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Centralized Network

Management

GigaX Smart Switch Management Software

User’s Manual

E1816 / Oct 2004

Summary of Contents for GigaX 1024P User's

Page 1: ...Centralized Network Management GigaX Smart Switch Management Software User s Manual E1816 Oct 2004 ...

Page 2: ...ent to infringe SPECIFICATIONSAND INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MANUALARE FUR NISHED FOR INFORMATIONAL USE ONLY AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COM MITMENT BY ASUS ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL IN CLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT Copyright 2004 ASUSTeK ...

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Page 4: ...2 2 GigaX Smart Switch Features 6 2 3 Technical Specifications 6 2 4 Front Panel 7 2 5 Rear Panel 7 3 Quick Start Guide 8 3 1 Part 1 Connecting the Hardware 8 3 2 Part 2 Start the Switch 9 3 3 Management from CNM 10 4 Management Functions 14 4 1 Start CNM Program 14 4 2 Functional Layout 15 4 3 General Settings for CNM 17 4 4 Switch Topology 20 4 5 Switch Setup 23 4 6 System 24 4 7 Configuration 3...

Page 5: ...s to call your attention to specific instructions or explanations Note Provides clarification or nonessential information on the current topic Definition Explains terms or acronyms that may be unfamiliar to many readers These terms are also included in the Glossary WARNING Provides messages of high importance including messages relating to personal safety or system integrity 1 Introduction Congrat...

Page 6: ...ding rate 8K MAC address cache with hardware assisted aging 802 3x flow control 802 1Q based tagged VLAN up to 32 VLANs 802 1p CoS Class of Service 2 queues per port IGMP v1 v2 snooping support 802 3ad link aggregation trunking up to 7 trunk groups GigaX 1024I only 802 3ad link aggregation trunking up to 8 trunk groups GigaX 1024P only Bandwidth management for each port and Tx Rx direction Broadca...

Page 7: ...rt Off No Ethernet link Amber On Ethernet link is established in 10 Mbps Flashing Data frames are being transmitted on this port DUPLEX COLLISION Amber On The port is operating in full duplex mode Flashing The port is operating in half duplex mode and collisions are occurring Off The port is operating in half duplex mode 10 100 1000 Gigabit ports form 25 to 26 GigaX 1024P only STATUS Green On Link...

Page 8: ... In Part 1 you select a proper place to install the switch Please use the operating environment specifications as references to choose the installation place The Ethernet cable length from the switch to an attached device cannot exceed 100 meters 328 feet 3 1 1 Installing the Switch on a Flat Surface The switch should be installed on a level surface that can support the weight of the switches and ...

Page 9: ...can use Ethernet cable to connect computers directly to the switch ports You can also connect hubs switches to the switch ports by Ethernet cables Note that both the crossover or straight through Ethernet cable can be used to connect computers hubs or switches 3 2 3 Step 3 Attach the power cord 1 Plug the female end of the AC power cord to the POWER receptacle on the back of the switch 2 Check the...

Page 10: ...rt the CNM application CNM will display a window as shown below Note This version of CNM only manages the switches in the same network LED Indicators This LED Should be POWER Solid green to indicate that the device is turned on If this light is not on check if the power cord is attached to the switch and if it is plugged into a power source STATUS of Solid green amber to indicate that the device c...

Page 11: ...GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 11 Figure 3 2 CNM Outlook GigaX 1024P Figure 3 2 1 CNM Outlook GigaX 1024I ...

Page 12: ...024I Figure 3 3 Available Switches GigaX 1024P 3 Select the proper NIC at the same network with the switch then click on the Discovery icon in the tool bar After the discovery is done the left frame of the window will show the MAC addresses of the switches discovered by the CNM as shown below ...

Page 13: ...make a loop by port 3 and 4 The password will reset to default value 3 Remain the loop about 1 minute to let the password reset happen 4 Unplug the cable then power cycle the switch You can manage the switch by default password 3 3 3 Factory Default Setting You can reset the switch configuration back to factory default value by the similar steps as the password recovery Instead of looping port 3 a...

Page 14: ...er running Windows OS Refer to CNM installation guide for detail installation steps 2 The computer with CNM installed must be in the same network as the switches are 3 Make sure the switches are power on and the network links are good 4 Click the CNM icon on the PC s desktop A CNM window will appear as below This computer becomes the manage station to the switches 5 Figures below shows that a pass...

