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HP ProCurve 1810G Switches

Management and Configuration Guide

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Page 3: ...HP ProCurve 1810G Switches Management and Configuration Guide August 2009 ...

Page 4: ... COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WITH REGARD TO THIS MATERIAL INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE Hewlett Packard shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing performance or use of this material The only warranties for HP products and service...

Page 5: ...1 3 Common Page Elements 1 3 Saving Changes 1 4 User Defined Fields 1 4 Web Applet 1 4 2 Status Pages System Description 2 1 Log 2 2 Port Summary 2 3 LLDP Statistics 2 5 Trunk 2 7 MAC Table 2 8 Loop Protection 2 9 Dual Image 2 10 Clock 2 11 3 Network Setup Get Connected 3 1 Simple Network Time Protocol 3 3 Time Zone 3 4 Daylight Savings Time 3 5 4 Switching Pages Port Configuration 4 1 Jumbo Frame...

Page 6: ...g 7 3 Example Creating a Management VLAN 7 5 8 Link Layer Discovery Protocol LLPD LLDP Configuration 8 1 LLDP Local Device 8 3 LLDP Remote Device 8 4 9 Diagnostics Ping Test 9 1 Log Configuration 9 2 Reboot Switch 9 3 Factory Defaults 9 4 Support File 9 5 Locator 9 6 10 Maintenance Pages Backup Manager 10 1 Example Backing Up a Configuration File 10 2 Update Manager 10 4 Example Updating the Switc...

Page 7: ...ware update information product notes and other information Quick Setup Guide a printed guide shipped with your switch Provides illustrations for basic installation and setup guidelines Regulatory and Safety Information printed documentation shipped with your switch Includes Regulatory statements and standards supported by the switch along with product specifications Installation and Getting Start...

Page 8: ...P Client Yes Yes Diagnostic Tools Yes Yes Event Log Yes Yes Factory Default IP Address 192 168 2 10 192 168 2 10 Factory Default Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 255 255 255 0 Green Features transceiver off LEDs off Yes Yes Interface for Management Access Web browser only Web browser only Jumbo Frames up to 9216 bytes Yes Yes Port Trunking LACP Yes Yes Ports per trunk maximum 4 4 Trunks per switch maximu...

Page 9: ...Security Storm Control Protection Yes Yes SNMP Read Only Read Only Software Downloads TFTP HTTP Yes Yes SSL Secure Socket Layer Yes Yes Syslog Yes Yes System Information Yes Yes Time Protocol SNTP Yes Yes Troubleshooting Yes Yes VLANs maximum 64 64 Feature 1810G 8 1810G 24 ...

Page 10: ...viii Preface ...

Page 11: ...s network adaptor to be in the same subnet as the switch Example Set it to IP address 192 168 2 12 mask 255 255 255 0 4 Enter the IP address shown above in the Web browser See page 1 2 for browser requirements Thereafter use the Web interface to configure a different IP address or configure the switch as a DHCP client so that it receives a dynamically assigned IP address from the network Note If y...

Page 12: ... 0 7 0 Firefox 2 0 up to 3 04 JavaScript must be enabled on the browser to access the Web interface correctly Follow these steps to log on through Web interface 1 Open a Web browser and enter the IP address of the switch in the Web browser address field 2 On the Login page enter the password if one has been set and then click Login By default there is no password After the initial log on the admin...

Page 13: ...ich you use to set up a management connection to the switch You can also click Network Setup Get Connected to display this page See Get Connected on page 3 1 for more information The Web Applet displays summary information for the switch LEDs and port status in a graphical format For information on the Web Applet see Web Applet on page 1 4 Common Page Elements Click on each page to display a help ...

Page 14: ...On the Save page click User Defined Fields User defined fields can contain 1 31 characters unless otherwise noted on the configuration Web page All characters may be used except for the following unless specifically noted for that feature Web Applet The Web Applet as shown in Figure 1 3 displays at the top of the every page It is a graphic representation of the switch and provides information rega...

