Intel IXM5414E manuel d'utilisation

Intel® Blade Server Ethernet Switch Module IXM5414E: Inst allation and User ’ s Guide A Guide for T echnically Qual ified Assembler s of Intel® Identif ied Subassemblies/Pr oduct s C66107-004[...]

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iii Content s Safet y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v 1 Introducing the Intel® Blad e Server Ethernet Swi tch M odule IXM5414E . . . . . . . 1 Related publ ications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

iv Appendix A RJ-45 Pin S pecifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Appendix B Cable Lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Appendix C Run-time Switch ing Sof tware Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Appendix D CLI Command T ree [...]

v Safety Before in stall ing this produc t, read t he Safety I nformat ion. Antes de i nstalar este p roduto, leia as Informa ções de Segu rança. Læs sikke rhed sfors krifte rne, fø r du in stall erer de tte pr oduk t. Lees voord at u di t produ ct insta lleert eerst de veili gheidsvoor schri ften. Ennen kuin a sennat tämän tuot teen, l ue t[...]

vi Ante s de in stala r este pr oduc to, lea la info rmac ión de s egur idad. Läs säker hetsi nformatio nen innan du insta llerar den här pro dukten. S tatement 1: DANGER T o Connect: T o Disconnec t: 1. T urn ever ythin g OFF . 2. First, a ttac h all cables to devi ces. 3. Attach s ignal c ables to c onnec tors. 4. Attach p ower cords to outle[...]

vii S tatement 2: xx CAUTION: When la ser prod ucts (such as CD-ROMs, DVD dr ives, fiber optic devices , or transmitt ers) a re insta lled, note the foll owin g: • Do not r emove the co vers. Re moving th e covers of the las er prod uct cou ld resul t in exposure t o haza rdous l aser rad iati on. There ar e no ser vicea ble part s insi de the de[...]

viii S tatement 3: xx CAUTION: Use safe p racti ces when li fti ng. S tatement 4: xx CAUTION: If you in stall a strai n-reli ef bracke t opti on over the end of the powe r cord tha t is c onnected t o the devic e, you mus t connect the ot her end of t he power cord to a n easi ly access ible p ower source. S tatement 5: xx CAUTION: Never remove the[...]

ix S tatement 6: DANGER S tatement 7: xx CAUTION: Hazardous v oltag e, curr ent, an d ener gy le vels mig ht be pres ent. Onl y a qualif ied s ervice technici an is authoriz ed to r emove th e cover s where the foll owing la bel is at tache d. Overloading a branch ci r cuit is potential ly a fir e hazard and a shock haz ard under certain co nditio [...]

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1 1 Introdu cing the In tel® Bla de Server Ethernet Switch Mod ule IXM5 414E Thank you fo r purc hasing an Intel® Blade S erver Ethe rnet Switch Modu le IXM5414E . This Install ation and User’ s Guide cont ains inf ormatio n about: • Setting up and i nstal ling your switch module • Config uring your switch module For i nstal lation details [...]

2 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E V erify that the ship ping carton con tains an Inte l® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM5414E . If the s witch mod ule is missin g or dama ged, cont act your local resel ler for replacem ent. Other wise, retur n the switch m odule to its static -prot ectiv e packa ge. / NOT E The [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 3 Notices and st atement s used in this b ook The cauti on and da nger stat ements tha t appe ar in thi s book a re also i n the mul tilingu al Safety Inform ation Book on the Resour ce CD. Eac h stat ement is num bere d to refe r to th e corr espon ding statement in th e Safety Inf ormati on [...]

4 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E For more in formati on abou t the c omponents of the i nformatio n panel , see Cha pter 3 “In formation Panel LEDs an d Exter nal Ports ” on page 17 . For more inf ormation a bout th e MAC address, s ee “IP addresse s and SNMP communit y names” o n page 21 . S peci ficatio ns and f[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 5 • S tandards The follo wing st andards ap ply to the IXM5414 E switch modul e. — Switching Support – IEEE 802.3 10BASE- T Ethernet – IEEE 802.3 Auto -negot iation – IEEE 802.3u 100 BASE-TX Fast Ethernet – IEEE 802.3z Gi gabit Ethe rnet – IEEE 802.3ab 1 000BASE-T – IEEE 802.1Q[...]

6 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E • Independe nt VLAN Learnin g (IVL) s upport • Port Mir rori ng • IGMP Snooping • Static MA C Filt ering – System Fa cili ties • Event and Er ror Log ging Fac ility • Run-time an d Config uration Down load Cap ability • PING Utilit y — Quality o f Service (QOS) Support ?[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 7 — RFC 1 155 - SMI v1 — RFC 1 157 - SNMP — RFC 1212 - Concise MIB Def initions — RFC 1901 - Community- based SNMP v2 — RFC 1905 - Prot ocol Op erations for SNMP v2 — RFC 1906 - T ransp ort Mappings for SNMP v2 — RFC 1907 - Management Inf ormation Ba se for SNMP v2 — RFC 1908 -[...]

8 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E • RFC 2674 - VLAN MIB • RFC 2618 - RADIUS Aut henticat ion Client MIB • RFC 2620 - RADIUS Accounting MIB • RFC 2819 - RMON Gro ups 1, 2, 3 and 9 • IEEE 802.1X MIB (I EEE 802.1-P AE- MIB) • Enterpri se MIB – QOS / SNMP Support i n Ente rprise MIBs • A vailable throug h Manag[...]

9 2 Inst a lling and Remov ing the Intel® B lade Server Ether net Swit ch Mo dule IXM5414E The foll owin g illus trati on show s the I/O mo dule b ay loc ation s in th e SBC E plat form. Attentio n: T o maintain proper system coo ling, each I/O modul e bay must c ontain ei ther a module or a fil ler module ; each blade bay mus t cont ain eith er a[...]

10 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E For a dditi onal i nform ation , see t he Intel® Bla de Serv er Chass is SBCE : Ins tall ation and Use r ’ s Guide on th e Resource CD. Installation guide lines Before you begin inst alli ng the IXM5414 E switc h module in yo ur SBCE, read t he follo wing inform ation : • Become fa m[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 11 • Do not l eave the d evice where ot hers can h andle a nd possibl y damage i t. • W hile t he dev ice is still in its stat ic-prot ectiv e pac kage, touch it to a n un paint ed met al pa rt of the SBCE platfor m for a t least t wo seco nds. (Thi s drains stat ic ele ctrici ty from the [...]

12 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Complete th e foll owing step s to in stall t he IXM5414E switch mo dule. 1. Rev iew the inform ation in “Safety” on page v a nd in “Inst allati on guid elines” on page 1 0 . 2. Remove the ac oustic at tenuati on module , if inst alled, f rom the rea r of the SBCE p latform. Th e [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 13 3. Sel ect an I/ O module bay i n which to i nstall the swi tch module, in accorda nce wit h the instruc tions in “Ether net in terface requi rements ” on page 9 . 4. Remove the f iller m odule fr om the se lect ed I/O modu le bay . Stor e the f iller mod ule fo r fut ure use. 5. If you[...]

14 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Removing the I XM5414E swit ch modu le S tatement 8: xx CAUTION: Never remove the co ver on a powe r suppl y or any par t tha t has the follo wing la bel atta ched. Hazardous v oltag e, curr ent, an d ener gy le vels ar e presen t insi de any compone nt tha t has thi s label at tache d. T[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 15 4. Sl ide th e switch modul e out of the I/ O module ba y and se t it asi de. 5. Pl ace eithe r anot her switc h module or a filler module i n the I/O mod ule bay wit hin 1 min ute. 6. If you pl aced anothe r swit ch modul e in th e I/O module bay , reconnect any cables that you unplugged i[...]

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17 3 Information Pane l LEDs and External Port s This chapt er descr ibes the infor mation p anel and LEDs (also known as indi cator s) on the Intel® Blade Serv er Ethe rnet S witch Module IXM5414E. This ch apter al so identi fies the exter nal po rts on the in format ion pan el. Infor mation panel The infor mation pane l of t he IXM5414E s witch [...]

18 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Notes: 1. The i llust ration s in th is docu ment m ay di ffer slight ly fro m you r hardw are. 2. An ambe r LED illuminat es when a syste m error or event has occ urred. T o identi fy the er ror or event, check the LEDs on the inform ation pane l of t he swit ch modul e. OK (power -on): [...]

19 4 Switch Management and Operating Concept s This chap ter dis cusses many of th e conce pts an d feat ures u sed to m anag e the In tel® B lade S erve r Ethernet Switch Module IXM541 4E and th e concepts necess ary to und ersta nd how it fu nctio ns. In additio n, this chapte r explai ns many i mportant point s regard ing the se fea tures. Conf[...]

20 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E module by se lecti ng this mod e as an option thr ough th e managemen t module con figurat ion uti lity program (s ee the applicab le Install ation a nd User’ s Guide publicat ions o n the Resour ce CD for m ore inform ation ). Switch m odule mana gement and control This documen t desc [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 21 (CLI) (se e Chapte r 7 “Command L ine In terface Management” on page 155 for d etaile d info rmat ion). Both inter faces provide a ccess to the same switch informa tion and c ontrol pa ramete rs. In additi on, you c an access an exte nsive set of bot h standar d and pr ivate MI B object[...]

22 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E The switch MAC address can also b e displ ayed usin g CLI command show inve ntory or from t he W e b Inte rface. In addit ion, you can also s et an I P address for a g ateway rout er . This b ecomes ne cessary whe n the network mana gement s tation an d switch modu les ar e locate d on di[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 23 nonvolati le random- acces s memory (NVRAM) are used to re confi gure the s witch module. Wa r m s t a r t This tra p indicat es tha t the swit ch modul e has been r estart ed; however , the power - on se lf-tes t (PO ST) is s kippe d. Authentica tion f ailur e This tra p indicat es that s [...]

24 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Y ou can attach a mon itoring device to the mir rored port, such as a sn iff er or an RMON probe, to view detai ls about the pa ckets tha t pass throu gh the fir st port. This i s useful f or networ k monitor ing and troub leshoot ing pu rposes. Simple Networ k Manage ment Prot ocol (SNMP[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 25 The aging time can be from 10 t o 1,000 ,000 second s, wit h a de fault v alue o f 300 se conds. Setti ng the value too high co uld mean that some e ntrie s in the t able beco me out of date, c ausing th e switc h module to mak e incorre ct packet -forwardi ng dec isions. I f the agi ng tim[...]

