Dell 5324 - PowerConnect Switch User manual

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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
Glossary

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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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Figure 6-27. SNTP Servers Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Figure 6-28. Add SNTP Interface Page . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Figure 6-29. Global Log Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Figure 6-30. RAM Log Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Figure 6-31. Log File Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Figure 6-32. Remote Log Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Figure 6-33. Add a Log Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Figure 6-34. Remote Log Servers Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Figure 6-35. IP Interface Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Figure 6-36. Add a Static Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Figure 6-37. IP Interface Parameter Table . . . . . . . . . . 122
Figure 6-38. DHCP IP Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Figure 6-39. Domain Naming System (DNS) . . . . . . . . . . 127
Figure 6-40. Add DNS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Figure 6-41. DNS Server Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Figure 6-42. Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Figure 6-43. Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Figure 6-44. Add Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Figure 6-45. Hosts Name Mapping Table . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Figure 6-46. ARP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Figure 6-47. Add ARP Entry Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Figure 6-48. ARP Table Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Figure 6-49. Integrated Cable Test for Copper Cables . . . . . 139
Figure 6-50. Optical Transceiver Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . 142
Figure 6-51. Access Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Figure 6-52. Add An Access Profile Page . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Figure 6-53. Add An Access Profile Rule . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Figure 6-54. Profile Rules Table Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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Figure 6-55. Authentication Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Figure 6-56. Add Authentication Profile Page . . . . . . . . . 153
Figure 6-57. Authentication Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Figure 6-58. Select Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Figure 6-59. Local User Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Figure 6-60. Add User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Figure 6-61. Local User Table Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Figure 6-62. Line Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Figure 6-63. Modify Enable Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Figure 6-64. TACACS+ Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Figure 6-65. Add TACACS+ Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Figure 6-66. TACACS+ Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Figure 6-67. RADIUS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Figure 6-68. Add RADIUS Server Page . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Figure 6-69. Show all RADIUS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Figure 6-70. SNMP Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Figure 6-71. Add SNMP Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Figure 6-72. Community Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Figure 6-73. SNMP Trap Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Figure 6-74. Add Trap Receiver/Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Figure 6-75. Trap Managers Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Figure 6-76. File Download From Server . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Figure 6-77. File Upload to Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Figure 6-78. Copy Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Figure 6-79. General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Figure 7-80. Port Based Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Figure 7-81. Port Based Authentication Table . . . . . . . . . 201
Figure 7-82. Multiple Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

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Figure 7-83. Multiple Hosts Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Figure 7-84. Authenticated Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Figure 7-85. Authenticated Users Table . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Figure 7-86. Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Figure 7-87. Port Security Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Figure 7-88. Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Figure 7-89. Ports Configuration Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Figure 7-90. LAG Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Figure 7-91. LAG Configuration Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Figure 7-92. Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Figure 7-93. Storm Control Settings Table . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Figure 7-94. Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Figure 7-95. Static MAC Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Figure 7-96. Dynamic Address Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Figure 7-97. GARP Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Figure 7-98. STP Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Figure 7-99. STP Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Figure 7-100. STP LAG Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Figure 7-101. Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Figure 7-102. VLAN Membership Page . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Figure 7-103. VLAN Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Figure 7-104. VLAN LAG Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Figure 7-105. Protocol Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Figure 7-106. Protocol Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Figure 7-107. GVRP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Figure 7-108. LACP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Figure 7-109. LAG Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Figure 7-110. Multicast Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 280

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Figure 7-111. Bridge Multicast Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Figure 7-112. Add Bridge Multicast Group . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Figure 7-113. Bridge Multicast Forward All . . . . . . . . . . 287
Figure 7-114. IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Figure 8-115. Utilization Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Figure 8-116. Counter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Figure 8-117. Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Figure 8-118. Etherlike Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Figure 8-119. GVRP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Figure 8-120. EAP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Figure 8-121. RMON Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Figure 8-122. RMON History Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Figure 8-123. RMON History Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Figure 8-124. RMON Events Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Figure 8-125. RMON Events Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Figure 8-126. RMON Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Figure 8-127. Add an Alarm Entry Page . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Figure 8-128. Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Figure 8-129. LAG Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Figure 9-130. QoS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Figure 9-131. Interface Cos/QoS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Figure 9-132. Global Queue Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Figure 9-133. CoS to Queue Mapping Table . . . . . . . . . . 347
Figure 9-134. DSCP Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Tables
Table 2-1. RJ-45 Copper based 10/100/1000BaseT LED Indications 32

