HP 5300, Reviewer'S Manual

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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide
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IP Forwarding Table MIB (RFC 2096)
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SMON MIB (RFC 2613)
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RADIUS Client MIB (RFC 2618)
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RADIUS Client Accounting MIB (RFC 2620)
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Ethernet MIB (RFC 2665)
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802.3 MAU MIB (RFC 2668)
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802.1p and 802.1Q Bridge MIB (RFC 2674)
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Entity MIB (RFC 2737)
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RMON MIB (RFC 2819)
Groups: (1) Ethernet statistics, (2) Ethernet history, (3) Alarm, (9) Event,
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Evolution of Interface MIB (RFC 2863)
In addition, a number of enterprise-specific MIBs are also supported for such things as VLANs, XRRP,
and multiple bridge groups.
2.7.2 RMON Support
For those customers that use RMON applications, the HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series support
RMON groups 1 (Ethernet statistics), 2 (Ethernet history), 3 (Alarm), and 9 (Event). These four groups
are available for all ports.
The Ethernet statistics group provides counters for packet counts, broadcast/multicast packets, packet
length counts, missed packets and erred packets. Event and Alarm groups allow threshold setting and
alarm generation based on the counters in the Ethernet group. History accumulates two records for
each port, one a sampling of Ethernet statistics taken every 30 seconds and the other a sampling of
statistics taken every 30 minutes.
2.7.3 Network Monitoring Port
If more RMON groups (such as packet capture) are desired, a RMON probe can be attached to one of
the HP ProCurve 5300xl ports and Port Monitoring can be configured. Port Monitoring allows the end
user to copy all traffic, inbound and outbound, from any number of ports, even those on different
subnets within the switch, to a single destination port. This allows the probe to see all traffic on the
selected ports to provide the probe with the proper global perspective.
The Network Monitoring Port can also copy all traffic for one particular VLAN to the destination port,
rather than having to specify on a port-by-port basis.
This feature is very helpful when using a LAN analyzer when doing specific monitoring or
troubleshooting of network segments.
2.7.4 Console Support
Out-of-band management of the HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series can be done through the RS-232
console port via a directly connected terminal emulator. The console interface provides three ways to
configure the switch:
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Setup – provides a quick, simple one screen menu to set up the switch for items such as
IP address, time protocol method, community name, spanning tree, etc. without having
to use the command line interface. Particularly useful for getting an IP address into the
switch so that additional configuration can be done through the browser GUI.
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Menu – provides easy menu style configuration and monitoring of the major areas of the
switch. Many switch configurations can be entirely done through the menu system
without any real knowledge of the command line interface.
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CLI (command line interface) – provides configuration and monitoring access to every
function on the switch.
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