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•Remotemonitoring(RMON)
UsesstandardSNMPtomonitoressentialnetworkfunctions;andsupportsevents,alarms,
history,andstatisticsgroupsaswellasaprivatealarmextensiongroup
•FTP,TFTP,andSFTPsupport
Oersdierentmechanismsforcongurationupdates;FTPallowsbidirectionaltransfersover
aTCP/IPnetwork;trivialFTP(TFTP)isasimplermethodusingUserDatagramProtocol(UDP);
SecureFileTransferProtocol(SFTP)runsoveranSSHtunneltoprovideadditionalsecurity
•Debugandsamplerutility
SupportspingandtracerouteforbothIPv4andIPv6
•NetworkTimeProtocol(NTP)
Synchronizestimekeepingamongdistributedtimeserversandclients;keepstimekeeping
consistentamongallclock-dependentdeviceswithinthenetworksothatthedevicescan
providediverseapplicationsbasedontheconsistenttime
•NetworkQualityAnalyzer(NQA)
Analyzesnetworkperformanceandservicequalitybysendingtestpackets,andprovides
networkperformanceandservicequalityparameterssuchasjitter,TCP,orFTPconnection
delaysandletransferrates;allowsanetworkmanagertodetermineoverallnetwork
performanceandtodiagnoseandlocatenetworkcongestionpointsorfailures
•Informationcenter
Providesacentralrepositoryforsystemandnetworkinformation;aggregatesalllogs,traps,
anddebugginginformationgeneratedbythesystemandmaintainstheminorderofseverity;
outputsthenetworkinformationtomultiplechannelsbasedonuser-denedrules
•IEEE802.1ABLinkLayerDiscoveryProtocol(LLDP)
Advertisesandreceivesmanagementinformationfromadjacentdevicesonanetwork,
facilitatingeasymappingbynetworkmanagementapplications
•Dualashimages
Providesindependentprimaryandsecondaryoperatingsystemlesforbackupwhile
upgrading
•Multiplecongurationles
Storeseasilytotheashimage
Layer 2 switching
•V L A N
Supportsupto4,096port-basedorIEEE802.1Q-basedVLANs;andsupportsMAC-based
VLANs,protocol-basedVLANs,andIP-subnet-basedVLANsforaddedexibility
•BridgeProtocolDataUnit(BPDU)tunneling
TransmitsSTPBPDUstransparently,allowingcorrecttreecalculationsacrossservice
providers,WANs,orMANs
•GARPVLANRegistrationProtocol
AllowsautomaticlearninganddynamicassignmentofVLANs(Comwarev5only)
•Portmirroring
Duplicatesporttrac(ingressandegress)toalocalorremotemonitoringport;supports
4mirroringgroups,withanunlimitednumberofportspergroup
•STP
SupportsstandardIEEE802.1DSTP,IEEE802.1wRapidSpanningTreeProtocol(RSTP)for
fasterconvergence,andIEEE802.1sMultipleSpanningTreeProtocol(MSTP)
•InternetGroupManagementProtocol(IGMP)andMulticastListenerDiscovery(MLD)protocol
snooping
ControlsandmanagestheoodingofmulticastpacketsinaLayer2network
Datasheet|HP10500SwitchSeries