26 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E For addit ional inf ormati on about both forms of the Span ning T ree Protocol, se e Appendi x H on page 277 . V irtual Local Area Networks (VLAN) A virtual local ar ea net work (VLAN) is a networ k topology confi gured acco rding t o a logic al scheme rat her than t he physic al la yout.[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 27 headers ( tag- unaware devi ces). The tag ging feat ure ena bles VLANs to span mult iple 802.1Q- compliant switches throug h a sing le physic al conn ection an d enabl es the Span ning T ree Prot ocol to be enable d on all ports an d work normal ly . The IEEE 802.1Q s tanda rd restr icts th[...]

28 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tags The followi ng illust ration s hows the 80 2.1Q VLAN tag. Four addi tiona l octets a re insert ed betwe en the sourc e MAC add ress and t he pack et’ s Ethe rT ype field. The ir prese nce is ind icate d by a va lue of 0x8100 in the t wo bytes fo llowin g the MAC ad[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 29 Port VLAN ID Packets t hat are t agged ( are carr ying the 802.1Q VID in format ion) c an be tran smitte d from one 802.1Q compli ant netw ork devic e to anothe r with the VLAN infor mation intact. Th is ena bles 802.1Q VLANs to sp an netwo rk devices (and inde ed, the entire n etwork, if a[...]

30 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E The f orwa rding functi on de termi nes the destin atio n port . If th e dest ination , or e gress , port is a member of th e same VLAN as the packet the d estinati on por t transmi ts the pac ket on i ts att ached network se gment. I f the egre ss port i s not a member of th e VLAN, the [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 31 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) GVRP (GARP VLAN Registrat ion Protoc ol) is used to pr opagate VLAN membe rship inf ormation throughout the n etwork. GVRP is based on the Gene ric Attr ibute Registra tion Pr otocol ( GARP), which defi nes a method of pro pagating a defi ned attribut [...]

32 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E The VLAN classi ficatio n thus as sociated with re ceived GMRP PDUs establish es the VLAN con text for the r ecei ved PDU, and i dentifi es th e GARP partic ipant insta nce to which the PDU i s dire cted. GMRP PDUs tran smitted by GMRP partic ipant s are VLAN-cl assifie d accordi ng to th[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 33 Group addr esses ar e stored i n the Multi cast Forwa rding Data base ( MFDB). An IGMP addr ess will be removed fr om the d atabas e if a re port f or it is not r eceived wit hin t he query i nterva l. An in terface may be removed fr om an IGMP grou p in respons e to an I GMP Leave Group me[...]

34 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E The switch modul e of fers li nk aggre gatio n on four exter nal por ts for up to two static tr unk group s or two LACP 802. 3ad link ag gregat ion groups . The tr unked port s can be non-con tinuous ( that is , have non-seque ntial port numb ers). All of the po rts in th e group mus t be[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 35 Before l oading TCP/I P with an add ress acq uired from the DHCP serve r , DHCP clients che ck for an IP addres s confl ict by se nding a n Addres s Resoluti on Prot ocol (ARP) r equest containi ng the address. If a co nflict is fou nd, TCP/IP does not st art, and t he use r receiv es an er[...]

36 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E A control led port i s configu red by ma nagement to be in on e of th ree stat es: Forc eUnauthori zed The port i s set to the una uthori zed st ate. Forc eAuthori zed The port is set to the au thori zed st ate. Auto The port’ s state will be set ba sed on t he out come of auth entic at[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 37 Secur e Sock et Layer (S SL) Managing devices wi th a web browser has been s tandar d practi ce for several years. Unfort unately standard HTTP tran sactions are no more sec ure than T elnet. The solut ion is th e use of the Secur e Sockets La yer (SSL ) protocol which p rovides a means of [...]

38 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Quality of Servi ce (QoS) The Qualit y of Serv ice (QoS) feat ures of t he Inte l® Blade S erver Etherne t Switch Modu le IXM5414E allo w you to a llocate network bandwidth a ccordi ng to the needs of the networ k user s. This sect ion will give you an overvi ew of th e methods ava ilabl[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 39 Access Contr ol Li st s (ACL) Y ou use Access Co ntrol Lists (ACLs ) to co ntrol th e traf fic enteri ng or exit ing a ne twork, fo r example where two ne tworks a re con nected, or an int ernal network is connec ted th rough a firewall rout er to th e Inte rnet. T his al lows yo u to e nsu[...]

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41 5 W eb-Based Net work Management This chapt er descr ibes h ow to use the W eb-based net work manag ement modul e to acce ss and conf igure the in ternal s witch ing s oftwar e. Important: Befo re you conf igure your Inte l® Blad e Server Et hernet Swi tch Module I XM5414E, b e sure tha t the manage ment modules in your SBCE platfor m are pr op[...]

42 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E See t he ap plica ble Installat ion and User’ s Guide on the Resour ce CD for ad diti onal in struc tions for conf iguri ng the s witch mod ule fo r this m ode of operatio n. • The syste m administ rato r can sel ect to ena ble re mote manag ement of th e IXM5414E s witch module throu[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 43 Click on Log in, and a dial og box simil ar to the foll owing wil l open: Enter “USERI D” in th e User name f ield and e nter “ P ASSW0RD” (with a zero in pl ace of th e O) in the Passwor d field. Click t he OK button . This ope ns the main page i n the manageme nt module . / NOT E [...]

44 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E If ja va mod e is ena bled f or the switc h (the defaul t is ena bled ) the to p pane l show s a rea l-time inform ation-pa nel displ ay of the switch module, a s shown below . Y ou can change the j ava mode on the Netw ork Connect ivity Conf igura tion menu (S ee “N etwork conne ctiv i[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 45 When you f irst lo g on to the switch, you will see the System Des criptio n detai ls in th e cent er of the screen. Fo r more de tail s on th e info rmation displaye d, see “S ystem desc ription” on page 48 . System The System menu provid es access to the foll owing panel s and menu s:[...]

46 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E •P o r t •S N M P • S tatist ics • Sy stem ut ilit ies • T rap man ager ARP ca che This panel display s the c onnectivi ty bet ween the s witch a nd othe r devices . The ARP ca che ide ntifie s the Medi a Access Cont rol ( MAC) addre sses of the IP statio ns communic ating with [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 47 Syst em D escri ption The product name of this sw itch. Machine T ype The machi ne type of this switch . Machine Model The model w ithin t he mach ine ty pe. Serial Number The unique b ox ser ial numb er for th is swit ch. FRU Number The field-r eplac eable unit nu mber . Part Number The ma[...]

48 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Operating Sys tem The operat ing sy stem cur rently r unning on the swit ch. Network Pr oces sing Device The network proces sor ha rdware. Additional Packages The list of opt ional sof tware p ackage s instal led on the switch , if an y . For exa mple, Quality o f Service . Configuration [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 49 Syst em D escri ption The product name of this sw itch. System Name The name u sed to ide ntif y this switch. The range f or name is from 1 t o 31 alphanumer ic cha racters . Syst em Lo catio n The physica l locati on of this swi tch. May be up to 31 alphanume ric characte rs. The factory d[...]

50 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E IP Addr ess The IP addr ess of the in terface .The fac tory defa ult va lue i s 10.90.90 .9x, where x i s determine d by the number of t he I/O-modul e bay i nto which yo u have i nstalle d the Ethernet switch module (s ee T able 1.“Defa ult IP addr esses based on I/O modu le bay number[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 51 Click the Apply butt on to upd ate the s witch wi th new va lues. If you want the switc h to re tain the new values across a p ower cyc le you must p erform a s ave. Te l n e t Use this p anel t o confi gure T elnet sett ings. T elnet Log in T imeout (minut es) Specify ho w many minut es of[...]

52 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E User Use this p ull-d own menu to selec t one of t he exis ting a ccounts, o r sele ct Create to add a new one , provi ded the maxi mum of fiv e Read-only account s has not been reach ed. User Name The na me the user will use t o log in using the serial port , T elnet or W eb. It can be u[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 53 Authentica tion Pr otoco l The protoc ol (i f any) used to aut henti cate the user . This fiel d specifi es th e protocol to be used to aut henti cate a use r acco unt. The val id aut henticat ion pr otocols a re None, MD5 or SHA. I f MD5 or SHA are speci fied, th e user login pa ssword wil[...]

54 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Login Select t he authent ication login list you want to config ure. Sel ect Creat e to defi ne a new login l ist. When you creat e a new logi n list, Local is s et as t he init ial authenti cati on method. Login Name If you ar e crea ting a new l ogin lis t, enter the name you want to a [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 55 ID The ID of t his ro w . User Name The use r name of use r made the s essio n. Connection Fr o m The user i s connecte d from which machine. Idle T ime The idle s essio n time. Session T ime The total sessi on time. Click the Refresh bu tton t o updat e the inf ormation on the pa ge. Login[...]

56 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Login Iden tifies the au thenti catio n logi n list s umma rized in this ro w . Metho d L ist The ord ered l ist of met hods con figured f or this login l ist. Login Users The users you assigne d to t his login list on the User Login Con figurat ion scree n. This list is used t o auth ent[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 57 Each confi gured u ser is as signe d to a logi n list t hat sp ecifies how the u ser shoul d be auth enticat ed when attempt ing t o access t he swit ch or a port on t he swit ch. Afte r creati ng a ne w user accou nt on the User Ac count s creen, you should a ssign that user to a l ogin li[...]

58 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Forwar ding dat abase The firs t opti on on th is menu is t he Conf iguratio n panel , which a llows you t o confi gure the forwardi ng data base aging inter val. Th e second opt ion i s the Sear ch panel , which dis plays t he forwardi ng data base en tries sp ecifi ed by a MAC a ddress [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 59 Filter Specify t he entri es you wa nt displa yed from the pull- down menu. On ce a choic e is made the list i s automa tical ly refr eshed wi th the selecte d fil ter . Filter choic es are : Learned Only MAC address es that h ave bee n learned will be di splayed. All The entir e table wi l[...]

