Brocade FastIron Ethernet Switch Administration Guide User Manual
Fastiron ethernet switch, Administration guide
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Preface
- About This Document
- Management Applications
- Supported management application features
- Management port overview
- Logging on through the CLI
- Using stack-unit, slot number, and port numberwith CLI commands
- Basic Software Features
- Supported basic software features
- Basic system parameter configuration
- Network Time Protocol Version 4 (NTPv4)
- Limitations
- NTP and SNTP
- NTP server
- NTP Client
- NTP peer
- NTP broadcast server
- NTP broadcast client
- NTP associations
- Synchronizing time
- Authentication
- VLAN and NTP
- Configuring NTP
- Enabling NTP
- Disabling NTP
- Enabling NTP authentication
- Defining an authentication key
- Specifying a source interface
- Enable or disable the VLAN containment for NTP
- Configuring the NTP client
- Configuring the master
- Configuring the NTP peer
- Configuring NTP on an interface
- Configuring the broadcast client
- Configuring the broadcast destination
- Displaying NTP status
- Displaying NTP associations
- Displaying NTP associations details
- Configuration Examples
- NTP server and client mode configuration
- NTP client mode configuration
- NTP strict authentication configuration
- NTP loose authentication configuration
- NTP interface context for the broadcast server or client mode
- NTP broadcast client configuration
- Basic port parameter configuration
- Specifying a port address
- Assigning port names
- Displaying the port name for an interface
- Port speed and duplex mode modification
- Enabling auto-negotiation maximum port speed advertisement and down-shift
- Configuring port speed down-shift and auto-negotiation for a range of ports
- Enabling port speed down-shift
- MDI and MDIX configuration
- Disabling or re-enabling a port
- Flow control configuration
- Symmetric flow control on FCX and ICX devices
- PHY FIFO Rx and Tx depth configuration
- Interpacket Gap (IPG) on a FastIron X Series switch
- IPG on FastIron Stackable devices
- Enabling and disabling support for 100BaseTX
- Enabling and disabling support for 100BaseFX
- Changing the Gbps fiber negotiation mode
- Port priority (QoS) modification
- Dynamic configuration of Voice over IP (VoIP) phones
- Port flap dampening configuration
- Port loop detection
- Types of loop detection
- Recovering disabled ports
- Port loopback detection configuration notes
- Enabling loop detection
- Configuring a global loop detection interval
- Configuring the device to automatically re-enable ports
- Specifying the recovery time interval
- Clearing loop-detection
- Displaying loop-detection information
- Displaying loop detection resource information
- Displaying loop detection configuration status on an interface
- Syslog message due to disabled port in loop detection
- Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
- Supported OAM features
- OAM Overview
- Software versions installed and running on a device
- Software Image file types
- Software upgrades
- Boot code synchronization feature
- Viewing the contents of flash files
- Using SNMP to upgrade software
- Software reboot
- Displaying the boot preference
- Loading and saving configuration files
- Replacing the startup configuration with the running configuration
- Replacing the running configuration with the startup configuration
- Logging changes to the startup-config file
- Copying a configuration file to or from a TFTP server
- Dynamic configuration loading
- Maximum file sizes for startup-config file and running-config
- Loading and saving configuration files with IPv6
- System reload scheduling
- Diagnostic error codes and remedies for TFTP transfers
- Network connectivity testing
- Hitless management on the FSX 800 and FSX 1600
- Benefits of hitless management
- Supported protocols and services for hitless management events
- Hitless management configuration notes and feature limitations
- Hitless reload or switchover requirements and limitations
- What happens during a Hitless switchover or failover
- Enabling hitless failover on the FSX 800 and FSX 1600
- Executing a hitless switchover on the FSX 800 and FSX 1600
- Hitless OS upgrade on the FSX 800 and FSX 1600
- Syslog message for Hitless management events
- Displaying diagnostic information