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Table 2-2. SFP Port LED Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Table 2-3. System LED Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Table 3-4. Ports, Connectors and Cables . . . . . . . . . . 41
Table 3-5. RJ-45 Pin Number Allocation for 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet
Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Table 3-6. Port Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Table 5-7. Interface Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Table 5-8. Led Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Table 5-9. Information Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Table 5-10. Device Management Buttons . . . . . . . . . . 68
Table 6-11. Asset CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Table 6-12. Clock Setting CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Table 6-13. System Health CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 86
Table 6-14. Versions CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Table 6-15. Reset CLI Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Table 6-16. SNTP Global Parameters CLI Commands . . . . . 93
Table 6-17. SNTP Authentication CLI Commands . . . . . . . 96
Table 6-18. SNTP Server CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Table 6-19. SNTP Server CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Table 6-20. SNTP Broadcast CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 102
Table 6-21. Log Severity Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Table 6-22. Global Log Parameters CLI Commands . . . . . . 107
Table 6-23. RAM Log Table CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 110
Table 6-24. Log File Table CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 113
Table 6-25. Remote Log Server CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 118
Table 6-26. Default Gateway CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 119
Table 6-27. IP Interface Parameters CLI Commands . . . . . 123
Table 6-28. DHCP IP Interface CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 126

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Table 6-29. DNS Server CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Table 6-30. DNS Domain Name CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 131
Table 6-31. Domain Host Name CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 134
Table 6-32. ARP Settings CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Table 6-33. Copper Cable Test CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 141
Table 6-34. Fiber Optic Cable Test CLI Commands . . . . . . 143
Table 6-35. Access Profiles CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 149
Table 6-36. Authentication Profile CLI Commands . . . . . . 154
Table 6-37. Select Authentication CLI Commands . . . . . . 157
Table 6-38. Local User Database CLI Commands . . . . . . . 161
Table 6-39. Line Password CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 163
Table 6-40. Modify Enable Password CLI Commands . . . . . 165
Table 6-41. TACACS+ CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Table 6-42. RADIUS Settings CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 175
Table 6-43. SNMP Community CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 180
Table 6-44. SNMP Trap Settings CLI Commands . . . . . . . 184
Table 6-45. File Download CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 189
Table 6-46. File Upload CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Table 6-47. Copy Files CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Table 6-48. General Settings CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 194
Table 7-49. Port Authentication CLI Commands . . . . . . . 202
Table 7-50. Multiple Hosts CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 206
Table 7-51. Add User Name CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 208
Table 7-52. Port Security CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Table 7-53. Port Configuration CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 217
Table 7-54. LAG Configuration CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 223
Table 7-55. Storm Control CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 227
Table 7-56. Port Mirroring CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 230

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Table 7-57. Static Address CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 233
Table 7-58. Query and Sort CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 236
Table 7-59. GARP Timer CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Table 7-60. STP Global Parameter CLI Commands . . . . . . 242
Table 7-61. STP Port Settings CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 247
Table 7-62. STP LAG Settings CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 250
Table 7-63. RSTP Settings CLI Command . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Table 7-64. VLAN Membership Group CLI Commands . . . . . 256
Table 7-65. VLAN Port Membership Table . . . . . . . . . . 257
Table 7-66. Port-to-VLAN Group Assignments CLI Commands . 258
Table 7-67. VLAN Port CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Table 7-68. LAG VLAN Assignments CLI Commands . . . . . 265
Table 7-69. VLAN Protocol Groups CLI Commands . . . . . . 268
Table 7-70. Protocol Port CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Table 7-71. GVRP Global Parameters CLI Commands . . . . . 272
Table 7-72. LACP Parameters CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 276
Table 7-73. LAG Membership CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 279
Table 7-74. Multicast Forwarding and Snooping CLI Commands 281
Table 7-75. IGMP Port/LAG Members Table Control Settings . 283
Table 7-76. Multicast Service Member CLI Commands . . . . 284
Table 7-77. Bridge Multicast Forward All Router/Port Control Settings Table
287
Table 7-78. CLI Commands for Managing LAGs and Ports Attached to
Multicast Routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Table 7-79. IGMP Snooping CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 291
Table 8-80. Interface Statistics CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 300
Table 8-81. Etherlike Statistics CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 304
Table 8-82. GVRP Statistics CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 307