Page 15: ...able 3 1 Each port shows different states by different colors shown as Table 4 1 The left frame a topology frame as shown in Figure 4 3 contains all the NICs in the manage station Each NIC has a tree view to show the switches that are discovered by CNM You can click on any of these to display a specific configuration of the switch Table 4 1 Description of Port Color Green Blinking port Ethernet li...

Page 16: ... or graphics for the statistics That is it displays different configuration layout for different model Section 4 5 will describe GigaX Smart Switch configuration in details You have to specify a switch by clicking one switch in the topology list Figure 4 3 A Topology Frame The left frame a topology frame as shown in Figure 4 3 contains all the NICs in the manage station Each NIC has a tree view to...

Page 17: ...onding function icon in the tool bar 4 Update detect if the communications between the CNM station and the discovered switches is good or not The switch icon will show to indicate that the communication is broken 4 3 General Settings for CNM There are menu bar and tool bar on the top of the CNM window They offer general settings for CNM The Topology item provides the general network discovery manu...

Page 18: ...the switch to attach to give the switch MAC and name and an authentication key as the password if you don t use the default one 2379 then click OK to finish the action However a manually added switch does not mean it can be configured or discovered by CNM The function provides a way to add a known switch to topology list once the CNM cannot discover the switch There is a tool bar button for it Fig...

Page 19: ...used to poll the switch statistics and link status on the top of the window The interval value could be adjusted from 0 to 300 seconds 0 means no polling at all There is a tool bar button for it Figure 4 9 Auto Update Time Interval Figure 4 7 Remove Switch 6 RemoveSwitch youcanremoveanyswitchinthetopologylistmanuallythrough this function It pops out a switch list and check those switches you want ...

Page 20: ... among the switch It helps design and debug your network Each is a switch with name and MAC address followed You can assign a name to the switch by click the right button on the mouse while the mouse is point to the switch MAC address Note All the switch names are kept in CNM file but not in the switches So if you use CNM to manage the same switch on another management station the name may be diff...

Page 21: ...1 Adapter select the corresponding adapter to add a switch under it 2 Switch check the box if you want the new switch to be added under a specified switch in the topology tree The manually added switch will be moved to a right place to show the relationships in the topology after a successful discovery 3 MAC the most important information is the MAC address If the MAC is wrong the new added switch...

Page 22: ...he box before the switch to select those you want to remove click the remove icon to start the action All the corresponding switches will be removed and the tree branch after the removed switches are moved up to under the adapter A discovery action will update the topology tree for the current network You may find the removed switches are back to the topology tree because they are discovered again...

Page 23: ... ports Note Check the message bar on the bottom to make sure you are working on the proper switch before any configuration set up Before starting any new configuration it is always recommended to reload the current switch configuration This will help you know what you are going to change and the communication between CNM and the switch is good There is a message bar on the bottom showing the NIC s...

Page 24: ...vided Hardware reset returns the system to its initial state just like power on hardware reset Figure 4 13 Reboot GigaX 1024P Software reset will return the system to the initial state and start port link negotiations but the MAC table VLAN table data and configuration settings will not be erased Note Hardware reset will clear all configuration settings Figure 4 13 1 Reboot GigaX 1024I ...

Page 25: ... Status Link status table shows the port information including speed duplex mode and flow control Click on the Reload button will get the update information Figure 4 14 shows the status table Figure 4 14 Link Status GigaX 1024P Figure 4 14 1 Link Status GigaX 1024I ...

Page 26: ...After it you have to remove the switch from the topology and discover the switch again After changing the password CNM will show a dialog box for administrators to save the topology or not If not administrators will have to do two jobs when CNM starts up next time First manually add the switch according to section 4 4 2 Second change password again and replace 0x2379 with correct one Figure 4 14 2...

Page 27: ... can load configuration from the switch or the local file as shown below This action will update the current configuration in the CNM If you want to keep the current configuration please refer to section 4 6 5 Figure 4 15 Load GigaX 1024P Figure 4 15 1 Load GigaX 1024I ...

Page 28: ...u create a configuration file in CNM you can use it to apply to the other switches to save your time It is also a backup file for configuration It is recommended to have a good file name to identify that the configuration is for the certain switch es Figure 4 16 Save Configuration GigaX 1024P Figure 4 16 1 Save Configuration GigaX 1024I ...

