DragonWave Horizon Compact Plus User manual

Horizon COMPACT PlusTM
Wireless Ethernet
Release 1.0.1
Product Manual - Volume 2
Advanced Configuration Features
Version 1.1

Horizon Compact Plus Release 1.0.1 Wireless Ethernet Product User Manual –Volume 2
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Table of Contents
1.0 USER MANUAL STRUCTURE .......................................................................1
2.0 ADVANCED CONFIGURATION FEATURES .................................................3
2.1....... DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION CHANGE....................................................................................3
3.0 UPGRADE/DOWNGRADE LICENSED FEATURES.......................................5
3.1....... UPGRADE/DOWNGRADE FEATURE GROUP...........................................................................5
3.2....... UPGRADE SYSTEM LICENSE SPEED ....................................................................................8
3.3....... DOWNGRADE SYSTEM LICENSE SPEED .............................................................................10
4.0 CONFIGURING ETHERNET PORTS 1 AND 2 .............................................13
5.0 SYNCHRONOUS ETHERNET (SYNCE).......................................................17
5.1....... MASTER/SLAVE................................................................................................................17
5.2....... WANDER FILTERING .........................................................................................................17
5.3....... CONFIGURING SYNCE......................................................................................................18
6.0 RADIUS SERVER USER AUTHENTICATION..............................................22
6.1....... CONFIGURING THE RADIUS SERVER................................................................................25
7.0 MANAGEMENT VLAN TAGGING ................................................................26
7.1....... VLAN TAGGING OVERVIEW..............................................................................................26
7.2....... 802.1Q TAGGING.............................................................................................................26
7.3....... VLAN TAGGING IMPLEMENTATION IN HORIZON COMPACT PLUS .........................................26
7.4....... HORIZON COMPACT PLUS VLAN SETTINGS ......................................................................27
8.0 QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS).....................................................................30
8.1....... CLASS OF SERVICE TYPES................................................................................................30
8.2....... CLASS OF SERVICE BIT LEVELS ........................................................................................30
8.3....... OPERATION WITH QOSDISABLED .....................................................................................30
8.4....... OPERATION WITH QOSENABLED ......................................................................................31
8.4.1 ASSIGNING USER DATA TO QOSQUEUES......................................................................................31
8.4.2 SLOW BRIDGE PROTOCOL FRAMES ...............................................................................................31
8.4.3 COMMITTED INFORMATION RATE (CIR)..........................................................................................32
8.4.4 COMMITTED BURST SIZE (CBS) ...................................................................................................32
8.5....... QOSSCHEDULER POLICIES..............................................................................................32
8.5.1 CUT THROUGH............................................................................................................................33
8.5.2 STRICT PRIORITY QUEUING ..........................................................................................................33
8.5.3 WEIGHTED FAIR QUEUING (WFQ) ................................................................................................34
8.5.4 WEIGHTED FAIR QUEUING –EXPEDITE MODE ................................................................................36
8.6....... USER FLOW MAPPING......................................................................................................44
9.0 PAUSE FRAMES..........................................................................................48
10.0 BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT......................................................................50
10.1..... MAXIMUM THROUGHPUT SPEED........................................................................................50

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10.2..... ASYMMETRIC THROUGHPUT SPEED...................................................................................53
10.3..... THROUGHPUT (BANDWIDTH)LOGGING ..............................................................................55
11.0 ADAPTIVE TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL (ATPC) ...................................60
11.1..... NORMAL LINK...................................................................................................................60
11.2..... SATURATED LINK .............................................................................................................63
11.3..... COORDINATED POWER ALARM..........................................................................................64
12.0 AUTHENTICATION.......................................................................................66
12.1..... NO AUTHENTICATION........................................................................................................66
12.2..... UNIQUE AUTHENTICATION.................................................................................................66
12.3..... GROUP AUTHENTICATION .................................................................................................66
12.4..... AUTHENTICATION FAILURE ACTION ...................................................................................67
12.5..... CONFIGURE AUTHENTICATION ..........................................................................................68
13.0 THRESHOLD ALARMS................................................................................72
14.0 RAPID LINK SHUTDOWN (RLS)..................................................................78
14.1..... DETERMINATION OF ERROR RATES ON HORIZON COMPACT PLUS SYSTEMS .......................78
14.2..... RLS CONFIGURATION –PORT GROUPS ............................................................................79
14.2.1 BASIC MODE...............................................................................................................................79
14.2.2 ADVANCED MODE........................................................................................................................79
14.3..... SETTINGS FOR BASIC MODE.............................................................................................80
14.3.1 RLS SIGNAL DEGRADE SETTINGS.................................................................................................80
14.3.2 RLS LINK MONITOR PARAMETERS ................................................................................................80
14.4..... SETTINGS FOR ADVANCED MODE......................................................................................81
14.4.1 RLS SIGNAL FAULT SETTINGS......................................................................................................81
14.4.2 RECOVERY FROM A HARD FAILURE................................................................................................81
14.5..... RLS LINK CONTROL SETTINGS .........................................................................................81
15.0 CONFIGURING THE TIME SOURCE (SNTP)...............................................90
16.0 ADAPTIVE MODULATION ...........................................................................94
16.1..... HITLESS AUTOMATIC ADAPTIVE MODULATION....................................................................94
17.0 SYSTEM MANAGEMENT...........................................................................100
17.1..... IN-BAND AND OUT-OF-BAND MANAGEMENT......................................................................100
17.2..... TELNET ACCESS ............................................................................................................103
17.3..... SECURE SHELL ACCESS SECURITY.................................................................................104
17.4..... CONFIGURING SECURE SHELL (SSH)..............................................................................104
17.5..... WEB INTERFACE ............................................................................................................105
17.5.1 FEATURES ................................................................................................................................105
17.5.2 CONNECTING TO THE WEB INTERFACE.........................................................................................106
17.5.3 EXITING THE APPLICATION..........................................................................................................107
17.5.4 LOGIN ......................................................................................................................................107
17.5.5 HOME SCREEN..........................................................................................................................108
17.5.6GRAPHICS AND TABLE VIEW .......................................................................................................109

