . 161

Enabling the DHCP Client on the OOB Port

. . . . 161

Enabling the DHCP Client on the Default

VLAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Managing DHCP Leases

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Configuring Static Network Information on

the OOB Port

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Configuring Static Network Information on

the Default VLAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Configuring and Viewing Additional Network

Information

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

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Basic Network Information Configuration

Example

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

8 Managing QSFP Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

9 Managing a Switch Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Stacking Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Dell Networking N2000, N3000, and N4000

Stacking Compatibility

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

How is the Stack Master Selected? . . . . . . . . 175

Adding a Switch to the Stack

. . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Removing a Switch from the Stack. . . . . . . . . 177

How is the Firmware Updated on the Stack? . . . 177

What is Stacking Standby?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

What is Nonstop Forwarding? . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Switch Stack MAC Addressing and Stack

Design Considerations

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

NSF Network Design Considerations . . . . . . . 181

Why is Stacking Needed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Default Stacking Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Managing and Monitoring the Stack (Web). . . . . . . 184

Unit Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Stack Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Stack Firmware Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . 186

Supported Switches

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Stack Port Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Stack Port Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Stack Port Diagnostics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

NSF Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Checkpoint Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

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Managing the Stack (CLI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Configuring Stack Member, Stack Port, and

NSF Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Viewing and Clearing Stacking and NSF

Information

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Stacking and NSF Usage Scenarios

. . . . . . . . . . 195

Basic Failover

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Preconfiguring a Stack Member

. . . . . . . . . 197

NSF in the Data Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

NSF and VoIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

NSF and DHCP Snooping

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

NSF and the Storage Access Network . . . . . . 202

NSF and Routed Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

10 Configuring Authentication,

Authorization, and Accounting . . . . . . . 207

AAA Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Methods

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Access Lines

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

Authentication

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Authentication Types

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Exec Authorization Capabilities

. . . . . . . . . . 212

Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Authentication Examples

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Local Authentication Example

. . . . . . . . . . 215

TACACS+ Authentication Example

. . . . . . . . 217

Public Key SSH Authentication Example

. . . . . 218

RADIUS Authentication Example

. . . . . . . . . 225

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Authorization Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Local Authorization Example—Direct

. . . . . . . . . . . 227

TACACS+ Authorization Example—Direct

. . . . . . . . . . . 227

TACACS+ Authorization Example—

Administrative Profiles

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

TACACS+ Authorization Example—Custom

Administrative Profile

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

TACACS+ Authorization Example—

Per-command Authorization

. . . . . . . . . . . . 230

RADIUS Authorization Example—Direct

. . . . . . . . . . . 231

RADIUS Authorization Example—

Administrative Profiles

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Using RADIUS Servers to Control Management

Access

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

How Does RADIUS Control Management

Access?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Which RADIUS Attributes Does the Switch

Support?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

How Are RADIUS Attributes Processed on

the Switch?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Using TACACS+ Servers to Control Management

Access

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Which TACACS+ Attributes Does the Switch

Support?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Default Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Method Lists

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Access Lines (AAA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Access Lines (Non-AAA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Administrative Profiles

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

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11 Monitoring and Logging System

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

System Monitoring Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

What System Information Is Monitored?

. . . . . 243

Why Is System Information Needed?. . . . . . . 244

Where Are Log Messages Sent? . . . . . . . . . 244

What Are the Severity Levels?

. . . . . . . . . . 245

What Are the System Startup and Operation

Logs?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

What Is the Log Message Format? . . . . . . . . 246

What Factors Should Be Considered When

Configuring Logging?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Default Log Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Monitoring System Information and Configuring

Logging (Web)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Device Information

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

System Health

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

System Resources

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Unit Power Usage History . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Integrated Cable Test for Copper Cables . . . . . 254

Optical Transceiver Diagnostics

. . . . . . . . . 255

Log Global Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

RAM Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Log File

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Syslog Server

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Email Alert Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . 262

Email Alert Mail Server Configuration

. . . . . . 262

Email Alert Subject Configuration . . . . . . . . 264

Email Alert To Address Configuration. . . . . . . 265

Email Alert Statistics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

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Monitoring System Information and Configuring

Logging (CLI)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Viewing System Information and Enabling

the Locator LED

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Running Cable Diagnostics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Configuring Local Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Configuring Remote Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Configuring Mail Server Settings. . . . . . . . . . 271

Configuring Email Alerts for Log Messages . . . . 272

Logging Configuration Examples

. . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Configuring Local and Remote Logging

. . . . . . 274

Configuring Email Alerting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

12 Managing General System Settings . . . 279

System Settings Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Why Does System Information Need to

Be Configured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

What Are SDM Templates?. . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Why is the System Time Needed? . . . . . . . . . 283

How Does SNTP Work?

