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Managing Switches
Setting the VLAN for a Switch Port
To set a switch port to a specific VLAN, right-click on a switch port in the switch port
view and click Click
Set VLAN
to view all available VLANs on the switch. Select a VLAN
from the list.
The
Deployment Solution Switch Add-On
application will then use the supplied SNMP
community strings (passwords) and attempt to change the VLAN setting on the port. If
successful, the VLAN column will be updated.
Note
It is possible to select more than one port in the port view and assign all selected ports
to a particular VLAN in one operation. However, due to the number of operations
required to change VLANs on some switching devices, this operation can be time
consuming.
Assigning Connectivity to a Switch Port
From the switch port view, right-click any switch port and click
Assign/View
Connectivity
to determine what client or server computers are connected to a
particular switch port.
The
Assign/View Connectivity
dialog shows all visible devices, including the MAC
addresses that are being forwarded by the switch. It also shows any previous
connectivity mapping, such as an
X
in the
Connected
column). You can add a
hostname to a specific MAC address by right-clicking the appropriate MAC address. A
menu appears. Click
Add/Edit Host Info
to enter the hostname on the dialog.
Note
If the
IP address
and
Hostname
columns are blank for a MAC address, the application
does not have enough information about the global network to display an IP Address/
Hostname binding to that MAC address.
You can assign connectivity to a particular switch device by selecting the device (or MAC
address) in the list and clicking
Assign Connectivity to Port
. This will mark the MAC
address as connected to this port. You can remove connectivity by selecting the MAC
address you want to remove from connectivity and clicking
Remove Connectivity
from Port
. When the dialog is closed, the client and server computers can be seen in
the Connectivity column of the switch port view.
Command-line Parameters
The following command line parameters can be supplied to the Deployment Solution
Switch Add-On program to launch the program with the appropriate
-d=<switch IP address>
: By supplying the IP address of the switch, the Switch Add-
On program will launch and automatically select the supplied device in the tree view
(thereby, showing all of its ports in the port view).
-e=<end node MAC address>
: By supplying the MAC address of a client or server
computer, the Switch Add-On program will launch and automatically select the switch
and port that the client or server computer is connected to (if the connectivity has been
previously assigned).
