Dell Powerconnect 5316m User manual

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Dell PowerConnect 5316M Ethernet Switch Module

User’s Guide

PC5316M

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October 2004 Rev. A00

Contents 1

Contents

1 Introduction

PowerConnect 5316M and the Dell Modular Server System . . . . . . . . . 9

Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

General Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

MAC Address Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Layer 2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

VLAN Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Spanning Tree Protocol Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Layer 3 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Quality of Service Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Ethernet Switch Module Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Locked Port Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Port Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Additional CLI Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2 Hardware Description

Ethernet Switch Module Port Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

PowerConnect 5316M Front Panel Port Description . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Physical Dimensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Port LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Port Connections, Cables, and Pinout Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

1000 Base-T Cable Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

RJ-45 Connections for 10/100/1000 Base-T Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2Contents

3 Installing the Ethernet Switch Module

Installation Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Unpacking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Package Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Unpacking the Ethernet Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Major Components of the Ethernet Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing and Removing a Ethernet Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Ethernet Controller Enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

System Reliability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Handling Static Sensitive Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Installing the Ethernet Switch Module into Dell Modular Server Chassis. . . 28

Removing a Ethernet Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Accessing the Ethernet Switch Module CLI User Interface via

DRAC/MC Console Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Connecting Network to an Ethernet Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

External Port Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Auto-Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

MDI/MDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Back Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4 Starting and Configuring the Ethernet Switch Module

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Accessing Startup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Initial Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Static IP Address and Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Static Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Contents 3

Assigning Static IP Addresses on a Default VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Verifying the IP and Default Gateway Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

User Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

SNMP Community Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Configuring SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Viewing SNMP Community Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Advanced Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Retrieving an IP Address From a DHCP Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Receiving an IP Address From a BOOTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Security Management and Password Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Configuring Security Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Configuring an Initial Terminal Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Configuring an Initial Telnet Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Configuring an Initial SSH Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Configuring an Initial HTTP Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Configuring an Initial HTTPS Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Startup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Startup Menu Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Software Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Erase FLASH File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Erasing the Ethernet Switch Module Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Password Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Software Download Through TFTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

5 Using Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator

Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Switch Module Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the OpenManage Switch Administrator Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Information Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Ethernet Switch Module Management Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

4Contents

Accessing the Ethernet Switch Module Through the CLI. . . . . . . . . . . 61

Console Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Telnet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Command Mode Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

User EXEC Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Privileged EXEC Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Global Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Interface Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

CLI Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

6 Configuring System Information

Defining General Switch Module Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Viewing the Asset Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Viewing the Versions Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Resetting the Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Configuring SNTP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Polling for Unicast Time Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Polling for Anycast Time Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Broadcast Time Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Defining SNTP Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Defining SNTP Authentication Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Defining SNTP Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Defining SNTP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Managing Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Defining Global Log Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Displaying RAM Log Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Displaying the Log File Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Configuring the Remote Log Server Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Defining Switch Module IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Defining Default Gateways. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Defining IP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Defining DHCP IP Interface Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Configuring Domain Name Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Defining Default Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Contents 5

Mapping Domain Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Configuring ARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Running Cable Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Viewing Copper Cable Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Managing Switch Module Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Defining Access Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Defining Authentication Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Assigning Authentication Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Defining the Local User Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Defining Line Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Defining Enable Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Defining TACACS+ Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Configuring RADIUS Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Defining SNMP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Defining Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Defining Traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Managing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

File Management Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Downloading Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Uploading Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Copying Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Defining Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Configuring General Switch Module Tuning Parameters. . . . . . . . 165

7 Configuring Switch Module Information

Configuring Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Network Security Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Configuring Port Based Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Configuring Advanced Port Based Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . 174

Authenticating Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Configuring Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Configuring Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Defining Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Defining LAG Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Enabling Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

6Contents

Defining Port Mirroring Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Configuring Address Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Defining Static Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Viewing Dynamic Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Configuring GARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Defining GARP Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Configuring the Spanning Tree Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Defining STP Global Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Defining STP Port Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Defining STP LAG Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Configuring Rapid Spanning Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Configuring VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Defining VLAN Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Defining VLAN Ports Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Defining VLAN LAG Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Defining VLAN Protocol Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Adding Protocol Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Configuring GVRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Aggregating Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Defining LACP Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Defining LAG Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Multicast Forwarding Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Defining Multicast Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Adding Bridge Multicast Address Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Assigning Multicast Forward All Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

8 Viewing Statistics

Viewing Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Viewing Utilization Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Viewing Counter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Viewing Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Viewing Etherlike Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Viewing GVRP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Contents 7

Viewing RMON Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Viewing RMON Statistics Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Viewing RMON History Control Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Viewing RMON History Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Defining Ethernet Switch Module RMON Events . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Viewing the RMON Events Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Defining RMON Ethernet Switch Module Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Viewing Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Viewing Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Viewing LAG Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

9 Configuring Quality of Service

Quality of Service (QoS) Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

CoS Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Defining CoS Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Configuring QoS Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Defining QoS Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Defining Queue Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Mapping CoS Values to Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Mapping DSCP Values to Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

10 Ethernet Switch Module Specifications

Feature Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Quality of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Layer 2 Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Ethernet Switch Module Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Additional Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Ethernet Switch Module Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

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Tables

Table 1-1. Port Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Table 2-2. RJ-45 Copper based 10/100/1000 Base-TLED

Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Table 2-3. System LED Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Table 2-4. Ports, Connectors and Cables . . . . . . . . . . 21

Table 2-5. RJ-45 Pin Number Allocation for

10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet Port . . . . . . . . . 22

Table 5-6. Interface Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Table 5-7. Led Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Table 5-8. Information Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Table 5-9. Ethernet Switch Module Management

Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Table 6-10. Asset CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Table 6-11. Clock Setting CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Table 6-12. Versions CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Table 6-13. Reset CLI Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Table 6-14. SNTP Global Parameters CLI Commands . . . . . 82

Table 6-15. SNTP Authentication CLI Commands . . . . . . . 85

Table 6-16. SNTP Server CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Table 6-17. SNTP Broadcast CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 89

Table 6-18. Log Severity Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Table 6-19. Global Log Parameters CLI Commands . . . . . . 93

Table 6-20. RAM Log Table CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 95

Table 6-21. Log File Table CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . 97

Table 6-22. Remote Log Server CLI Commands . . . . . . . . 101

Table 6-23. Default Gateway CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . 103

Table 6-24. IP Interface Parameters CLI Commands . . . . . 106

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