- Displaying management redundancy information
- Layer 3 hitless route purge
- Setting the IPv4 hitless purge timer on the defatult VRF
- Example for setting IPv4 hitless purge timer on the default VRF
- Setting the IPv4 hitless purge timer on the non-default VRF
- Example for setting the IPv4 hitless purge timer on the non-default VRF
- Setting the IPv6 hitless purge timer on the defatult VRF
- Example for setting the IPv6 hitless purge timer on the defatult VRF
- Setting the IPv4 hitless purge timer on the non-default VRF
- Example for setting the IPv6 hitless purge timer on the non-default VRF
- Commands
- IPv6
- SNMP Access
- Supported SNMP access features
- SNMP overview
- SNMP community strings
- User-based security model
- Defining SNMP views
- SNMP version 3 traps
- Displaying SNMP Information
- SNMP v3 configuration examples
- Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Packets
- LLDP and LLDP-MED
- Supported LLDP features
- LLDP terms used in this chapter
- LLDP overview
- LLDP-MED overview
- General LLDP operating principles
- MIB support
- Syslog messages
- LLDP configuration
- LLDP configuration notes and considerations
- Enabling and disabling LLDP
- Enabling support for tagged LLDP packets
- Changing a port LLDP operating mode
- Configuring LLDP processing on 802.1x blocked port
- Maximum number of LLDP neighbors
- Enabling LLDP SNMP notifications and Syslog messages
- Changing the minimum time between LLDP transmissions
- Changing the interval between regular LLDP transmissions
- Changing the holdtime multiplier for transmit TTL
- Changing the minimum time between port reinitializations
- LLDP TLVs advertised by the Brocade device
- LLDP-MED configuration
- LLDP-MED attributes advertised by the Brocade device
- Resetting LLDP statistics
- Clearing cached LLDP neighbor information
- Hardware Component Monitoring
- Syslog
- Supported Syslog features
- About Syslog messages
- Displaying Syslog messages
- Syslog service configuration
- Displaying the Syslog configuration
- Disabling or re-enabling Syslog
- Specifying a Syslog server
- Specifying an additional Syslog server
- Disabling logging of a message level
- Changing the number of entries the local buffer can hold
- Changing the log facility
- Displaying interface names in Syslog messages
- Displaying TCP or UDP port numbers in Syslog messages
- Retaining Syslog messages after a soft reboot
- Clearing the Syslog messages from the local buffer
- Syslog messages for hardware errors
- Network Monitoring
- Supported network monitoring features
- Basic system management
- Viewing system information
- Viewing configuration information
- Viewing port statistics
- Viewing STP statistics
- Clearing statistics
- Traffic counters for outbound traffic
- Viewing egress queue counters on ICX 6610 and FCX devices
- Viewing egress queue counters on ICX 7750 devices
- Clearing the egress queue counters
- RMON support
- sFlow
- sFlow version 5
- sFlow support for IPv6 packets
- sFlow configuration considerations
- Configuring and enabling sFlow
- Enabling sFlow forwarding
- sFlow version 5 feature configuration
- Egress interface ID for sampled broadcast and multicast packets
- Specifying the sFlow version format
- Specifying the sFlow agent IP address
- Specifying the version used for exporting sFlow data
- Specifying the maximum flow sample size
- Exporting CPU and memory usage information to the sFlow collector
- Specifying the polling interval for exporting CPU and memory usage information to the sFlow collector
- Exporting CPU-directed data (management traffic) to the sFlow collector
- Displaying sFlow information
- Utilization list for an uplink port
- Power over Ethernet
- Supported PoE features
- Power over Ethernet overview
- Enabling and disabling Power over Ethernet
- Disabling support for PoE legacy power-consuming devices
- Enabling the detection of PoE power requirementsadvertised through CDP
- Setting the maximum power level for a PoE power-consuming device
- Setting the power class for a PoE power-consuming device
- Setting the power budget for a PoE interface module
- Setting the inline power priority for a PoE port
- Resetting PoE parameters
- Displaying Power over Ethernet information
- Inline power on PoE LAG ports
- Decouple PoE and datalink operations on PoE ports
- PoE Commands
- System Monitoring
- Syslog messages
- OpenSSL License