Avaya C360 Manager Operating and maintenance instructions

Installation and Configuration for
the Avaya C360 Converged
Stackable Switches
Software Version 4.5
10-601564
Issue 1
July 2006

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Before you Install the Avaya C360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Conventions Used in the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
CLI Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 1: Avaya C360 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 1: Avaya C360 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
C360 Features and Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Stacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Network Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Manageability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
VLAN Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Quality of Service (QoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Power over Ethernet (PoE) Support on C360-PWR switches. . . . . . . . . . 24
Layer 3 Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Management Interface Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
C360 Switch Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Section 2: Installing the C360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 2: Avaya C360 Front and Rear Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
C360 Front Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
C360 Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 3: Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Preparing Needed Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Site Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Rack Mounting (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Before you Install the C360 in a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Wall Mounting (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Stacking (optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installing the X360STK Stacking Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Inter-Connecting Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
To connect stacked switches: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Making Connections to Network Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Connecting Cables to Network Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Installing SFP GBIC Transceivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Usage Restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing and Removing a SFP GBIC Transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Copper GBIC Transceiver Installation Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 4: Powering Up the Avaya C360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Connecting to an AC Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
AC Power Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Connecting to a DC Power Source (C364T NEBS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Connecting a BUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Supplemental Earthing of the C360 (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Sample Backup Power Supply Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Budgeting Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Post-Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 5: Establishing Switch Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CLI Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Security Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Entering the Supervisor Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Defining new local users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Exiting the Supervisor Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Entering the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Establishing a Console Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Assigning C360 IP Stack Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Establishing a Telnet Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Establishing an SSH Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Introduction to SSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SSH client connection: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
User Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Procedure for Establishing an SSH Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SSH Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Establishing Access to Other Entities in the Stack (C360 Sessions) . . . . . . . 70
Establishing a Modem (PPP) Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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Connecting a Modem to the Console Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SNMP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Introduction to SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SNMP Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Managers and Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Manager/Agent Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SNMPv1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
SNMPv2c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
SNMPv3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
SNMP Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
RADIUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Introduction to RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
RADIUS Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Recovery Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Introduction to Recovery Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Recovery Password CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Allowed Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Allowed Managers Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Allowed Managers CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Allowed Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Allowed Protocols Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Allowed Protocols CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Section 3: Avaya C360 Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Chapter 6: Avaya C360 Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Configuring the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
C360 Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chapter 7: Switch Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Basic Switch Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
System Parameter Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Identifying the system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Network Time Acquiring Protocols Parameter Configuration . . . . . . . . . 97

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Uploading and Downloading Device Configurations and Images . . . . . . . . . 99
Layer 2 Configuration File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Layer 3 Configuration File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
SCP Protocol Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
System Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
System Logging Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
System Logging Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Message Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Syslog Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Telnet Client Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Introduction to Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Telnet Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Monitoring CPU Utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Chapter 8: Avaya C360 Layer 2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Fast Ethernet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Gigabit Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Configuring Ethernet Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Auto-Negotiation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Full-Duplex/Half-Duplex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
MDI/MDI-X Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
MAC Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
CAM Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
MAC Aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Ethernet Configuration CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
VLAN Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
VLAN Tagging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Multi VLAN Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Ingress VLAN Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
VLAN CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
IEEE 802.1x (Port Based Network Access Control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
How 802.1x Authentication Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
IEEE 802.1x Implementation in the C360. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Configuring the C360 for 802.1x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

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802.1x CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Spanning Tree Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Spanning Tree Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Spanning Tree per Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
About the 802.1w Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Port Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Spanning Tree Implementation in the C360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Spanning Tree Protocol CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
MAC Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
MAC Security Implementation in the C360. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
MAC Security CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
LAG (Link Aggregate Group) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
LAG Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
LAG CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
LAG Implementation in the C360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Port Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Port Redundancy Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Intermodule Port Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Port Redundancy CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Port Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Port Classification CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
IP Multicast Filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
IP Multicast CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
RMON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
RMON Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
RMON CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
SMON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
SMON Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
SMON CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Port Mirroring Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Port Mirroring CLI commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Port Mirroring Implementation in the C360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Weighted Queuing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Implementation of Weighted Queuing in the C360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