60 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Management The value o f the c orrespond ing in stance is al so the val ue of a n exis ting instance of dot 1d S taticAd dress. Currently this is used when enabli ng VLANs for rout ing. Self The MAC address of one of t he swit ch’ s physica l int erfaces . GMRP Learned The value o f the[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 61 Time The time th e event occur red, calc ulate d from the t ime the swi tch was last res et, in days, hours , minute s and se conds. File The source code f ilename identif ying t he code tha t dete cted the event. Line The line n umber wit hin the so urce f ile of t he code tha t det ected [...]

62 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Entry The number of the en try wit hin the e vent l og. The most recent entry is firs t. Filename The source code f ilename identif ying t he code tha t dete cted the event. Line The line n umber wit hin the so urce f ile of t he code tha t det ected the event. Ta s k I D The OS-as signed[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 63 Port Selects the in terface for whi ch data is to be displa yed or config ured. Port T ype For normal and LAG port s this f ield will be blank. Otherwise t he poss ible val ues are: Probe Monitoring port, participat ing in Port Mirro ring. Foll owing i s how this panel dis plays when the po[...]

64 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Mirr or ed Port being mirr ored. LAG Member of a Li nk Aggreg ation (LAG) trunk. Following i s how this panel displays when the por t type is LAG . STP Mode Select t he Spanning T ree Pro tocol (STP) Administra tive Mode for the por t or LAG . The possib le val ues are Ena bled a nd Disab[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 65 Link S tatus In dicates wh ether the Lin k is Up or Down. Followi ng is how th is pane l displa ys when the li nk sta tus is l ink up. Link T rap This obje ct det ermines whet her or not to send a trap wh en link st atus c hanges. The factory default is Enabl ed. ifInd ex The ifIndex of t h[...]

66 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port Iden tifies the ph ysic al por t. Port T ype If not bl ank, th is fi eld indi cates that thi s port is a spec ial t ype of port . The pos sible values ar e: Mirr or ed Port being mirr ored. Probe Probe p ort, part icipa ting in Port Mi rror ing. LAG Member of a link agg regati on tru[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 67 Contr ol Mode Displays whether flow co ntrol is Enable d or Disabl ed on th is por t. The follo wing dis plays the right side of the pan el. Desc ripti ons of th ese fi elds fol low . LACP Mode Displays whether Link Aggr egation Con trol Prot ocol ( LACP) is Enabl ed or Disabled o n this po[...]

68 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port Mirrorin g Mod e Select t he Port Mir rorin g Mode by sele cting the cor respondi ng line on the pul l- down entry f ield. The facto ry defaul t is Disa bled. Probe Port The interfa ce you wan t to act as the Prob e. Once c onfigured there is no netwo rk connecti vity o n the probe p[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 69 Community configuration By default , tw o SNMP Communit ies e xist: • pri vate, with R ead/Write pri vileg es an d statu s set t o Ena ble • public, wi th Read- only priv ilege s and stat us set to Enable These are well-known c ommuniti es; you can use th is menu t o change t he defa ul[...]

70 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E same communi ty name , the fir st en try is ke pt and proces sed and all dupl icate entr ies are ignor ed. Client IP Add ress Ente r the I P add ress (o r por tion the reof) from which this d evic e will accept S NMP packets wi th the associa ted communi ty name. The request ing en tity &[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 71 Community This field adds a n SN MP trap recei ver co mmun ity n ame a nd asso ciat ed IP ad dress . Name En ter the c ommu nity str ing fo r the SN MP trap p acke t to be se nt to the trap m anage r . This may be u p to 16 c haracter s and is c ase se nsitive. IP Addr ess Enter the IP addr[...]

72 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Community Displays the com munity string f or the SNMP trap p acket to be se nt to the trap manager . Note that tr ap receive r communit ies and SNMP communi ties are separ ate and disti nct. IP Addr ess Displays the IP a ddress t o recei ve SNMP traps from thi s device . St a t u s Indic[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 73 Name The RFC number if a pplicabl e and the na me of th e MIB. Descripti on The RFC ti tle or MIB d escri ption. Clic k the R efre sh bu tton t o retr ieve a nd disp lay th e dat abas e agai n star ting w ith t he firs t entr y in th e table. Stat i s ti c s This menu pr ovides access to me[...]

74 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E ifIndex This obje ct ind icate s the ifI ndex of the inte rfac e table en try as socia ted with t he processo r of t his switc h. Received Octets Rece ived The total numbe r of octe ts of dat a received by the proce ssor (e xcluding fr aming bi ts but incl uding FCS oct ets). Pack ets R e[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 75 Octe ts T ransm itte d The total number o f octets of dat a transmit ted on th e networ k includi ng frami ng bits. Pack ets T ra nsmitt ed Witho ut Er rors The total number o f packets that have been t ransmitte d on the networ k without a n erro r occu rring. Unicast Pac kets T ransmit te[...]

76 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Click the Clear Counters bu tton t o clear a ll th e counter s, rese ttin g all summary and swi tch detai led statis tics to defaul ts, exc ept for t he coun ts of d iscarded packet s, which can not be c leared. Clic k the Re fresh butto n to refr esh th e dat a on the s creen with th e p[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 77 T ransm it P ack et E rrors The number of outbou nd packets that c ould not be trans mitted be cause of erro rs. Addres s Entries Cur r ently In Us e The number of lear ned and sta tic Forwar ding Dat abase Addr ess T able entries current ly in use b y this switch modul e. VLAN Entries Curr[...]

78 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Octets Rece ived The total number o f octets of dat a (inclu ding th ose in bad pack ets) rec eived o n the network ( exclu ding fra ming bi ts bu t inclu ding FCS octets) . This objec t can b e used as a reas onable estima te of Ethernet u tiliza tion. I f greate r pre cision is desir ed[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 79 Jabbers Rece ived The total number o f packets recei ved tha t were lon ger th an 1518 o ctets (excludi ng fram ing bits, but incl uding FCS octe ts), a nd had eit her a bad Fr ame Check Sequence (F CS) with a n integra l number of oct ets (FCS Err or) or a bad FCS wit h a non- integral num[...]

80 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Packets T ransmit ted 1024-151 8 Octets The total nu mber of pac kets (incl uding ba d packets) transmi tted that were between 102 4 and 1518 octet s in leng th (ex cluding f raming bit s but incl uding FCS octets) . Packets T ransmit ted 1519-152 2 Octets The total nu mber of pac kets (i[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 81 Excessive Collis ion Frame s The number of packet s which were not su ccessful ly tr ansmit ted becaus e of exces sive colli sion s. STP BPDUs Received The number of STP BPDUs (Bridge Proto col Data Uni ts) rece ived by the spanni ng tr ee layer . STP BPDUs T ransmitted The number of STP BP[...]

82 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Click the Clear Counte rs button to cl ear a ll the c ounter s, res etting a ll st atisti cs fo r thi s port t o defa ult values. Click the Clea r All Count ers butt on to clear al l the count ers for all ports, r esett ing all stat ist ics for all ports to default values . Clic k the Re [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 83 Port Use this fi eld to sele ct the port f or wh ich to displa y sta tist ics. Cl ick th e dow n arr ow to displ ay the list of ports from which t o choose . ifIndex This object indica tes th e ifIndex of t he inte rface table entr y associ ated wit h this port on an adapt er . T otal Pack [...]

84 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Click the Clea r All Count ers butt on to clear al l the count ers for all ports, r esett ing all stat ist ics for all ports to default values . Clic k the Re fresh butto n to refr esh th e dat a on the s creen with th e pres ent st ate of the data in the switch. System u tilities This me[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 85 Reset configuration to de fault s Click the Reset b utton to r eset the confi gurat ion of the switc h module to t he fac tory defa ults. The switch is automat ically reset when this command is proces sed. All configur ation changes th at you have made, i ncluding t hose saved to NVRAM, wil[...]

86 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Download file to switch Use this p anel t o configur e the informati on need ed to do wnload a file to the swi tch.[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 87 File T ype Specify t he type of file to be d ownloaded t o the s witch: Code 8051 MCU Code Config SSH RSA1 Key File SSH RSA2 Key PEM File SSH DSA Key PEM File SSL T rus ted Root Cer tifica te PEM File SSL Server Ce rtific ate PEM Fi le SSL DH W eak Encryption Pa ramete r PEM File SSL DH Str[...]

88 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Upload file from switch Use this panel to conf igure the in format ion neede d to up load a file from t he switch. See th e previ ous menu option “Downl oad f ile to swit ch” on page 86 fo r more inf ormation abou t speci fying TFTP File Paths and Names. File T ype This fie ld sets t [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 89 Ping Use this p anel t o have the switch transmi t a Ping r equest t o a spec ified IP addres s. This checks whether t he swit ch can communi cate with a part icular I P devic e. Once you cl ick t he Apply but ton, the switc h will send thre e pings and the r esult s will be d ispla yed in [...]

90 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Authentica tion Indi cates whe ther au then ticati on fa ilure traps will b e sen t (E nable ) or n ot (D isable ). This fiel d Enables o r Disab les the Aut henti cation Fla g, which d etermines whether a trap me ssage is sent whe n the s witch dete cts an authen ticati on failur e. The [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 91 Number of T raps Since Last Reset The number of traps that hav e occur red since the l ast time t he switch was res et. Num ber of T raps Since L og L ast Viewed The number of traps that hav e occurre d since the trap s were l ast disp layed. Displayi ng the tr aps by any met hod (termin al[...]

92 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E • Spanning t ree VLAN This menu pr ovides acc ess to V irtual Local Area Network (VLAN) conf igurati on, dis plays sta tus and displ ays summary i nformat ion. Menu opt ions ar e: • Config uration • S tatus • Port conf igura tion • Port s ummary • Reset conf igura tion Configu[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 93 always has a na me of Defaul t. Use this f ield to chan ge an exis ting Name. This f ield is optio nal. VLAN T ype What type of VLAN this is. A VLAN can be: • the Defa ult VLA N (VL AN ID = 1). • a Stat ic VL AN, one that y ou cre ate us ing this pane l or th e config vl an cr eate comm[...]