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17.5.7 WEB PAGE TREE DIAGRAM ........................................................................................................111
17.6..... SECURE SOCKETS LAYER (SSL)WEB SERVER ...............................................................111
17.6.1 WHAT IS SSL?..........................................................................................................................112
17.6.2 GENERATING A CERTIFICATE ......................................................................................................112
17.6.3 INSTALLING CERTIFICATES ON YOUR WEB BROWSER....................................................................114
17.6.4 ENABLING SSL PER USER GROUP ..............................................................................................116
18.0 EVENT AND PERFORMANCE LOGGING .................................................118
18.1..... EVENTS LOG..................................................................................................................118
18.2..... PERFORMANCE LOG.......................................................................................................119
18.3..... SYSLOG FEATURE..........................................................................................................121
19.0 RADIO AND NETWORK LOOPBACK........................................................ 124
19.1..... RADIO LOOPBACK ..........................................................................................................124
19.2..... NETWORK LOOPBACK.....................................................................................................126
19.3..... EOAM LOOPBACK .........................................................................................................127
20.0 NETWORK MANAGEMENT .......................................................................128
20.1..... SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (SNMP) ....................................................128
20.2..... SUPPORTED SNMP VERSIONS.......................................................................................128
20.3..... ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION BASE (MIB)....................................................136
20.4..... SNMP TRAPS................................................................................................................136
21.0 EDITING SYSTEM CONFIGURATION FILES.............................................142
APPENDIX A –DETAILED CLI COMMAND LIST ..................................................144
APPENDIX B –SYSTEM CONFIGURATION OID INDICES ...................................165
APPENDIX C –SITE SURVEY INFORMATION......................................................189
APPENDIX E - 802.1P PRIORITY TAGGING OVERVIEW...................................... 191

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List of Figures
Figure 7-1 CoS Queues can be allocated a CIR and a Committed Burst Size (CBS).........................33
Figure 7-2 Weighted Fair Queuing Concept...........................................................................................34
Figure 16-1 Web Interface - Login Screen............................................................................................107
Figure 16-2 Web Interface - Home Screen............................................................................................108
Figure 16-3 Web Interface –Graphics withTable View........................................................................109
Figure 16-4 Web Interface –Graphics Features...................................................................................110
Figure 16-5 Web Interface –Graphics –Loss of Signal......................................................................110
Figure 16-6 Web Interface –Tree Diagram...........................................................................................111
Figure 18-1 Radio/Network Loopback..................................................................................................124
List of Tables
Table 6-1 VLAN tagging is OFF ...............................................................................................................27
Table 6-2 VLAN tagging is ON. ................................................................................................................27
Table 9-1 System Mode and Modulation Scheme..................................................................................50
Table 14-1 Time Sources..........................................................................................................................90
Table 15-1 Modulation Up/Downshift SNR Thresholds.........................................................................94
Table 17-1 Performance Log Durations................................................................................................121

Horizon Compact Plus Release 1.0.1 Wireless Ethernet Product User Manual –Volume 2
1.0 User Manual Structure
This user manual is divided into three volumes:
Volume 1 –Contains an overview of the product, basic configuration, installation and the
alignment procedures that are sufficient to set up a link and have it passing traffic. Also, a list of
the advanced configuration features.
Volume 2 (this volume) –includes step-by-step configuration details for the advanced
configuration features that are listed in Volume 1.
Volume 3 –contains a complete list of the frequency tables associated with the radio bands
supported by the Horizon Compact Plus
Volume 4 - Contains configuration details relating to industry standard networking features.

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