Page 15: ... the Web interface See Locator on page 9 6 LED Mode Each port has two LEDs The function of the right LED called the Mode LED changes depending on the LED mode selected for the switch Use the LED Mode button on the switch to select a mode Act FDx Spd You can move your cursor over the LED Mode area to view a description of the LED modes Note The LED modes area provides general static information abo...

Page 16: ... in the Web Applet It indicates link status as follows On The port is enabled and receiving a link indication or other signal from the connected device Blinking The port has experienced a self test fault Off The port has no active network cable connected is not receiving link signal or is disabled ...

Page 17: ...iption in the navigation pane It displays basic information such as the software version and system up time In addition the system name location and contact can be configured on this page Figure 2 1 System Description Page Click Apply to save any changes for the current boot session the changes take effect immediately Use the Maintenance SaveConfiguration page to have the settings remain in effect...

Page 18: ...ntries are deleted for example if 200 log entries were generated since the system was last restarted or the log file was cleared then the log file would display entries 101 200 To display this page click Status Log in the navigation pane Figure 2 2 Log Page Click the arrows next to the column headings to sort the list by the column in ascending or descending order Click Clear to delete all log mes...

Page 19: ...s information for each port Scroll down the page to view the Port Statistics table which provides per port statistics on packets transmitted and received To display this page click Status Port Summary in the navigation pane A configuration summary and status of all physical and logical ports are displayed in Figure 2 3 Figure 2 3 Port Summary Page ...

Page 20: ...Unit MTU also referred to as Max Frame size acceptable on the specified port Port Statistics and Trunk Statistics Note The following statistics are collected for both individual port and for trunks Interface The list of physical and logical interfaces supported on that platform Received Packets w o Error The packet count received on the port with out any packet errors Received Packets with Error T...

Page 21: ... Link Layer Discovery Protocol LLDP Statistics page displays summary and per port information for LLDP frames transmitted and received on the switch To display this page click Status LLDP Statistics in the navigation pane Figure 2 4 LLDP Statistics Page ...

Page 22: ...ticular MSAP could not be entered into tables associated with the remote systems because of insufficient resources Age Outs The number of times the complete set of information advertised by a particular MAC Service Access Point MSAP has been deleted from tables associated with the remote systems because the information timeliness interval has expired Time Since Last Update Time when an entry was c...

Page 23: ...ion Control Protocol Data Units LACPDUs with links in the trunk The PDUs contain information about each link and enable the trunk to maintain them Static trunks are assigned to a bundle by the administrator Members do not exchange LACPDUs A static trunk does not require a partner system to be able to aggregate its member ports Admin Status Displays whether the trunk has been enabled or disabled ad...

Page 24: ...the navigation pane Figure 2 6 MAC Table Page Table 2 4 MAC Table Fields Click the Refresh link above the page to re display the page with current data from the switch Field Description MAC Address The list of MAC addresses learned on a particular interface Source Port The source interface on which the particular MAC address has been learned CPU is a special source port used for internal managemen...

Page 25: ...nd the port it shut down for the configured period Protection Feature Mode Shows whether loop protection is enabled or disabled on the port Tx Mode Shows whether the port is configured to forward packets to the multicast destination MAC address designated for the Loop Protection feature Received Total The number of packets received on the interface for which the packet s source MAC address matches...

Page 26: ...ve image and will continue to be the Current active image after a reboot Figure 2 8 Dual Image Status Page Table 2 6 Dual Image Status Fields For instructions on configuring the active image see Dual Image Configuration on page 10 9 Field Description Active The currently active image name Next active The next active image name The Administrator can configure the image to take effect the next time ...

Page 27: ...cription Current Time Time The current time This value is determined by an SNTP server When SNTP is disabled the system time increments from 00 00 00 1 Jan 1970 which is set at bootup Date The current date Time Source If the system time is derived from a SNTP server then SNTP displays If not then No time source displays Time Zone Time Zone The time zone configured on the switch Acronym The acronym...

