Dell poweredge VRTX User manual

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Dell PowerEdge VRTX 1Gb Switch
Module, R1-2401
Getting Started Guide
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data and tells you how to avoid the problem.
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injury, or death.
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Contents
1 Hardware and Initial Configuration. . . . . . 5
Switch Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Initial Configuration of the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2 Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
CLI Command Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Accessing the Device Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . 15
Retrieving an IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Security Management and Password Configuration . . 18
Configuring Login Banners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Startup Menu Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Software Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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Hardware and Initial Configuration
This section describes the R1-2401 switch and how it is initially installed and
configured.
It contains the following topics:
• Switch Hardware
• Initial Configuration of the Switch
Switch Hardware
This section describes the ports and LEDs on the device.
It contains the following topics:
•SwitchPorts
• Front Panel LEDs

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Switch Ports
Figure 1-1 shows the R1-2401device within the chassis. Only the switch
hardware is described in this guide.
Figure 1-1. R1-2401
Types of Ports
The following ports are found on the switch:
• 24 x 1 Gigabit/s Ethernet Ports. These consist of:
–
8 external ports —Connected to network (visible when the switch is in
the chassis)
–
16 internal ports —Connected to blade servers (not visible when the
switch is in the chassis)
Blade
Servers
Shared
Storage
Power
Supplies
R1-2401
Fan
Trays

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• Single Internal Out-of-Band port
The switch supports an Out-of-Band (OOB) port that is connected to the
management network of the chassis.
Port Naming Convention
There are 5 groups of ports, numbered 0-4. Group 0 represents the external
ports and groups 1-4 represents the internal ports that are connected to blade
servers 1-4.
External/Internal Ports
The following naming convention is used for internal and external ports:
gigabitethernet group/port_number or gi group/port_number
The following table maps the hardware network port numbers to the software
interface port numbers and describe how they are referred to in the CLI/GUI:
Front Panel LEDs
The front panel contains LEDs and ports, as follows:
• 2 System LEDs — Status and Power. These are described in Table 1-2.
• 8 ports — Each having two associated LEDs. These are described in
Table 1- 3.
Table 1-1. Port Mapping Table
Port Type and Number Software Port Naming Convention in CLI/WEB
External ports 1-8 gi0/1.... gi0/8
Internal ports 1-4 gi1/1.... gi1/4
Internal ports 5-8 gi2/1.... gi2/4
Internal ports 9-12 gi3/1.... gi3/4
Internal ports 13-16 gi4/1.... gi4/4
Out-of-Band port oob
Table 1-2. System LED’s
State of Switch Status LED Power LED (Green) Description
Off Off Off Switch is powered-
off.

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Initial Configuration of the Switch
NOTE: Before proceeding further, read the latest documentation and release notes
for this product, which can be downloaded from the Dell Support website at
dell.com/support.
Healthy/Booted Blue On Switch is
functionally
normally.
Fault Amber
Blink 1 HZ
•On — Self-diagnosed fault
• Off
— Configuration error or
other CMC-detected fault
Switch has issued a
fault.
Booting Off On Boot in progress.
Identify Blue Blink
1 HZ
On CMC is identifying
the switch
Table 1-3. Port LEDs
LED Color
Link Off
— No Link
Solid green
— Link at 1G speed
Solid amber
— Link at 10/100M speed
Activity Off — No Link
Blinking green
— Traffic is being received/forward
Table 1-2. System LED’s
State of Switch Status LED Power LED (Green) Description

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Table 1-4 describes the major switch defaults:
Table 1-4. Major System Defaults
Feature Defaults
SNMP Enabled.
SNMP version: V3
SNMP Local Engine ID: 0000000001
SNMP Notifications: Enabled
Login and Authentication Telnet authentication login is from the local
user data base
HTTP authentication login is from the
local data base
HTTPS authentication login is from the
local data base
Authentication Servers No RADIUS server is defined
No TACACS server is defined
Logging No SYSLOG server is defined
System Time SNTP is supported
DHCP DHCP server is disabled
DHCP auto configuration is enabled
Ports 24 GE regular ports
Full duplex is enabled.
Negotiation is enabled
Flow control is Off
No LAGs are defined
Multicast Multicast filtering is disabled
IGMP Snooping Disabled
Spanning Tree Enabled
VLANs Default VLAN is enabled
Default VLAN ID is 1
IP Addressing IP address is 192.168.2.1

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NOTE: CLI and/or GUI need only be used if the default configuration is not
sufficient.
The switch can be configured in the following modes from the GUI:
• Basic — Elementary network configuration for the switch.
•
Advanced — Full network configuration mode that enables configuration
of all switch capabilities. This mode is intended for advanced network
administrators.
To logon to the switch after it is inserted into the chassis, perform the
following:
1
Turn on the chassis. To display the IP address configured for the out-of-
band interface, go to the CMC GUI, options:
I/O Module Overview >
Setup
2 Log on to the switch in one of the following ways:
– Establish a Telnet session to the out-of-band IP address obtained in
the last step, and log on with the default user/password:
root/calvin .
Continue managing the switch through the CLI (see "Using the CLI"
on page 11).
– Open a GUI session from the CMC GUI, options:
I/O Module
Overview > Properties > Launch IOM GUI
. In the Login menu,
select either Basic or Advanced mode and use the default
user/password:
root/calvin . Continue managing the switch through
the Network Administrator.
– Connect to the IOM serial interface through the CMC. For that, use
the CMC command:
connect switch . For more informations on this,
consult the
CMC Command Line Reference from
dell.com/support/manuals.