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

What Configuration Is Required for Plug-In

Modules?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

What Are the Key PoE Plus Features for the

N2024P/N2048P and N3024P/N3048P

Switches?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Default General System Information

. . . . . . . . . . 286

Configuring General System Settings (Web)

. . . . 287

System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

CLI Banner

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

SDM Template Preference

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

Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

SNTP Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

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SNTP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

SNTP Server

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Summer Time Configuration

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

Time Zone Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Card Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Slot Summary

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Supported Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Power Over Ethernet Global Configuration

(N2024P/N2048P and N3024P/N3048P Only)

. . . 304

Power Over Ethernet Interface Configuration

(N2024P/N2048P and N3024P/N3048P Only)

. . . 305

Configuring System Settings (CLI) . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Configuring System Information

. . . . . . . . . 307

Configuring the Banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Managing the SDM Template. . . . . . . . . . . 309

Configuring SNTP Authentication and an

SNTP Server

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Setting the System Time and Date Manually . . . 311

Configuring the Expansion Slots (N3000

Series Only)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Viewing Slot Information (N4000 Series

Only)

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

Configuring PoE Settings (N2024P/N2048P

and N3024P/N3048P Only)

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

General System Settings Configuration

Examples

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Configuring System and Banner Information

. . . 315

Configuring SNTP

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Configuring the Time Manually

. . . . . . . . . . 321

13 Configuring SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

SNMP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

What Is SNMP?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Contents 17

What Are SNMP Traps? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Why Is SNMP Needed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Default SNMP Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Configuring SNMP (Web)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

SNMP Global Parameters

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

SNMP View Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Access Control Group

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

SNMPv3 User Security Model (USM) . . . . . . . 332

Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Notification Filter

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Notification Recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Trap Flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

OSPFv2 Trap Flags

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

OSPFv3 Trap Flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Trap Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Configuring SNMP (CLI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Configuring the SNMPv3 Engine ID

. . . . . . . . 345

Configuring SNMP Views, Groups, and Users . . . 346

Configuring Communities

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Configuring SNMP Notifications (Traps and

Informs)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

SNMP Configuration Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Configuring SNMPv1 and SNMPv2

. . . . . . . . . 354

Configuring SNMPv3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

14 Managing Images and Files . . . . . . . . . 359

Image and File Management Overview . . . . . . . . . 359

What Files Can Be Managed?

. . . . . . . . . . . 359

Why Is File Management Needed?. . . . . . . . . 361

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What Methods Are Supported for File

Management?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

What Factors Should Be Considered When

Managing Files?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

How Is the Running Configuration Saved? . . . . 366

Managing Images and Files (Web) . . . . . . . . . . 367

File System

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Active Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

USB Flash Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

File Download

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

File Upload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Copy Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Managing Images and Files (CLI)

. . . . . . . . . . . 375

Downloading and Activating a New Image

(TFTP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Managing Files in Internal Flash . . . . . . . . . 377

Managing Files on a USB Flash Device . . . . . 379

Uploading a Configuration File (SCP)

. . . . . . . 379

Managing Configuration Scripts (SFTP)

. . . . . 380

File and Image Management Configuration

Examples

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Upgrading the Firmware

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Managing Configuration Scripts . . . . . . . . . 384

Managing Files by Using the USB Flash

Drive

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

15 Automatically Updating the Image

and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Auto Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

What Is USB Auto Configuration?

. . . . . . . . 390

What Files Does USB Auto Configuration

Use?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Contents 19

How Does USB Auto Configuration Use the

Files on the USB Device?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

What Is the Setup File Format?. . . . . . . . . . . 392

What Is the DHCP Auto Configuration

Process?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Monitoring and Completing the DHCP Auto

Configuration Process

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

What Are the Dependencies for DHCP Auto

Configuration?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Default Auto Configuration Values . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Managing Auto Configuration (Web) . . . . . . . . . . 401

Auto-Install Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Managing Auto Configuration (CLI)

. . . . . . . . . . . 402

Managing Auto Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . 402

Auto Configuration Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Enabling USB Auto Configuration and Auto

Image Download

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Enabling DHCP Auto Configuration and Auto

Image Download

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Easy Image Upgrade via USB . . . . . . . . . . . 406

16 Monitoring Switch Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Traffic Monitoring Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

What is sFlow Technology?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

What is RMON?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

What is Port Mirroring?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Port Mirroring Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Remote Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Why is Traffic Monitoring Needed?

. . . . . . . . 413

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Default Traffic Monitoring Values . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Monitoring Switch Traffic (Web)

. . . . . . . . . . . 414

sFlow Agent Summary

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

sFlow Receiver Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . 416

sFlow Sampler Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . 417

sFlow Poll Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Etherlike Statistics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

GVRP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

EAP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Utilization Summary

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Counter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Switchport Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

RMON Statistics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

RMON History Control Statistics . . . . . . . . . 427

RMON History Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

RMON Event Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

RMON Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

RMON Alarms

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

LAG Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Port Mirroring

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Monitoring Switch Traffic (CLI) . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Configuring sFlow

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Configuring RMON

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Viewing Statistics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Configuring Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Configuring RSPAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Traffic Monitoring Configuration Examples

. . . . . . 447

Configuring sFlow

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Configuring RMON

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Configuring Remote Capture

. . . . . . . . . . . 450

Configuring RSPAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

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Dell N4000 User manual

Brand: Dell

Model: N4000

Category: Software

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