94 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Exclude This port i s neve r a mem ber of th is VL AN. Th is is e quiva lent t o registr ation fo rbidde n in the I EEE 802.1Q st andard. Autodetect This port will not parti cipate in t his VLAN unl ess a GVRP joi n request is rec eived on this por t. Thi s is equiv alent to reg istrat io[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 95 In order to chan ge a VLAN from Dynami c to S tati c, use the VLAN Configurat ion panel or the conf ig vlan makes tatic co mmand. Broadc ast S torm Contr ol Mode This field s hows the mode of broa dcast st orm cont rol on the VLAN. If stor m control is Enabl ed, storms are co ntrolle d by c[...]

96 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E it rec eives. If yo u select Admit Al l, unt agged and prior ity tagged frames receive d on the port will b e accepte d and as signed the val ue of the Port VLAN ID for this port. Whicheve r you se lect , VLAN tagged fr ames wil l be f orwarded in accor dance with the IEEE 802 .1Q VLAN st[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 97 Reset configuration All V LAN c onfig urati on pa ramete rs are reset t o thei r facto ry de fault values i f you c lick t he Re set button an d confi rm your sel ectio n on the nex t scr een. Also , all VLANs, exc ept fo r the def ault VLAN, will be de lete d. The facto ry def ault val ues[...]

98 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E T o add a new fil ter , sele ct Crea te Filt er fro m the to p of the l ist. Up to 48 s tatic M AC filter s may be creat ed. MAC Address The MAC addre ss of the filt er in th e format 00-01- 1A-B2-53-4D. Y ou ca n only change thi s field when you h ave sel ected th e Create Fi lter option[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 99 MAC Address The MAC addre ss of the fi lter in the fo rmat 00- 01-1A- B2-53-4D. VLAN ID The VLA N ID a ssoci ated w ith th e filt er . Dest inat ion Por t Mem bers A list of the po rts to whi ch packets with the MAC ad dress a nd VLAN ID may be forwarded . GARP This menu pr ovides acc ess t[...]

100 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port GVRP Mode Indicat es wheth er the GVRP admi nistrat ive mode for the p ort is Ena bled or Disabled. The factory default is Disa bled. Port GMRP Mode Indi cates whet her th e GMR P admi nistra tive m ode for the port is E nabl ed or Disab led. T he factory default is Disa bled. Join [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 101 GVRP Mode Choose the GVRP adminis trative mo de for the switch by selecti ng Enable or Disable f rom the pull -down menu. The fac tory defa ult i s Disable. GMRP Mode Choose the GMRP administ rati ve mode for t he swit ch by sel ectin g Enable or Disabl e from the pull -down menu. The fac [...]

102 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port S elect the por t you w ant to conf igure fr om th e pul l-down list, or sele ct all ports . Port GVRP Mode Specify th e GVRP admini strati ve mode for th e port by se lecti ng Enable or Dis able fr om the pull-down menu. If you s elect Dis able, t he protoc ol will no t be ac tive [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 103 centise conds (10 s econds) . An instan ce of t his timer exists f or each GARP pa rtic ipant for each port . Click the Apply butt on to upd ate the s witch wi th the val ues you enter . If you want the s witch to retain the new v alues across a power cycle you mus t perf orm a sa ve. IGMP[...]

104 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E than the Gro up Mem bers hip Int erval . Mul ticast R out er Presen t Expir ation Tim e (secs ) Specify t he amount of time yo u want the s witch t o wait to receive a query o n an int erface before r emoving i t from the list of in terface s with mul ticast route rs attac hed. Ent er a [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 105 LAG This menu pr ovides acc ess to the Li nk Aggregat ion (LAG) configura tion a nd status screens. Menu options a re: • Config uration • S tatus Configuration Use th is pan el to co nfig ure a new LAG , assign a name to it and ge nera te a log ical p ort num ber fo r it. The logic al [...]

106 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E STP Mode Sets the STP mode for t he spec ified LAG(s ). Port Identifies a physic al por t. T o add the port to th e LAG select Includ e from the P arti cipat ion column. Ther e can be a max imum of 8 member po rts in a LAG . Part icipa tion For each po rt spe cify whet her it is to be in[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 107 STP Mode The Spanning T ree Protocol Adminis trativ e Mode ass ociated wi th the LAG . The possible value s are: Disable Spanning t ree is Dis abled for this LAG . Enable Spanning t ree is Ena bled for this LAG . Link T rap Indicat es wheth er or not a trap will be s ent when link stat us [...]

108 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E MAC Address Enter a MAC addr ess and VLAN pa ir for which the switch has forwar ding and/o r filter ing i nformat ion. The format is two tw o-digit hexade cimal nu mbers represe nting t he VLAN and s ix two-di git he xadecima l numbers r epres enting th e MAC address, separat ed by hyp h[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 109 represe nting t he VLAN and s ix two-di git he xadecima l numbers r epres enting th e MAC address, separat ed by hyp hens; for example , 00-01-00- 23-45- 67-89-AB. Ty p e Dis plays the t ype of t he ent ry . S tatic entr ies are thos e that are con figur ed by the end user . Dynami c entri[...]

110 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Clic k the Re fresh button to upda te the scree n with th e late st infor mati on. Stats This panel displays the MFDB stat isti cs. Max MFDB T able Entries Disp lays the tota l num ber of en tries possi ble in the MFD B table . Most MFDB Entries Since Las t Reset Displays the la r gest n[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 111 Spanning T ree Admin Mode Select Enab le or Disable from the pul l-down menu to spe cify whether spanni ng tree operati on is Enabl ed on th e switch. Forc e Pr otoco l V ersion Specify t he ver sion of the Spa nning T ree Protocol (STP) you want t he swit ch to use. The option s are IEEE [...]

112 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Bridge P riority Specifie s the bridge pri ority . The value may be betwee n 0 and 61 440. It is set i n multiple s of 409 6. For example , if yo u enter an y value between 0 and 409 5, it will be set to 0. If y ou enter a ny value between 409 6 and (2 *4096-1) it will be set t o 4096. T[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 113 T opology Chang e The value o f the t opolog y change par ameter for the s witch indica ting if a topol ogy change is in pro gress on any por t on the b ridge. It ta kes a valu e if T rue or Fal se. Designated Root The bridge ident ifier of t he root br idge. Root Path Cost Path Cost to th[...]

114 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port Prior ity Spec ify th e priori ty for the se lecte d port . The p ort pri ority is set i n multi ples o f 16, and the r ange is 0 to 240. Admin Edge Port Sele ct En able to specif y the p ort as an Ed ge Po rt wit hin the C ST . Di sable is the defa ult. Port Path Cost Set the Path [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 115 CST Path Cost Path Cost to t he CST Regi onal Root. Click the Appl y butto n to send th e updated scr een to the switch an d cause th e changes to t ake ef fect on the swi tch. I f you want the s witch to retai n the new values acros s a power c ycle you must per form a save. Click the For[...]

116 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E 802.1p prio rity mapping Use this pan el to sp ecify how IEEE 802 .1p prio rity c lasses ar e to be mappe d to the sw itch’ s internal traf fi c classes . User Prior ity The 802.1p us er pri ority t o be mapped . T raffic Class Use the pul l-down menus to s elect t he inter nal tr aff [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 117 • Port conf igura tion • Po rt stat us • Port s ummary • S tatist ics • Login • Port a ccess pri vile ges • Port acce ss summar y Configuration Use this panel t o enable or dis able auth entic ation supp ort on the switc h. In di sabled mode , the I EEE 802.1X confi gurat ion[...]

118 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port Select th e port to be configured . When the select ion is cha nged, a scree n refresh wil l occur cau sing al l fi elds to be update d for the newly se lected po rt. All physical inte rfaces ar e val id. Contr ol Mode Lists the option s for contr ol mode. The co ntrol mode is onl y[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 119 T ransmit Period (secs) Configure s the t ransmi t period f or th e select ed port . The trans mit per iod is the value, in seconds , of th e timer us ed by th e authe nticator stat e machine o n the spec ified port to dete rmin e when t o send an Ex tens ible Au thent icati on Pro toco l [...]

120 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port Select t he por t whose in form ation wil l be d isplayed. When t he se lection is cha nged, a screen refre sh will oc cur ca using all fields to be up dated f or the ne wly sel ected port. All physic al inter faces are vali d. Contr ol Mode Displays the con figured c ontrol mode fo[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 121 the suppl icant . The tr ansmit per iod ra nge is 1 to 65535. Supplicant Ti meout (secs ) Displays the con figur ed supplic ant t imeout for the se lected po rt. The suppli cant timeout i s the va lue, in seconds , of the ti mer used by the au thent icator st ate mac hine on this po rt to [...]

122 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E • Aborting •H e l d • Force Autho rized • Force Unaut horiz ed Backend S tate Disp lays the cu rrent state o f the b acke nd aut hent icatio n stat e mac hine. P ossi ble values ar e: •R e q u e s t • Respons e • Success •F a i l • T imeout • Ini tializ e •I d l e C[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 123 Force Unauthorize d The authent icat or port a ccess entity ( P AE) uncondi tiona lly sets the controll ed por t to unaut horiz ed. Force Authori zed The authent icat or P AE uncon ditio nally sets the contro lled p ort(s) t o authoriz ed mode. Auto The authent icator P AE sets t he cont r[...]

124 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port Select t he port whose infor mation is to be displaye d. When the sel ecti on is change d, a screen refre sh occurs causi ng all fi elds t o be update d for t he newl y select ed port . All physi cal in terface s are v alid. EAPOL Frames Received The number of valid EAPOL fr ames of[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 125 EAP Request/ID F rames T ransmitted The number of EAP request /ident ity fra mes that ha ve been transm itted by t his authen ticator . EAP Request Frames T ransmitted The numbe r of EAP requ est fra mes (o ther th an re quest /identi ty fra mes) that ha ve been trans mitte d by thi s auth[...]