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Weighted Queuing CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
LLDP Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
LLDP Agent Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Supported TLVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Configuring the LLDP Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
LLDP Agent CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Chapter 9: Avaya C360 Layer 3 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Obtaining and Activating a License Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Obtaining a Routing License Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Activating a Routing License Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
License Key CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
What is Routing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Routing Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Multinetting (Multiple Subnets per VLAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
IP Configuration CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Assigning Initial Router Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
RIP (Routing Interchange Protocol) Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
RIP Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
RIP2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
RIP CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
OSPF Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
OSPF CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Static Routing Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Static Routing Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Static Routing Configuration CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Route Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Route Redistribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Route Redistribution Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) Table Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
ARP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
The ARP Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
ARP CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
BOOTP/DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Relay Configuration . . . 175
BOOTP/DHCP Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
BOOTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

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DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
DHCP/BOOTP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
BOOTP/DHCP CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
NetBIOS Re-broadcast Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
NetBIOS Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
NetBIOS Re-broadcast Configuration CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
VRRP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
VRRP Configuration Example 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Case#1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Case #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
VRRP CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Policy Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Policy Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Policy Configuration CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Policy Configuration Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Policy Configuration Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
IP Fragmentation and Reassembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
IP Fragmentation and Reassembly Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
IP Fragmentation/Reassembly CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter 10: Avaya C360 Power over Ethernet Features . . . . . . . . . 187
Power Over Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Load Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
How the C360-PWR Switches Detect a Powered Device . . . . . . . . . . 188
Specific Resistance Signature (IEEE 802.3af) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
PD Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
“Plug and Play" Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Powering Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Power over Ethernet in Converged Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Power over Ethernet CLI Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Chapter 11: C360 Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Configuring the Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Device Manager Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Running the Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

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Installing the Java Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Installing from the C360 Documentation and Utilities CD . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Install from the Avaya Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Install from your Local Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Installing the On-Line Help and Java Plug-In on your Web Site . . . . . . . . . . 198
Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Section 4: Troubleshooting and Maintaining the Avaya C360 . . . 199
Chapter 12: Troubleshooting the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Troubleshooting the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Stack Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Implementation of Stack Health in the C360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Stack Health CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Chapter 13: Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Replacing the Stacking Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Hardware NVRAM Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Chapter 14: Updating the Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Firmware Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Obtain Software Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Downloading Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Download New Version without Overwriting Existing Version . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Firmware Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Appendix A: Mixed Stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Hardware Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Stacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
BUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Feature Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
QoS Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Appendix B: Configuring C360 QoS for Avaya IP Telephones . . . . . . 219
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

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Appendix C: Standards and Compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Avaya C360 Standards Supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
IEEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
IETF - Layer 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
IETF - Layer 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
IETF - Network Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Appendix D: Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Physical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Power Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Environmental.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
MTBF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
GBIC Transceivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
LX Transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
SX Transceiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
ELX Transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Copper Transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Console Pin Assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

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Before you Install the Avaya C360
Safety Information
!WARNING:
WARNING: ONLY TRAINED AND QUALIFIED PERSONNEL SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO
INSTALL OR REPLACE THIS EQUIPMENT.
!ADVERTENCIA:
ADVERTENCIA: SOLAMENTE PERSONAL CALIFICADO Y ENTRENADO DEBE INSTALAR O
REEMPLAZAR ESTE EQUIPO.
!WARNING:
WARNING: EQUIPMENT MUST BE CONNECTED TO AN EARTHED MAINS
SOCKET-OUTLET.
!ADVERTENCIA:
ADVERTENCIA: El equipo se debe conectar a una toma de tierra principal.
!CAUTION:
CAUTION: C360 switches and stacking modules contain components sensitive to
electrostatic discharge. Touching the circuit boards unless instructed to do so
may damage them.
!PRECAUCIÓN:
PRECAUCION: El switch C360 y sus módulos de ampliación contienen componentes sensibles a
descargas electrostáticas. Tocar las tarjetas sin autorización del personal técnico
puede dañarlas.
!CAUTION:
CAUTION: Do not leave the stacking slots open. Cover empty slots using the blanking plates
supplied.
!PRECAUCIÓN:
PRECAUCION: No deje las aberturas de ampliación abiertas. Cubrir las aberturas vacias con las
placas bloqueadoras proporcionadas con el equipo.
!WARNING:
WARNING: The fans are on whenever the switch is powered.