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Table 8-83. GVRP Statistics CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 311
Table 8-84. RMON Statistics CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 315
Table 8-85. RMON History CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 317
Table 8-86. RMON History Control CLI Commands . . . . . . 320
Table 8-87. Device Event Definition CLI Commands . . . . . . 322
Table 8-88. Device Event Definition CLI Commands . . . . . . 324
Table 8-89. Device Alarm CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 328
Table 8-90. Port Statistic CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Table 8-91. LAG Statistic CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Table 9-92. CoS to Queue Mapping Table Default values . . . 336
Table 9-93. DSCP to Queue Mapping Table Default Values . . 337
Table 9-94. CoS Setting CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Table 9-95. CoS Interface CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 343
Table 9-96. Queue Settings CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 345
Table 9-97. CoS to Queue Settings CLI Commands . . . . . . 348
Table 9-98. DSCP Value to Queue CLI Commands . . . . . . 350
Table 10-99. Port Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Table 10-100. Operating Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Table 10-101. Physical Device Specifications . . . . . . . . . 352
Table 10-102. Device Memory Specifications . . . . . . . . . . 352

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Introduction
NOTICE: Before proceeding, read the release notes for this product. The release notes can be
downloaded from support.dell.com.
This User Guide contains the information needed for installing, configuring and maintaining the
PowerConnect device.
PowerConnect 5324
The PowerConnect 5324 has 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports. There are also four SFP fiber ports that are
designated as combo port alternatives to Ethernet ports 21-24. The combo ports are single ports
with two physical connections. When one is connected the other is disabled.
Figure 1-1 and Figure 1-2 illustrates the PowerConnect 5324 front and back panels.
Figure 1-1. PowerConnect 5324 Front Panel
Figure 1-2. PowerConnect 5324 Back Panel
Features
This section describes the device user-configured features. For a complete list of all updated device
features, refer to the latest software version Release Notes.

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General Features
Head of Line Blocking
Head of Line (HOL) blocking results in traffic delays and frame loss caused by traffic competing
for the same egress port resources. HOL blocking queues packets, and the packets at the head of
the queue are forwarded before packets at the end of the queue.
Virtual Cable Testing (VCT)
VCT detects and reports copper link cabling occurrences, such as open cables and cable shorts.
Jumbo Frames Support
Jumbo frames enables transporting the identical data in fewer frames. Ensuring less overhead,
lower processing time, and fewer interrupts.
For information on enabling Jumbo Frames, see "Defining General Device Information".
MDI/MDIX Support
The device supports auto-detection between crossed and straight-through cables.
Standard wiring for end stations is Media-Dependent Interface (MDI) and the
s tandard wiring for
hubs and switches is known as Media-Dependent Interface with Crossover (MDIX).
For information on configuring MDI/MDI for ports or Link Aggregate Groups (LAGs), see
"Defining Port Parameters" or "Defining LAG Parameters".
Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3X)
Flow control enables lower speed devices to communicate with higher speed devices, by requesting
that the higher speed device refrains from sending packets. Transmissions are temporarily halted to
prevent buffer overflows.
For information on configuring Flow Control for ports or LAGs, see "Defining Port Parameters" or
"Defining LAG Parameters".
Back Pressure Support
On half-duplex links, the receiving port prevents buffer overflows by occupying the link so that it is
unavailable for additional traffic.
For information on configuring Back Pressure for ports or LAGs, see "Defining Port Parameters" or
"Defining LAG Parameters".