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Network-wide Multidevice VLAN Configuration
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Figure 41: Connection Information for a new port member of a VLAN
When you click Apply to create the VLAN, EPICenter will create the VLAN on all the specified devices
with the specified ports. By using multi-threading EPICenter can initiate these requests concurrently on
multiple devices, thus reducing the overall elapsed time required to implement those changes on the
devices.
When you modify VLAN membership to delete port members or add new ports or devices and ports,
again EPICenter will perform any configuration changes needed across all devices in the VLAN.
You can modify a VLAN either by clicking the Modify button in the VLAN Manager Toolbar, or by
selecting a VLAN or device and selecting Modify VLAN Membership from the right-click pop-up
menu. Modify VLAN Membership is available on the right-click pop-up menu from a selected device or
VLAN in the By VLAN Component Tree, and from a selected VLAN (but not from a selected device) in
the By Switch Component Tree.
The Modify VLAN Membership dialog lets you add and delete ports and devices and ports from the
selected VLAN; the Modify VLAN dialog also lets you change other VLAN properties (such as its tag
or Protocol Filter) and change the IP Forwarding behavior, if necessary.
Modifying VLANs from a Topology Map
From a Topology map, you can add ports to the VLANs in your network in two ways:
• You can select one or more links on the map, and add them to an existing VLAN. Adding a link to a
VLAN will create the VLAN on the devices and ports that define the endpoints of the link(s) you
select (or add the appropriate port to the VLAN if it already exists on the device). You can also
create a new VLAN using the Add Links to VLAN feature.
• You can select a device on the map, and add device edge ports to an existing VLAN.
You do not need to be displaying VLAN information to perform these functions.
To add links to a VLAN:
1 Select one or more links on the map (using Shift-click to select multiple links)
2 Click Add Links to VLAN from the Tools menu.
This opens a dialog where you can select a VLAN to which the links should be added, or you can
specify that they should be added to a new VLAN.