126 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Click the Refresh bu tton t o update t he inf ormation on the pa ge. Click the Appl y butto n to send th e updated scr een to the switch an d cause th e changes to t ake ef fect on the swit ch. Port access privileges Use this p anel t o add the s pecif ied use r to the list of users wi t[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 127 Port The port who se inf ormati on is disp layed o n this line. Users Th e loca lly con figur ed use rs wi th acces s to th e spec ified port. Click the Refresh bu tton t o update t he inf ormation on the pa ge. RADIU S The Remote Aut hentica tion Di al-in Us er Ser vice (RADIUS) menu pr o[...]

128 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E attemp t, all us er int erfaces are block ed unti l the RADIUS appli cation r eturns a respon se. Curre nt Serve r IP Addr ess The IP address of the current server . This fiel d is blank if no server s are configu red. Number of Confi gur ed Servers The number of RADIUS se rvers tha t ha[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 129 RADIUS Server IP Add r ess Select the RADI US Server to be conf igured. Se lect Ad d to add a ne w serve r . Port The User Datagram Pr otocol (UDP) port u sed by thi s serv er . The val id range i s 0 - 65535. Secr et The s hare d secr et for t his se rver . The da ta ente red in this f ie[...]

130 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E RADIUS statistics This panel displa ys RADIUS stat istics f or the s witch th at are no t associa ted with a specif ic server or accounti ng serv er . Invalid Se rver Addr esses The number of RADIUS Access-Re sponse packets r eceived f rom unknown addresse s. Click the Refresh bu tton t [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 131 RADIUS Server IP Add r ess Sele ct the IP addr ess of the se rver w hose in form ation is to be d ispla yed. Round T rip Time (se cs) The time, i n second s, between t he most recent RADIUS Access- Reply/Acces s- Challenge and the matching Acc ess-Reques t from thi s RADIUS serve r . Acces[...]

132 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Pending Reques ts The number of RADIUS Acces s-Request packets se nt to this ser ver th at have not yet timed out or received a resp onse. Timeo uts The number of RADIUS packe ts sent to t his serve r that ha ve timed out . Unknown T ypes The number of RADIUS packets of unkno wn type rec[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 133 Secr et Configur ed Indicat es wheth er the shared se cret for this accoun ting s erver has been con figur ed. Click the Appl y butto n to send th e updated scr een to the switch an d cause th e changes to t ake ef fect on the swi tch. I f you want the s witch to retai n the new values acr[...]

134 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Malform ed Accounti ng Responses Displays the numbe r of malfor med RADIUS Account ing-Res ponse packe ts re ceived fr om this ser ver . Malfo rmed pack ets incl ude pack ets with a n invali d lengt h. Bad authe ntica tors and unknown t ypes ar e not incl uded a s malformed a ccount ing [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 135 HTTPS Admin Mode Select Enabl e or Disabl e to turn the Admin istrative Mode of Secur e HTTP on or of f. The current ly config ured va lue is sho wn when the web page is displ ayed. The default value is Disable. TLS V ersion 1 Select Ena ble or Dis able to t urn T ransport La yer Securi ty[...]

136 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Secu re She ll Secure She ll (SSH) is the s tandard en crypt ion pro tocol use d to pr ovide a sec ure in teracti ve log in over a net work. Thi s Secure Sh ell menu provides access to the SSH c onfigurat ion pa nel. Configuration Use this p anel t o configur e SSH var iable s. Admin Mod[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 137 Click the Submit bu tton to se nd the up dated scr een to t he switch and have the cha nges ta ke ef fect on the s witch If you want th e swi tch to re tain th e new v alues acro ss a po wer cyc le yo u must p erfor m a save. Click the Refres h button t o disp lay th e current page wi th t[...]

138 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E ACL M ake a sele ction fr om the pul l-down menu. Y ou may creat e a new ACL or upd ate t he configur ation of an exis ting ACL. ACL ID ACL ID must be a whole number b etween 1 and 100. Ports This dynami c multi-s elector l ists al l avai lable va lid inte rfac es for ACL mappi ng. All n[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 139 Summary This panel displays a summary of all ACLs on the s witch. ACL The ACL identifier . Rules Th e numb er of r ules tha t are a ssoci ated wi th this ACL. Ports The inter faces th at are assoc iated wit h this ACL. Dire ction The packet filt ering di recti on for th e ACL on the inte r[...]

140 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E ACL Use the pull-do wn menu to sel ect the ACL for whi ch you want to cr eate or update a rule. Rule Enter a whol e number in th e range of 1 to 10 t hat will be used to ide ntify th e rule. An ACL may have up t o 10 use r- specifie d rules. Action Spec ify w hat acti on sh ould b e take[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 141 Prot ocol Keyword Specify tha t a packet ’ s IP protocol is a matc h condition for the select ed ACL rule. If you click Configu re on this line you will be shown a n ew screen whe re you can select the pr otocol t o be us ed as the match condit ion. Th e possi ble val ues ar e ICMP , IGM[...]

142 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Sourc e L4 Port Keyword Specify t hat a packet’ s source Layer 4 port i s a matc h conditi on for the sele cted ACL rule. If you cl ick Con figure on this line y ou will be shown a new scre en wher e you can sel ect t he port t o be use d as th e match condi tion. The p ossibl e values[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 143 Ban dwidt h Profil e Select Cr eate fro m the pull- down menu to co nfigur e a new bandwi dth profi le, or select o ne of the ex isti ng profil es to d isplay an d update its configura tion. Ba ndwidth pro file 1, na med default , always exi sts and yo u cannot ch ange or delete i t. Name [...]

144 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Ban dwidt h Profil e Displays the numbe r assoc iated wit h the bandwidth pr ofil e. Name Displays the name of t he band width prof ile. Allocate d Minimum Bandwidth Displays the sum of the minimum gu aranteed bandwidt h for al l bandwi dth pro files configur ed on th is inter face. Maxi[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 145 T raffic Class Select Cre ate from the pull-down menu t o confi gure a new T raffi c Class, or select one of the existin g classes to di splay and up date i ts confi gurat ion. Name Enter the name to be gi ven to the T raff ic Class. Y ou may enter up t o 15 alpha- numeric charact ers and [...]

146 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E There is no restri ctio n on the sum of the max imum bandwidth of all T raf fic Cla sses associat ed with the same inter face. When a T r af fic Class is atta ched to a LAG inter face, the bandwidth a llocati on prof ile mini mum bandwidt h parameter will not be appl icable t o the T raf[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 147 Interface allocation sum mary This panel d ispla ys the b andwid th all ocated to the listed in terfa ces. Th e alloc ated mi nimu m bandwid th does not exceed the ca pabilit y of the i nterf ace unles s the i nterfac e is a LAG . Interfac e The Port de signat ion of an interfa ce for whic[...]

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149 6 Up dating the Ethernet Switc h Sof tware T wo typ es of s oftware r un on th e Ethernet switch modul e: the s oftwar e image and t he Micr o- Controll er Unit (MCU) cod e. Y ou ca n updat e both the soft ware i mage and t he cod e, using ei ther the switch modul e's CLI comman ds through a T elnet sessi on, or by usi ng the switch modul [...]

150 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Obt aining the la te st vers ion T o dete rmin e the l atest v ersion of the switc h modu le so ftwar e, avai lable from Intel, c omple te the followin g steps : 1. Go to http://do wnloadf inder .int el.com. 2. Enter "IXM5414E" i n the do wnload s earch box a nd cli ck "Go[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 151 8. Review the informa tion on the scree n and ent er 'y' whe n prompte d to con firm the co rrectn ess of the en tries. After co nfirma tion, the MCU code is tr ansferre d to the s witch from t he TFTP se rver . After success ful upd ate, the s witch mod ule is aut omatical ly po[...]

152 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Upgrading the MCU code using we b interfa ce T o upgr ade the s witch MCU cod e using the W eb interfa ce, complete the f ollowing s teps: 1. Log on to the manageme nt module web inter face. 2. From the I/O Modul e T asks menu, clic k Management / Advanced Management . 3. Click Star t W [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 153 4. Click Power Of f Module (s). 5. Select the I/O-m odule bay on which t he softwar e update i s instal led, a gain. 6. Click Power On Module( s). W ait 70 second s for POST to be c ompleted 7. Make sure tha t the late st switc h opera ting-sys tem sof tware is corr ectly inst alled on the[...]

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155 7 Command Line Interface Manag ement Y our I ntel® Bl ade Ser ver Ethe rnet Switch Mod ule I XM5414E supp orts a manageme nt inte rface that you can use to set up and c ontrol yo ur devi ce over t he netwo rk using t he TCP/IP T elne t protoco l. Y ou can use this f acilit y to perf orm the same n etwork manage ment fun ctions t hat you can pe[...]

156 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E • Entering Ctrl- Z will ret urn you to the root lev el comm and promp t. Paramet ers The follo wing conv entio ns appl y to the pa ramete rs: • Parameter s are order d ependent. • Parameter s are displayed in thi s document i n bold ital ic font, whi ch must be replac ed with a nam[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 157 character stri ngs Use double q uotat ion mark s to ident ify c haracter strings , for e xample, “ System Name with Spac es”. An e mpty strin g (“”) is not va lid. Commen t s When you ar e writi ng a tes t or conf igurati on scri pt you ma y add commen ts by usin g the “# ” cha[...]

158 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E !n execute t he nth command in history b uf fer !str execute t he most recent co mmand t hat star ts with the str ing “str ”. !*str exe cute the most rec ent co mmand that conta ins the st ring “str”. ? list ch oices Remotely manag ing the IXM5414E swit ch module The IXM5414E swi[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 159 The IXM5414E swi tch module s upport s user -bas ed securi ty that y ou can u se to prev ent unauthori zed use rs from ac cessing t he switc h module or chan ging it s setting s. This se ction tells you how to log o n to th e switch modul e for th e first time. Complete th e foll owing ste[...]

160 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Mana ging use r acc oun t s Access to the IXM5414 E switch modul e is cont roll ed through an auth orized use r ID and pas sword. The switch support s a maximum of six use r account s, only one of which can hav e Read/writ e privile ges. The interfa ce does not permit dele tion of t he c[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 161 System c ommands These commands displ ay and conf igure system inf ormation an d stat istics . Address Resolution Proto col (ARP) cache show arp switch Use this c ommand to d isplay th e conne ctivity between the swi tch and ot her dev ices. The Add ress Resoluti on Prot ocol (ARP) ca che [...]