Page 28: ...settings Shows the following to indicate when the change to Daylight Savings time occurs and when it ends The fields that display here depend on which Daylight Savings Mode is configured Week The number of weeks into the month when the change to from Daylight Savings Time occurs This field is available only when the Daylight Savings Time mode is set to Recurring Day The day of the week when the ch...

Page 29: ...n to the switch via any of the switch s front panel ports The configuration parameters associated with the switch s network interface do not affect the configuration of the front panel ports through which traffic is switched or forwarded except that for the management port the PVID will be the management VLAN To display this page click Network Setup Get Connected As shown in the example configurat...

Page 30: ...he current connection you can log on again using the new IP information MAC Address The burned in universally administered MAC address of this switch Web Parameters Session Timeout Specify the amount of time in minutes that a connection to the Web interface remains active assuming no user activity Management Access Management VLAN ID Management Port Access to the management software is controlled ...

Page 31: ...Field Description Enable SNTP SelecttoenableSNTPclientmode CleartodisableSNTPclientmode Whendisabled thesystem time increments from 00 00 00 1 Jan 1970 which is set at bootup SNTP NTP Server Specify the IP address of the SNTP server to send requests to Server Port Specify the server s UDP port to listen for responses broadcasts range 1 65535 default 123 Time Format Select either 24 hour military t...

Page 32: ...gured to acquire the time from an SNTP server To display the Time Zone page click Network Setup Time Zone in the navigation pane Figure 3 3 Time Zone Page Table 3 3 Time Zone Fields Click Apply to save any the changes for the current boot session the changes take effect immediately Use the Maintenance Save Configuration page to have the setting remain in effect after a reboot Click the Refresh lin...

Page 33: ...nfigured the system time will adjust automatically during Daylight Savings Time To display the Time Zone page click Network Setup Daylight Savings Time in the navigation pane The page displays differently depending on the mode selected in the Daylight Savings Time field In the following figure the mode is set to Recurring Figure 3 4 Daylight Savings Time Page ...

Page 34: ...ttings Set the following to indicate when the change to DST occurs and when it ends When Recurring is selected as the DST mode the following fields display Week The number of weeks into the month when the change to from Daylight Savings Time occurs Day The day of the week when the change to from DST occurs Month Set the month when the change to from Daylight Savings time occurs Hours Set the hour ...

Page 35: ...e content of this page changes based on the physical port selected For example if the selected port is an optional copper fiber port and fiber is being used than the Link Speed selections will display only valid options for that port Table 4 1 Port Configuration Fields Field Description Interface Select the interface to configure Physical Type Describes the port type i e Copper or Fiber Link Statu...

Page 36: ...ture is disabled by default To access this page click Switching Jumbo Frames in the navigation pane Figure 4 2 Jumbo Frames Page Table 4 2 Jumbo Frames Fields Click Apply to save any changes for the current boot session the changes take effect immediately Use the Maintenance Save Configuration page to have the setting remain in effect after a reboot Link Speed Configure the duplex mode and transmi...

Page 37: ...l CPU traffic to an external port for debugging the CPU CAUTION When configuring port mirroring avoid oversubscribing the destination port to prevent the loss of mirrored data While a port is used as the destination port for mirrored data the port cannot be used for any other purpose the port will not receive and forward traffic To display this page click Switching Port Mirroring in the navigation...

Page 38: ...e this functionality To access the page click Switching Flow Control in the navigation pane As shown in the example configuration in Figure 4 4 flow control is enabled globally which would enable flow control on all the ports in the switch Figure 4 4 Flow Control Page Field Description Enable Mirroring Select to enable port mirroring capability globally on the switch Clear to disable the feature D...

Page 39: ...in the navigation pane Figure 4 5 Green Features Table 4 5 Green Mode Fields Click Apply to save any changes for the current boot session the changes take effect immediately Use the Maintenance SaveConfiguration page to have the settings remain ineffect after a reboot Field Description Enable Flow Control Select to enable flow control on the switch Clear to disable the feature Field Description Gr...

