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Dell™ PowerConnect™ 5324 System

User Guide

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May 2007

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Contents

1 Introduction

PowerConnect 5324 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

General Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

MAC Address Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Layer 2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

VLAN Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Spanning Tree Protocol Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Layer 3 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Quality of Service Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Device Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Locked Port Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Additional CLI Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

2 Hardware Description

Device Port Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

PowerConnect 5324 Front Panel Port Description . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

PowerConnect Back Panel Port Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Device Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Physical Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Port LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Hardware Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Reset Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Ventilation System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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3 Installing the PowerConnect Device

Installation Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Site Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Unpacking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Package Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Unpacking the Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Mounting the Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Mounting the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Installing the Device without a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting the Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting a Device to a Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting a Device to a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Port Connections, Cables, and Pinout Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

RJ-45 Connections for 10/100/1000BaseT Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Port Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Auto-Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

MDI/MDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Back Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Switching Port Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

4 Starting and Configuring the Device

Configure the Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Booting the Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Initial Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Static IP Address and Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Static Route Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Assigning Static IP Addresses on an Inband Interface . . . . . . . . . 49

Verifying the IP and Default Gateway Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

User Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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SNMP Community Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Configuring SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Viewing SNMP Community Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Advanced Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Retrieving an IP Address From a DHCP Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Receiving an IP Address From a BOOTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Security Management and Password Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Configuring Security Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Configuring an Initial Terminal Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuring an Initial Telnet Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuring an Initial SSH Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuring an Initial HTTP Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Configuring an Initial HTTPS Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Startup Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Startup Menu Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Software Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Erase FLASH File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Erasing the Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Password Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Software Download Through TFTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

5 Using Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator

Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Device Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the Switch Administrator Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Information Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Device Management Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Accessing the Device Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Console Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Telnet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Command Mode Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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User EXEC Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Privileged EXEC Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Global Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Interface Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

CLI Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

6 Configuring System Information

Defining General Device Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Viewing the Asset Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Viewing System Health Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Viewing the Versions Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Resetting the Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Configuring SNTP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Polling for Unicast Time Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Polling for Anycast Time Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Broadcast Time Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Defining SNTP Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Defining SNTP Authentication Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Defining SNTP Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Defining SNTP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Managing Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Defining Global Log Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Displaying RAM Log Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Displaying the Log File Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Configuring the Remote Log Server Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . 115

Defining Device IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Defining Default Gateways. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Defining IP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Defining DHCP IP Interface Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Configuring Domain Name Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Defining Default Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Mapping Domain Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Configuring ARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Running Cable Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Viewing Copper Cable Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Viewing Optical Transceiver Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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Managing Device Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Defining Access Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Defining Authentication Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Assigning Authentication Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Defining the Local User Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Defining Line Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Defining Enable Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Defining TACACS+ Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Configuring RADIUS Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Defining SNMP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Defining Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Defining Traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Managing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

File Management Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Downloading Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Uploading Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Copying Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Defining Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Configuring General Device Tuning Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . 193

7 Configuring Device Information

Configuring Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Network Security Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Configuring Port Based Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Configuring Advanced Port Based Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . 203

Authenticating Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Configuring Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Configuring Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Defining Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Defining LAG Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Enabling Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Defining Port Mirroring Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Configuring Address Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Defining Static Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Viewing Dynamic Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

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Configuring GARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Defining GARP Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Configuring the Spanning Tree Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Defining STP Global Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Defining STP Port Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Defining STP LAG Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Configuring Rapid Spanning Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Configuring VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Defining VLAN Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Defining VLAN Ports Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Defining VLAN LAG Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Defining VLAN Protocol Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Adding Protocol Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Configuring GVRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Aggregating Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Defining LACP Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Defining LAG Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Multicast Forwarding Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Defining Multicast Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Adding Bridge Multicast Address Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Assigning Multicast Forward All Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

8 Viewing Statistics

Viewing Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Viewing Utilization Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Viewing Counter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Viewing Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Viewing Etherlike Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Viewing GVRP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Viewing RMON Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Viewing RMON Statistics Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Viewing RMON History Control Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Viewing the RMON History Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Defining Device RMON Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Viewing the RMON Events Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

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Defining RMON Device Alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Viewing Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Viewing Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Viewing LAG Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

9 Configuring Quality of Service

Quality of Service (QoS) Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

CoS Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Defining CoS Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Configuring QoS Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Defining QoS Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Defining Queue Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Mapping CoS Values to Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Mapping DSCP Values to Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

10 Device Specifications

Port and Cable Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Port Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Operating Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Physical Device Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Device Memory Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Feature Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Quality of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Layer 2 Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Device Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Additional Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Device Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

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Figures

Figure 1-1. PowerConnect 5324 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 1-2. PowerConnect 5324 Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 2-3. PowerConnect 5324 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 29

Figure 2-4. Device Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 2-5. Console Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 2-6. RJ-45 Copper based 10/100/1000 BaseT LEDs . . . . 31

Figure 2-7. SFP Port LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 2-8. System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Figure 3-9. Connection Rack Mounting Brackets . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 3-10. Connecting to PowerConnect 5324 Console Port . . 39

Figure 3-11. Connecting to Device Power Connector . . . . . . 40

Figure 4-12. Installation and Configuration Flow . . . . . . . . . 43

Figure 5-13. Switch Administrator Components . . . . . . . . . 65

Figure 5-14. Port LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Figure 6-15. System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Figure 6-16. Asset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Figure 6-17. Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Figure 6-18. System Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 6-19. Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Figure 6-20. Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Figure 6-21. SNTP Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Figure 6-22. SNTP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Figure 6-23. Add Authentication Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Figure 6-24. Authentication Key Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Figure 6-25. SNTP Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Figure 6-26. Add SNTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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