162 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E ifIndex The ifInd ex of t he MIB int erface t able ent ry ass ociated wi th the port. St a t u s The statu s of t he entry . The possi ble value s are: St a t i c The value o f the c orrespond ing in stance was added by the sys tem or a user and cannot be relea rned. Learned The entry wa[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 163 Additional Packages The list of opt ional sof tware p ackage s instal led on the switch , if an y . For exa mple, Quality o f Service . Logs show eventlog Use this c ommand to d isplay th e event log, whi ch is use d to hol d erro r messages for ca tastroph ic events. Af ter t he event is [...]

164 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Format config port au toneg <port/ listof port s/all> <e nable/d isable> config port flowcontrol Use this c ommand to enabl e or disa ble IEEE 802 .3x flow c ontrol f or one o r more port s. Default disable Format co nfig po rt fl owcon trol <port/lis tofport s/all > &l[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 165 Probe Probe p ort, part icipa ting in Port Mi rror ing. LAG Member of a LAG . Admin Mode Displays t he admini stra tion mode of th e port. The port must be enabled in order f or it to be allowe d into the network . The fa ctory default i s enab led. Physical Mode Displays the por t spee d [...]

166 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E show mirroring Use this c ommand t o displa y the po rt mir roring in format ion for the s witch mod ule. Format sh ow m irrori ng Port Mirrorin g Mod e Indicat es wheth er the port mirroring featu re is enable d or disab led. Probe Port The port t hat i s configur ed as t he probe po rt[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 167 Format co nfig s nmpco mmu nity i paddr <ipaddr> <name> config snmpco mmunity ipmask Specify t he mask t o be ANDed with the re questing entit y's IP addr ess be fore c omparison wi th th e SNM P comm unit y IP add ress a ssoci ated wi th the same commun ity n ame. If the [...]

168 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E then the addres s is an aut henti cated IP a ddress . For ex ample, i f the IP a ddress = 9.47.128. 0 and the co rresp onding Clie nt IP mas k = 255.2 55.255.0, a ra nge of incoming I P addres ses would mat ch, i.e . the inco ming IP ad dress could equal 9.47.128. 0 - 9.47.128.25 5. The [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 169 Ena ble - trap s will b e sen t Disable - traps wil l not be s ent. System configuration Network connectivi ty config network javamode Use this c ommand to e nable or disabl e the j ava apple t that display s a pic ture of t he swit ch modul e at the top r ight o f the scr een when you are[...]

170 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E show network Use this c ommand to d isplay ne twork co nfigurat ion se tting s that ar e neces sary for in-ba nd connec tivity . Format sh ow ne twor k IP Addr ess The IP addres s of the i nterfac e. The factor y defaul t value is 10.90.90.9x, where x is determine d by the the nu mber of[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 171 config telnet mode Use this c ommand to all ow or disal low new T elnet and SSH se ssions . If session s are e nabled, ne w T elne t sess ions ca n be establ ished un til th ere are no more sess ions av ailab le. If sessio ns are disa bled, no new T elnet session s are est ablished but an [...]

172 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E config u sers passwd Use t his co mman d to ch ange the pa sswor d of an exist ing us er . The pa sswo rd is u p to ei ght alphanumer ic cha racters and is case- sensiti ve. After you enter thi s command y ou will be prompted for t he user’ s current pass word. If none, pres s enter . [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 173 User Access Mode Shows whether the us er is abl e to chang e para meters on the sw itch (Rea d/writ e) or is only a ble to view th em (Read-onl y). As a f actory d efaul t, admin h as Read/w rite access an d guest has Read -only acc ess. The re can onl y be one Read/wri te user a nd up to [...]

174 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E config sysco nt act Use this c ommand to conf igure the name of t he per son or or ganization res ponsib le for t he switch. The r ange for na me is from 1 to 31 al phan umeric chara cters . Format config sy scontac t <contact> config sysl ocation Use this c ommand to conf igure th[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 175 Packets Rec eived 15 19-1522 Octets The total number o f packets (includi ng bad p ackets) r eceived t hat were b etween 1519 and 1522 octet s in lengt h (exclu ding fr aming bits but incl uding FCS o ctets). Pack ets R eceive d >15 22 Oc tets The total number o f packets (includi ng ba[...]

176 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E interf ace is operat ing in ha lf-du plex mode . Packets T ransmitted T ota l Pac kets T ran smit ted (Oc tets) The total number o f octets of dat a (inclu ding th ose in bad pack ets) tr ansmitt ed on the networ k (exc luding fr aming bi ts but in cludi ng FCS octe ts). This object can [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 177 T o tal T ransm it E rrors The sum of Si ngle, Multi ple and Excessive Collisio ns. Tx FCS Err ors The total number o f packets trans mitted th at had a lengt h (exclud ing fr aming bi ts but incl uding FCS oct ets) o f between 6 4 and 1518 oct ets, inc lusive , but had a b ad Frame Che ck[...]

178 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E GMRP PDUs Received The number of GMRP PDUs recei ved. GMRP PDUs T ransmitted The number of GMRP PDUs tran smitted. GMRP PDUs Failed Regi strations The number of times attempted GMRP regist rations could n ot be co mpleted . Time Si nce Counters Last Cle ared The elapse d time i n days, h[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 179 Unicast Pac kets Rec eived The number of subnet work-un icast pac kets d elivere d to a hi gher -la yer protoc ol. Mult icast Packe ts Rece ived The number of packets received t hat were dire cted to a mul ticast ad dress. Note that this number does n ot inc lude packe ts dir ected to the [...]

180 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Most VLAN Entries Ever Used The highes t number of VLANs tha t have bee n acti ve on this switch modul e since the last reboo t. S tatic VLAN Entries The number of VLANs curr ently act ive on this swit ch modul e that wer e crea ted static ally . Dynamic VLAN Entrie s The number of VLANs[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 181 show sysinfo Use t his co mman d to di splay s witch info rmati on. Format show sysinfo Switch Descr iption The product name of the switc h. System Name The name u sed to ide ntif y the swi tch. Syst em Lo catio n T ext used to identif y the loca tion o f the sw itch. Ma y be up to 31 alph[...]

182 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E clear pa ss Use this c ommand to res et all user pas swords to t he fac tory defa ults. Y ou will be pro mpted to conf irm th at the pass word reset s houl d proce ed. Format clear pass clea r st ats port Use this c ommand t o clear the st atisti cs for a specif ied por t. Y ou will be p[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 183 ping Use this c ommand to h ave the switch tr ansmit a Ping request t o a spe cified I P addre ss. This checks whether t he swit ch can communi cate with a part icular I P devic e. The switc h will sen d thre e Ping requ ests a nd dis play th e resu lts. T he swi tch ca n be pi nged fr om [...]

184 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E transfer down load path Use this command to spe cify the dire ctory pat h on t he TFTP se rver wh ere the f ile to be d ownloaded to the swit ch is loc ated. The sw itch w ill re member the la st file path u sed. This command i s valid on ly when t he T ransfer Mode is TF TP . Se e trans[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 185 transfer upload da tatype Use this c ommand to s pecif y the type of fi le to be up loaded from th e switch. Format transfer upload datat ype <confi g/errorl og/msglog/ trapl og> The datat ype is one of the follo wing: config Configura tion f ile err orlog Erro r log msglog Message l[...]

186 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Format transfer upload star t The f ollow ing i nform ation fields are di splay ed: TFTP Server IP Addr ess The Inter net Proto col (I P) addres s of th e serv er wher e the fil e is to be upload ed. TFTP File Path The direc tory pa th spe cificat ion fo r the fi le to b e uploa ded. TFT[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 187 Link Up/Down Flag Indicat es wheth er a tra p will be s ent when the link s tatus ch anges f rom up to down or vice v ersa. Multipl e Users Flag Indi cates wheth er a trap w ill be sent whe n the s ame u ser ID is l ogged into the s witch more th an once at the sam e tim e (eithe r via T e[...]

188 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Generi c Attribute Reg istration Protoco l (GARP) comm ands config garp gmrp adminm ode Use this c ommand to enabl e or disa ble the GARP Mul ticast Regis tratio n Protocol (GMRP) on the switch module. Default disab le Format config garp gmrp a dminmode <enable/ disable> config gar[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 189 config garp leavetimer Use this c ommand to conf igure the GARP Leave T ime for the speci fied port (s). Leave T ime is the time to wai t after recei ving an unr egist er reque st for a VLAN or a mu lticast group before del eting the VLAN entr y or gr oup. This allows ti me for a nother st[...]

190 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Port GMRP Mode Indicat es the GMRP administra tive mode for the por t. It may be enabl ed or disa ble d. If thi s para mete r is dis abled , Joi n T ime , Lea ve T ime an d Le aveA ll T ime have no ef fect. The fact ory def ault is disabl ed. Port GVRP Mode Indicat es the GVRP admin istr[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 191 config igmp snooping mcrtrexpiretime Use this c ommand to c onfigu re the Multic ast Router Prese nt Expira tion tim e on the s witch mod ule. This is t he amount of time i n seconds t hat a s witch will wait for a quer y to be rec eived on an inter face b efore the inte rface is remo ved [...]

192 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E config lag create Use this command to co nfigur e a new LAG , assign a name and generat e a logical por t number for it. T o dis play th e assi gned log ical port number us e the sho w lag comm and. T he <n ame> para meter is a string o f up to 15 alphanume ric chara cter s. Format[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 193 Mbr Por ts A listing of the po rts that are member s of this LAG , in por t nota tion. The re can be a maximum of 8 por ts as signed to a given LAG . Port Speed The speed of the LAG . A LAG is always f ull-duplex. MAC filt er commands config macfilter adddest Use t his co mmand to add the [...]

194 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Format config macf ilter r emove <macaddr> <vlan> show macfilter Use t his co mmand to dis play t he Static MA C Filte ring inform ation . If <all > is sel ected as the fi rst para mete r , a ll the Static M AC Fi lters in the switc h mod ule are disp layed . If a < [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 195 show mfdb staticfiltering Use t his com mand to dis play the Static Filt ering entri es in the MFDB. Format show mfdb staticfi lteri ng Mac Addr ess A MAC address an d VLAN pair f or which t he switch h as for warding and/or filter ing i nformat ion. The format is two, two- digit hexadeci [...]