Page 29: ...ll the current settings in CNM to the switch and save them in the switch permanently It is recommended to back up the existed switch configurations before applying a new configuration to the switch Figure 4 17 Apply Configuration GigaX 1024P Figure 4 17 1 Apply Configuration GigaX 1024I ...

Page 30: ...gation bandwidth control traffic control VLAN IGMP snooping and QoS To keep all the new configurations and save the bandwidth for communications each configuration page will not retrieve information from switch until you click the Reload button In some configuration pages you can select the ports to reload the information from the switch 4 7 1 Physical Interface Figure 4 18 Physical Interface Giga...

Page 31: ...ck on Apply to apply the new settings to the switch Some settings you can do to the physical interface 1 Enable or disable a port 2 Speed and duplex mode Select 1000 full duplex GigaX 1024P only on the Fast Ethernet ports from 1 to 24 will set the ports to 100 full duplex mode 3 Flow control Back pressure flow control is used in half and full duplex modes to prevent packet loss A software reset wi...

Page 32: ...32 GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 4 7 2 Link Aggregation Figure 4 19 Link Aggregation GigaX 1024P Figure 4 19 1 Link Aggregation GigaX 1024I ...

Page 33: ...ns shown above ClickontheReloadbuttontoretrievetheconfigurationfromswitch Thechecked trunk group means this group has been activated You can check the trunk group to enable new trunk or uncheck the trunk group to disable the trunks Click on Apply to make them effective in the switch The Trunking Status shows the ports work as trunk ports currently A green light in the port means the port is workin...

Page 34: ...control for each port Please reload the configuration before you start to set up new configuration The page is shown above Select the ports you want to configure then select proper bandwidth for TX RX directions Click on Apply to apply to the switch Figure 4 20 1 Bandwidth Configuration GigaX 1024I ...

Page 35: ...em will drop broadcast packets under a congestion condition Otherwise the broadcast packet will be forwarded to non congested ports Again please reload the settings from the switch before starting to do new configurations 4 7 5 VLAN Setup A VLAN is simply a configured broadcast domain An administrator applies VLAN to separate a network VLAN Setup provides administers abilities to set up port based...

Page 36: ...36 GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management Figure 4 21 VLAN GigaX 1024P Figure 4 21 1 VLAN GigaX 1024I ...

Page 37: ... destination port L2 table hit at different VLAN 9 ARP broadcast packet inter VLAN leaky to enable ARP frame to broadcast to all switch ports 10 IP multicast packet inter VLAN leaky to enable IP multicast packet to be flooded to all the multicast address group member set ignore the VLAN member set domain limitation 11 802 1Q VLAN tag aware to enable tag based VLAN function 12 Ingress rule for acce...

Page 38: ... IGMP snooping will let the switch learn the multicast router port and group address member ports into the multicast address table The table is combined with L2 MAC table so the maximum entry is 8K The valid port member will auto aging out after about 5 minute idle See figures below Figure 4 23 1 IGMP Snoop GigaX 1024I ...

Page 39: ...e if the field value is expected forwarding 0b101110 assured forwarding 0b001010 0b010010 0b011010 0b100010 network control 0b11x000 If 802 1p based priority is enabled the packet forward priority is decided by the CoS value The high priority packets have the CoS value from 4 to 7 In some situations you may want the high priority packets to get forwarded even the 802 3x flow control stop transmitt...

Page 40: ...40 GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management Figure 4 24 1 QoS Setup GigaX 1024I ...

Page 41: ... That is the old statistics data will be gone if you start to use the counter for another statistics 4 8 1 Port Traffic Select port number the statistics item and color to draw the traffic chart The chart will be auto updated in the time interval you set in Setup menu Refer to 4 3 2 for time interval setup Press the Draw Traffic Chart button to start drawing Figure 4 25 Port Traffic GigaX 1024P Fi...

Page 42: ... ports and colors you want to see in the chart then press the Draw Traffic Chart button to start the drawing The chart will be auto updated in the time interval you set in Setup menu Refer to 4 3 2 for time interval setup Figure 4 26 Traffic History GigaX 1024P Figure 4 26 1 Traffic History GigaX 1024I ...

Page 43: ...tics item to do comparison for port 1 to 26 ports 25 26 on GigaX 1024P only Press the Draw Traffic Chart button to start the drawing The chart will be auto updated in the time interval you set in Setup menu Figure 4 27 Port Comparison GigaX 1024P Figure 4 27 1 Port Comparison GigaX 1024I ...

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