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!ADVERTENCIA:
ADVERTENCIA: Los ventiladores están encendidos siempre que el equipo esté conectado
al suministro eléctrico.
Conventions Used in the Documentation
Documentation for this product uses the following conventions to convey instructions and
information:
CLI Conventions
●Mandatory keywords are in the computer bold font.
●Information displayed on screen is displayed in computer font.
●Variables that you supply are in pointed brackets < >.
●Optional keywords are in square brackets [ ].
●Alternative but mandatory keywords are grouped in braces {} and separated by a vertical
bar |.
●Lists of parameters from which you should choose are enclosed in square brackets [ ] and
separated by a vertical bar |.
●If you enter an alphanumeric string of two words or more, enclose the string in “quotation
marks”.

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
!CAUTION:
CAUTION: You should take care. You could do something that may damage equipment or
result in loss of data.
!PRECAUCIÓN:
PRECAUCION: Debe tener cuidado. Usted podría hacer algo que puede dañar el equipo o
resultar en pérdida de datos.
!WARNING:
WARNING: This means danger. Failure to follow the instructions or warnings may result in
bodily injury. You should ensure that you are qualified for this task and have read
and understood all the instructions.
!ADVERTENCIA:
ADVERTENCIA: Indica peligro. El no seguir las instrucciones o advertencias puede resultar
en lesión corporal. Asegúrese de estar preparado para esta tarea y de haber
leído y entendido todas las instrucciones.

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Chapter 1: Avaya C360 Overview
The C360 is a line of converged stackable switches that provide high availability, quality of
service (QoS), and IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) to enhance converged network
infrastructure operations. With a range of PoE and non-PoE configurations, the C360 series is a
powerful, yet cost-effective option for enterprise applications.
With C360 switches, you can deploy PoE and multilayer switching using one switch, while
maintaining the simplicity and the cost effectiveness of Avaya stackable switches.
Tip:
Tip: For clarity, the nomenclature described in Table 1 will be used in the C360
documentation:
C360 Features and Benefits
Stacking
●You may create logical stacks of up to ten switches that you manage and configure as a
single switch.
●Stacking is based on the Octaplane™ stacking system that provides eight Gbps stacking
bandwidth to all switches in the stack.
●Each member of the stack is connected to the other members using a dedicated stacking
module and cables.
Table 1: Nomenclature
This term... Means...
C360 ●C363T
●C363T-PWR
●C364T
●C364T NEBS
●C364T-PWR
C360-PWR ●C363T-PWR
●C364T-PWR

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●When the switches are stacked, the switches elect one switch as the master, while the
other switches act as slaves. The master switch acts as the stack management agent
reporting to the management system.
●Management redundancy - if the master unit fails, the remaining switches elect a new
switch as the master, and the original stack configuration and IP address are maintained.
●You can add, remove and replace switches in the stack without disrupting operation.
●Auto-reconfiguration for replaced switch - the configuration of the units is distributed over
the stack. When you replace a unit, you do not need to reconfigure stack-level parameters
such as Spanning Tree, IP address and port redundancy.
Network Optimization
●Autosensing of port speed and autonegotiation of duplex mode on all switch ports for
optimizing bandwidth.
●IEEE 802.3x flow control on all Ethernet ports.
●Auto MDI/MDI-X (cross-over cable) detection allows use of both straight and crossover
cables without the need to configure ports individually.
●LAGs (Link Aggregate Group) provide enhanced fault tolerance and aggregated
bandwidth of up to 800 Mbps (on 10/100BASE-T ports) or 2 Gbps (on 1000BASE-X ports).
- Ideal for high-bandwidth connections to servers, routers and switches.
- Refer to LAG (Link Aggregate Group) on page 134 for further information.
●IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) Snooping for limiting flooding of multicast
traffic.
Manageability
●SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) or TIME protocol for providing a consistent
timestamp to all switches from an external source. Refer to Network Time Acquiring
Protocols Parameter Configuration on page 97.
●In-band management access:
- C360 Device Manager with intuitive Web-based access. Refer to C360 Device
Manager on page 193 for further information.
- Up to five simultaneous Telnet connections for multiple CLI (Command Line
Interface)-based sessions over the network. Refer to Establishing a Telnet
Connection on page 65 for further information.