196 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Forwarding In terfac es The forwar ding li st is de rived from combini ng all the comp onent’ s forwarding inte rfaces and re moving the interf aces th at are list ed as the st atic filteri ng inte rface s. Sp anning tree c ommands Sp anning tree bridge commands config sp anningtree br[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 197 Brid ge Ide ntifie r The unique i denti fier as sociated with t his bridg e inst ance. It c onsists of the bridge priorit y and the b ridge’ s bas e MAC addres s. Bridge Max Age The value th at all b ridg es use for Max Age w hen this bridg e is acti ng as t he roo t: a BPDU will be di s[...]

198 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Brid ge Ide ntifie r The unique i denti fier as socia ted with t his bridg e inst ance. Time Si nce T opolog y Change The time (i n seco nds) si nce the l ast time a topology change wa s dete cted by the bridge en tity . T opology Chang e Count The tota l number of t opology c hanges det[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 199 Port Forwardi ng S tate The forwar ding st ate of t he port within t he CST . Port Role The role o f the s pecif ied inte rface within th e CST . Auto-calc ulate Po rt Path Cost Indi cates whet her auto mati c calc ulati on of the port p ath cos t is en abled . Port Path Cost The confi gur[...]

200 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Sp anning tree port commands config sp anningtree port migrati oncheck Use t his co mman d to forc e the speci fied por t to tra nsmit R ST BP DUs. The <po rt> pa ramet er specifi es the por t(s) to be af fected. T o set the migr atio n check for all p orts with a sing le command ,[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 201 Default IEEE 802.1D Format config spa nningtr ee fo r cevers ion <802.1D/802 .1w> show spa nningtree summary Use this c ommand to d isplay STP s ettings and par ameters fo r the switch. Format show spanningtr ee summary Spanning T ree Adminmode Enabled or disab led. Spanning T ree V [...]

202 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Default disable Format config vl an mcaststor m <1-4094> <enable /disable > [packet s per second] config vlan name Use this c ommand to chang e the name of a VLAN. The name i s an alphan umeric s tring of up t o 16 charact ers, and th e numb er identi fies an exist ing VLAN. [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 203 Default 1 Format config vlan por t pvid <1-4094 > <por t/listof ports/all > config vlan port t agging Use this c omma nd to c onfig ure the tagg ing beh avio r for a speci fic in terfac e in a VLAN. If ta ggin g is enab led, al l traffic is trans mitt ed as ta gged fr ames . If[...]

204 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Include This port is always a member of t his VLAN. This i s equival ent to registr ation fi xed in the IE EE 802.1Q st andard . Exclude This port i s neve r a mem ber of th is VL AN. Th is is e quiva lent t o registr ation fo rbidde n in the I EEE 802.1Q st andard. Autodetect This port [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 205 In order to chan ge a VLAN fr om dynamic to stati c, use the config vlan makesta tic command. BcastS torm This displa ys the admin istrative mode of broadcast storm control for this VLAN. If storm cont rol i s enabled, s torms a re contro lled b y counting the number of broadc ast packets [...]

206 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Security configurati on commands This sect ion descr ibes t he commands us ed to c onfigure a nd manage the secur ity feat ures of the Intel® Blade Se rver Ether net Switc h Module I XM5414E. These feature s incl ude: • Authentic ation commands • IEEE 802.1X Port-bas ed network a cc[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 207 a specif ic use r if the user is c onfigu red local ly . If this val ue is not config ured, us ers will be authenti cated using local aut henti catio n only . Format config use rs default login <listna me> config users login Use t his co mman d to as sign th e spec ified authe ntica [...]

208 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Format cle ar do t1x po rt stat s < port/ all> config dot1x adminmode Use this c ommand to e nable or d isable au thent ication s upport on the swit ch. The default v alue i s disable . In dis abled mode, the dot1x confi guratio n is re taine d and ca n be changed , but i t is not [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 209 Request/I denti ty befor e timing ou t the supplican t. The max imum request s valu e must be i n the r ange of 1 and 10. Default 2 Format config dot 1x port ma xreque sts <port> <1- 10> config dot1x port quietper iod Use this c ommand to c onfigure the val ue, in seconds, of t[...]

210 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Format config dot1x po rt suppt imeout <port > <1-65535> config dot1x port transmi tperiod Use this c ommand to c onfigure the val ue, in seconds, of the t imer used by the au thentica tor st ate machine on the specif ied por t to determ ine when to se nd an EAPOL EAP Request[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 211 Supplicant Ti meout (secs ) The time r used by t he aut henticat or st ate mach ine on thi s port to timeout the supplica nt. The v alue i s express ed in seco nds and wi ll be between 1 an d 65535. Server T imeout (secs ) The time r used by t he au then ticato r on t his p ort t o tim eou[...]

212 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E EAP Response Frames Receiv ed The number of EAP respons e frames (o ther than res ponse/ ident ity frames) that have been recei ved b y the au thent icato r port. EAP Request/ID F rames T ransmitted The number of EAP respo nse/iden tity frames tha t have been trans mitte d by the authen [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 213 Remote Aut hentic ation Dia l-In Us er S ervice ( RADIUS) c ommands RADIUS accounting comm ands config ra dius account ing mode Use this c ommand to enabl e or disa ble the RADI US account ing fu nction. Default disable Format co nfig r adiu s acco unti ng m ode <enable/disable > con[...]

214 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Accounting Re transm issions The number of RADIUS accou nting req uest pa ckets retrans mitted to this accounti ng serv er . Accounting Re sponses The number of RADIUS packe ts recei ved from th is acc ountin g server . Malform ed Accounti ng Responses The number of malforme d RADIUS acc[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 215 value on e ach wil l be exha usted before the next serve r is att empted. A retrans mit wil l not occur unt il the conf igured timeout va lue on that server has pass ed wit hout a response f rom the RADIUS ser ver . Therefor e, the maximum delay in re ceiving a res ponse fr om the RADIUS a[...]

216 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E RADIUS server comman ds config radius serv er add Use this c ommand to conf igure the IP addr ess used t o conne ct to a RADIUS s erver . Up to three servers can be c onfigure d for e ach RADIUS cl ient. If thre e servers are cu rrently confi gured, one must be remov ed usi ng the conf i[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 217 Server IP Addr ess The IP addr ess of the serve r whose informa tion is d isplayed on this row . Round T rip Time The time, i n second s, betwe en the most recent RADIUS access reply/ access challeng e and the mat ching access re quest from this RADIUS serve r . Access Reques ts The number[...]

218 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Secure Shell (SSH ) commands config ssh adminmode Use t his co mman d to en able or dis able SS H. Default Disabled Format co nfig s sh ad minm ode <enable /disa ble> config ssh protocol Use this co mmand to set or remov e proto col level s (or ve rsion s) for SSH. Ei ther SSH1 (1)[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 219 Mod e Privile ged EXEC Secu re-Ser ver A dmini strat ive M ode Indicat es wheth er the admi nistrat ive mode of secure HTTP is enabl ed or dis abled. Secur e Pr otocol Le vel The protoc ol lev el may have t he val ues of SSL3, TSL 1 or bot h. Secur e Port Specif ies t he port c onfigur ed [...]

220 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E config acl rule action Use this c ommand to s pecif y the a ction for the ACL a nd rule re feren ced by t he param eters <a clid> and <rule num>. The v alues o f permit o r deny indi cate how this ru le is applied. Format co nfig a cl rul e acti on <aclid> <rulenum &[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 221 config acl rule match every Use this command to spe cify a m atch con ditio n in whi ch al l packets will be cons idered to match the ACL ru le refe renc ed by the <aclid > and <r ulenum > par ameter . If the parame ter <tru e/fal se> is set to <true>, a ll pa ckets[...]

222 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E config acl rule match sr cl4port number Use this c ommand to s pecify a p acket ’ s source layer 4 po rt matc h conditi on for the ACL rule referen ced by t he <ac lid> and < rulenu m> parameter s. The < startpor t> and <endpor t> paramet ers identif y the f irs[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 223 Bandwidth provisionin g commands BW provisioning BW alloc ation commands config bwprov isioning bwallocation create Use t his co mman d to cr eate a bandw idth a lloca tion p rofil e. The < name> fiel d is an al phan umeric string u p to 15 c haracter s. Format co nfig bw provis ioni[...]

224 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Minimum Bandwidth Displays the mini mum guaran teed bandwi dth of this band width al locati on profil e in Mbp s. Maximum Bandwidth Displays th e maximum allowable band width of thi s bandwidth all ocation pro file in Mbp s. BW provisioning traffic cl ass commands config bwprov isioning [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 225 show bwprovisioning tr afficclass allocat edbw Use this c ommand to disp lay th e bandwidth alloc ated. The a llocated minimum ban dwidth shoul d not excee d the i nterf ace ba ndwidth unl ess th e inte rface is a LAG int erfac e. Format show bwpr ovisi oning tr afficcl ass alloc atedbw &l[...]

226 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Bandwidth Allo cation Pr ofile Disp lays the ba ndwi dth al locat ion pr ofile assoc iated with this tr affic clas s. Thi s field i s blank when there is no b andwidth al locat ion profi le assoc iated with this traf fic clas s.[...]

227 Appendix A RJ-45 Pi n S pecif ication s The four e xterna l Etherne t ports o f this swi tch module a re aut o-confi guring and wi ll work wi th straigh t-throug h or cross over ca bles when c onnecte d to other Ethernet equipme nt. Review the documentat ion th at comes wit h the p roduct you a re con necting t o for ma tching cab le pin assign[...]

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229 Appendix B Cable Lengt hs Use the fo llowin g tabl e as a g uide fo r the ma ximum cabl e len gths: T abl e 8. Maxi mum cabl e lengths Sta nd ar d Data transm ission rate Media type Maximu m dist ance 1000BASE-T 100 0 Mbp s Catego ry 5e UTP ca ble Category 5 UTP cable 100 meters (328.1 ft) 100BASE-TX 100 Mbp s Category 5 UTP cable 100 meters (3[...]