Page 40: ...n address on all the ports on which the feature is enabled Transmission of the packet can be disabled selectively on certain ports even when Loop Protection is enabled If this multicast packet comes back to the switch with any of the ports MAC addresses as the source the switch determines that a loop has occurred The port that received the loop protection packet from the switch can be shut down fo...

Page 41: ...n Select Select how you want to configure Loop Protection All Enables all interfaces with Loop Protection One by One Enables you to configure Loop Protection on ports individually default None Disables Loop Protection on all interfaces Interface Loop Protection Select Enable for each port on which you want to use this feature Action If Loop Protection is enabled on a port select one of the followi...

Page 42: ...4 8 Switching Pages Loop Protection ...

Page 43: ...able DoS protection that prevents common types of DoS attacks CAUTION The DoS feature does not generate any notifications such as error messages syslog messages SNMP traps if a DoS attack occurs Storm Control This feature protects against condition where incoming packets flood the LAN causing network performance degradation The software includes Storm Control protection for broadcast and multicast...

Page 44: ...d the certificate the date it was issued and the switch s public key The browser and server use this information negotiate a secure connection in the following manner The browser verifies the certificate authority s authenticity by checking it against its own list of CAs Web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox maintain data on trusted CAs Field Description Auto DoS Sel...

Page 45: ...t certificate has been digitally signed by a CA and is therefore considered to provide a higher level of security You can also download the encryption parameter files that provide algorithms for encrypting the key exchanges To manage HTTP parameters and certificates you use both the Secure Connection page and the Update Manager page To display the Secure Connection page click Security Secure Conne...

Page 46: ...evious certificate has expired or when you have reason to suspect that security has been breached and the certificate has been taken for use by another server See the following sections for instructions on downloading and generating certificates Downloading SSL Certificates and Diffie Hellman Files You can use the Update Manager page to download a public key certificate that has been signed by ano...

Page 47: ...ficates provide the algorithms for encrypting key exchanges and are used independent of the certificate The weak version uses a cipher strength of 512 bits and the strong version uses a cypher strength of 1024 bits Browser settings determine which DH file parameters are requested at the start of the SSL session 5 Click Download To view that status of the update you can view the Status Log page 6 T...

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Page 49: ...rator Members do not exchange LACPDUs A static trunk does not require a partner system to be able to aggregate its member ports All members of a trunk must be either static or dynamic Note If the maximum number of trunks that the platform supports are configured additional trunks are not allowed Trunk Configuration Use the Trunk Configuration page to create one or more full duplex Ethernet links t...

Page 50: ... Mode The administrative mode of the port enabled or disabled Newly created trunks are up by default When disabled no traffic will flow and LACPDUs will be dropped but the links that form the Trunk will not be released To change this setting select Modify select or clear Admin Mode then click Apply Static Capability When enabled the trunk does not transmit or process received LACPDUs The member po...

Page 51: ...d Description Trunk ID Select a trunk to configure its member ports Port Trunk Foreachportthatyouwanttobeamemberoftheselectedtrunk clickthePortTrunkboxtodisplayanM To remove a port from a trunk click again to leave the box blank Note Ports that are configured for Port Mirroring either as a destination or a source port cannot be configured as trunk ports and are greyed out Ports added to a trunk lo...

Page 52: ...6 4 Trunks Trunk Membership ...

Page 53: ...LAN Each VLAN in a network has an associated VLAN ID which displays in the IEEE 802 1Q tag in the Layer 2 header of packets transmitted on a VLAN An end station may omit the tag or the VLAN portion of the tag in which case the first switch port to receive the packet may either reject it or insert a tag using its default VLAN ID A given port may handle traffic for more than one VLAN but it can only...

Page 54: ...n Create VLAN Select this box to create a new VLAN Create VLAN ID Specify the numeric VLAN Identifier from 2 to 4093 and click Apply to create the VLAN Note VLAN ID 1 is pre configured on the switch and is always named Default The default VLAN cannot be deleted Number of VLANs The current number of VLANs Up to 64 VLANs can be created VLAN Name Delete VLAN Set Name After the VLAN ID has been create...

Page 55: ...res untagged membership in VLAN 1 To access the Participation Tagging page click VLANs Participation Tagging in the navigation pane As shown in the example configuration in Figure 7 3 VLAN 1 is selected for configuration Ports 1 2 and 5 are configured as untagged members of VLAN1 and Trunk1 and Trunk2 are also members Ports 3 and 4 and 7 and 8 are greyed out because they are included in Trunk1 and...

Page 56: ...ll box to configure all ports at once Click this box until the appropriate options displays E exclude all ports from this VLAN T participate in the selected VLAN and tag all frames U participate in the selected VLAN and leave all outgoing frames untagged Each portcanhaveonlyoneuntaggedVLANmembership Ifaportisanuntaggedmember of a VLAN and a second VLAN is selected for untagged membership then the ...

Page 57: ...ll lose connectivity instantly upon configuration If more than one port are configured as untagged VLAN members of management VLAN through the VLAN Participation Tagging page users can have management access through all these ports irrespective of the configured management port 1 Use the VLAN Configuration page to create a VLAN ID for use as the management VLAN 2 Display the Network Setup Get Conn...

Page 58: ...7 6 Virtual LAN Example Creating a Management VLAN ...

Page 59: ...eived and processed by stations implementing the receive function The transmit and receive functions can be enabled disabled separately per port By default both transmit and receive are enabled on all ports The application is responsible for starting each transmit and receive state machine appropriately based on the configured status and operational state of the port LLDP Configuration Use the LLD...

Page 60: ...Hold Specify the multiplier on the transmit interval to assign to TTL range 2 10 default 4 Re Initialization Delay Specify the delay before a re initialization range 1 10 seconds default 2 Notification Interval Specify a limit for the transmission of notifications range 5 3600 seconds default 5 Interface Interface The port to be affected by these parameters Transmit Enable Enable or disable the tr...

Page 61: ...from the switch Field Description Local Device Summary Chassis ID The source of the chassis identifier Chassis ID Subtype The type of the source of the chassis identifier Capabilities Supported Displays the system capabilities of the local system Capabilities Enabled Displays the system capabilities of the local system that are supported and enabled LLDP Interface Description LLDP Interface The in...

Page 62: ...ettings from the switch Field Description Local Interface The port on the local system that received the LLDP data from the remote system Chassis ID The chassis component associated with the remote system Port ID The physical address of the port on the remote device that sent the LLDP data Port Description The port description configured on the remote device If the port description is not configur...

Page 63: ...igation pane The following example shows the output of the ping test Figure 9 1 Ping Test Page Table 9 1 Ping Test Fields Field Description IP Address Specify the IP address of the host you want to reach Count Specify the number of packets to send Range 1 5 packets Default 1 Interval Specify the delay between ping packets Range 1 60 seconds Default 3 seconds Size Specify the size of the ping packe...

Page 64: ...mum Maximum Average Round Trip Time msec Log Configuration HP ProCurve 1810G switch software supports logging system messages to the Log file or forwarding messages over the network using the Syslog protocol Syslog messages can be captured by a designated host on the network that is running a Syslog daemon Note The log file is limited to 100 entries The most recent 100 defects are displayed index ...

Page 65: ...the user of a high level of system error Critical Alerts theuserofahighlevelofsystem error whichmustbe immediately addressed Error Alerts the user of an error in the system Warning Warns the user of an impending system error of a specified operation Notice Notifies the user of a system error Info Provides the user with system information Debug An internal note to reconcile programming code Buffere...

Page 66: ...nfiguration images are kept in system memory one image contains custom settings the other image contains the factory defaults Use this page to restore all settings to the factory defaults page To access this page click Diagnostics Factory Defaults CAUTION Backup the current configuration file prior to restoring the factory defaults configuration See Backup Manager on page 10 1 for instructions Fig...

Page 67: ...ship details Trunk configuration details LLDP configuration global statistics and local and remote device summaries Port mirroring configuration Loop protection status per interface To access this page click Diagnostics Support File in the navigation pane This data also displays on status pages for each particular feature For descriptions of these items refer to the related sections in this docume...

Page 68: ...When enabling the Locate setting via the Web interface the Locate LED on the switch blinks for 30 minutes and then turns off To access this page click Diagnostics Locator in the navigation pane Figure 9 5 Locator Page Select Locate and click Apply to cause the Locator LED on the switch to blink for 30 minutes ...

Page 69: ...d Select the protocol to use HTTP The file is downloaded over the current browser session TFTP This requires a TFTP server operating on the system network Server IP TFTP backup only If a TFTP backup is to be performed enter the IP address of the TFTP server File Name TFTP backup only If a TFTP backup is to be performed enter the file name with which backup must be saved This can differ from the ac...

Page 70: ...eration configure the following settings in your browser 1 Click Tools Internet Options and display the Advanced tab 2 In the Security settings select Do not save encrypted pages to disk 3 Try the backup operation again 4 After the backup operation is complete restore your settings to the original values to avoid Web performance issues If you use a browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer su...

Page 71: ... message Code Configuration upload through HTTP TFTP is in Progress Please wait CAUTION Do not disturb the browser window while the transfer is in progress When the backup is complete a window like the following displays 6 Click OK The Backup Manager page displays the following status message 7 Click Back to re display the Backup Manager page Note To restore a backed up code or configuration file ...

Page 72: ...ge2 file is the backup file to be updated Figure 10 2 Update Manager Page Table 10 2 Update Manager Fields Field Description Update Method Select the protocol to use HTTP The file is downloaded using HTTP from a local or remote drive TFTP The file is downloaded using TFTP from a TFTP server operating on the system network Browse for file HTTP upload only If HTTP is used for the software update cli...

Page 73: ...Active the active image file will be updated 5 Click Download A warning page like the following displays the text may differ depending on the protocol selected Update Type Select the file type to be updated Code Update the software image file specified Configuration Update up the configuration file To update an SSL certificate or key encryption file select the certificate type for a description of...

Page 74: ...ys 7 Click OK The following message displays on the Update Manager page Code Configuration download through HTTP TFTP is in Progress Please wait When the transfer is complete a window like the following displays 8 Click OK Update Manager displays the following status message ...

Page 75: ...icking Activate Image2 will be activated on the next reboot and Image1 will become the inactive backup image 10 Optional Add a description for the selected image Image2 and click Apply 11 Click Activate to activate the selected image on the next reboot Note You can verify the next active image by viewing the Status Dual Image screen 12 Click Diagnostics Reboot Switch and then click Reboot Switch t...

Page 76: ...gure 10 3 shows the Password Manager page Figure 10 3 Password Manager Page Note Passwords must be at least 8 characters but no more than 64 characters long Passwords are case sensitive Enter the old password and the new password twice and click Apply At the next log on use the new password Use the Maintenance Save Configuration page to ensure that the new password remains in effect after a reboot...

Page 77: ...sion Dual Image Configuration Use the Dual Image Configuration page to name and change the next bootup image To access this page click Maintenance Dual Image Configuration The Dual Image Configuration allows activating either of the stored images Image1 or Image2 When one image is activated the other image serves as a backup if Image1 either fails or does not boot then the other image can be activ...

Page 78: ...ed in the Image Name field Click Delete to delete the image selected in the Image Name field To view dual image status information click Status Dual Image Status in the navigation pane Field Description Image Name Select the image you want to perform an action on You can activate the selected image delete it or configure a description of it Options are Image1 and Image2 Active Image The currently ...

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Page 80: ...s subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP will not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein August 2009 Manual Part Number 5992 5475 ...

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