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231 Appendix C Run-time Switc hing Sof tware Default Settings The follo wing ta ble con tains the defau lt se tting s for the run-t ime swit ching sof tware v ariable s. V ariables are separa ted by category a nd fur ther b y sub-headi ngs (l iste d alphabet ical ly within category ). "Def ault val ue" is se lf-e xplanator y while " [...]

232 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Reaut henticati on Sequenc e Disabl e config d ot1x po rt reauthenti cate Serv er T imeou t 30 se conds confi g dot1x port serv erti meout Supplic ant T ime Out 30 se conds confi g dot1x po rt suppt imeout Tr an sm it P e r i o d 30 se conds config d ot1x po rt transmitp eriod Remote Aut[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 233 Accept fram e all co nfig vlan port accept frame Broa dcast S t orm di sable co nfig vlan bcast storm Default port VI D 1 config vlan port pvid Multic ast S torm disable co nfig v lan mcas tstorm Name VLAN1 = Defaul t config vlan name Port priori ty 0 config v lan port pr iority GARP GARP [...]

234 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Link Aggregation LAG lin ktrap enable confi g lag l inktrap Sp annng T ree Protocol (STP) Bridge Forw ard De lay 15 secs config s pan ningtr ee bridge forw arddela y Hello T ime 2 secs config s panni ngtree bridge he llotim e Max Age 6 secs config span ningtr ee bridge ma xage Priority 3[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 235 Confi guratio n update Dis able Default g ateway 0.0.0.0 IP add ress 10.90.90.9 x , where x depends on the number of the bay into which you have inst alled th e switc h modul e. Subnet m ask 255.25 5.255. 0 Configuration System Cont act Blank con fig sy scontac t System Locat ion Blank con[...]

236 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E IP add ress 0.0.0.0 con fig snmp commun ity ipadd r IP M ask 0.0.0.0 config snmpcomm unit y ipma sk Mode Default priv ate an d public c ommuni ties are enab led b y def ault. The f our u ndefi ned commun ities are disable d by de fault conf ig snmpco mmuni ty mode Ty p e Public/Privat e [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 237 Authenti cate T rapfla gs Enable confi g trap flags authentic ation T ra pfl ags Link mode Enable confi g trapfl ags linkmod e T rapfla gs Multi user s Enable co nfig trap flags multi users T rapfla gs ST P Enable config trap flags stpmode T abl e 9. Defaul t settings fo r run-tim e switch[...]

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239 Appendix D CLI Command T r ee This appen dix pre sents the CLI command tr ee used in conj unction wi th th e Inte l® Blade Se rver Ethernet Switch Module IXM5414E. SWITCHING clear config igmp snooping lag dot1x port stat s pa s s radius stats st ats port switc h transfer trap log vlan config acl cre ate delete interfac e add remove rule ac tio[...]

240 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E srcip srcl4p ort keyword number authenti cation login cr eate del ete set bwprovisionin g bwal locat ion create del ete maxband width trafficclass b wallocation create del ete port vlan weight classofser vice 802.1m apping dot1x adminmod e defaultlo gin login port cont rolmode initi aliz[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 241 forwardingdb agetime garp gmrp adm inm ode inte rfac emo de gvrp admin mode inte rfac emo de joint imer leaveal ltimer leaveti mer http secure port secu reproto col secu rese rver admin mod e igmp snooping adminmod e groupmem ber- ship interva l interfac emode maxres ponse mcrtex piretime [...]

242 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E network javamod e webmode port adminmod e autoneg flowcontr ol lacp mode linktrap physi calmo de prompt protocol create delete interfac e add remove protoco l add remove vlan add remove radius accounting m ode server add port remo ve secret maxretr ansmit server add msgauth port prim ary[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 243 cre ate delete ipaddr ipmask mode snmptrap cre ate delete ipaddr mode sp anningtree adminmode bridge fo rwarddelay hell otim e maxage prio rit y cst port edgeport pathco st priority forcever sion port migrat ionchec k mode ssh admin mode protoco l syscontact syslocatio n sysname teln et ma[...]

244 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E stpmo de users add defaultlo gin delete login pa sswd snmpv3 accessmod e authenti cation encr yptio n vlan bcas tstorm cre ate delete makestat ic mcaststorm name pa rticip at ion port accep t fram e prio rit y pvid tagging hel p logout pin g reset system save config show acl detailed sum[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 245 summa ry trafficclass allocat edb w det ail ed summa ry classofser vice 802.1p mappin g dot1x port det ail ed sta ts summa ry use r summ ary eventlog forwardingdb agetime learned table garp info interfac e history http info igmp snooping inventory lag loginsession macfilter mfdb gmrp igmps[...]

246 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E port protocol radius accounting stats summa ry server stat s summa ry stats summ ary snmpcommuni ty snmptrap sp anningtree bridge cst deta ile d port det ailed summa ry port summ ary ssh info st ats port de ta ile d summa ry switc h det ail ed summa ry sysinfo teln et trapfl ags trap log[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 247 download datatype filename path server ip start upload datatype filename path server ip start[...]

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249 Appendix E CLI Configur ation Examples This appen dix pro vides e xamples of using t he CLI t o configur e the Intel® Bl ade Server Ethernet Switch Mod ule IXM5414E f or some key f unctio ns. Bridging con figurati on ex ample This sect ion pr ovides sampl e CLI comma nds showi ng how to conf igure the I ntel® Bla de Serv er Ethernet Switch Mo[...]

250 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E default priorit y mappin g provided by the switch . These commands af fec t all of the inte rfac es on the switc h and l eave t he default s uncha nged fo r prio rity le vels 3- 7. config cl assofser vice 80 2.1p mapping 0 0 config cl assofser vice 80 2.1p mapping 1 2 config cl assofser [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 251 IEEE 802.1 w confi guration example This sect ion shows yo u how to c onfigure the Int el® Blad e Server Et hernet Swi tch Modul e IXM5414E to sup port r apid reco nfigurat ion of the sp anning tr ee topolog y . The IEEE 802.1w support s pecif ied in IEEE 802.1s de fines a new confi gurat[...]

252 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E VLAN configur ation exa mple This sect ion pr ovides sampl e CLI comma nds showi ng how to conf igure the I ntel® Bla de Serv er Ethernet Switch Mod ule IXM5414E to suppor t IEEE 802.1Q VLANs. Co nfigurin g VLANs all ows you to p artiti on your n etwork on a l ogical rather t han phys i[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 253 Link agg regati on config uration ex ample This sect ion pr ovides sampl e CLI comma nds showi ng how to conf igure the I ntel® Bla de Serv er Ethernet Switch Mod ule IXM5414E to suppor t IEEE 802 .3ad aggreg ated l inks. By def ining a Li nk Aggregati on Group (LAG) y ou can t reat mu lt[...]

254 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E IGMP sn ooping config uratio n exa mple This sect ion pr ovides sampl e CLI comma nds showi ng how to conf igure the I ntel® Bla de Serv er Ethernet Switch Modu le IXM541 4E to supp ort I GMP Snooping. Activa ting IGMP Sno oping allows you to rest rict t he forwardi ng of multica st pac[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 255 Access Contro l List confi guration ex ample This sect ion pr ovides sampl e CLI comma nds showi ng how to conf igure the I ntel® Bla de Serv er Ethernet Switch Module IXM 5414E to support Acc ess Cont rol List s (ACLs). ACLs o f fer on e way of adding Quality of Servi ce support to your [...]

256 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E config acl inte rface add ex t.2 inbo und 1 config acl inte rface add ex t.3 inbo und 1 config acl inte rface add ex t.4 inbo und 1[...]

257 Appendix F T roubleshooting the S p anning T ree Pr otocol This appen dix pro vides d etails about ho w the Spanni ng T ree Protocol a nd Algorit hm work an d describe s how to tr oubles hoot them. Sp anni ng T re e Proto col (STP ) opera tion Spanning T ree Protocol (STP) is us ed in a bridg ed LAN enviro nment to reduc e the phys ical netwo r[...]

258 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E The follo wing ta ble sho ws the us er -confi gurabl e STP paramet ers f or the por ts on t he bridge . Creating a st able topology For STP to ar rive at a stab le netw ork topolo gy , the following infor mation is u sed: • A unique id entif ier for each br idge • An identif ier f or[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 259 The bridge sends BP DUs to communi cate and c onstr uct the sp anning- tree to pology . All bridge s connected to the LAN on which a packet i s transmi tted wil l receiv e the BPDU. BPDUs are not directl y for warded by the bridg e, but t he rec eivin g bridge us es the infor mation in the[...]

260 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Forwarding The por t is for warding pac kets. Fo r addi tional i nformat ion, se e “Forwardi ng sta te” on page 266 . Disabled The port r esponds onl y to networ k manageme nt messages and must return t o the discardi ng sta te firs t. For a dditiona l inf ormation, s ee “D isabled[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 261 Setting u ser-chan geable STP parameters The next t able s hows the def ault spannin g-tree c onfigu ration. The f actor y defa ult se tting s are c ompat ible wi th the m ajor ity of insta llatio ns, and it is ad visa ble to keep the de fault settin gs as se t at the facto ry un less it i[...]

262 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E the disc arding state t o the f orwarding s tate. For IEEE 802.1 w operat ion th is is th e time that a desi gnated por t on t he bridge spends i n the learning state while mo ving from the di sable d state t o the for wardin g state whe n both o perPoin tT oPointMAC and operEdg ePort a [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 263 / NOT E In this example, only th e default STP valu es are used. The bridge with the l owest b ridge ID ( bridge A) was elec ted th e root bri dge, an d the port s were selecte d to give a high po rt cost b etween b ridges B an d C. A B C Port 1 Port 1 Port 1 Port 1 Port 1 Port 1 Port 2 Po[...]

264 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Note also that the example network topology i s int ended to pr ovide redu ndancy t o protect the network ag ainst a link or port fai lure, not a switch f ailure o r remova l. For exampl e, a fa ilure of bridge A woul d isolat e LAN 1 from con necting t o LAN 2 or LAN 3. Discarding st at[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 265 The f ollow ing i llust ration shows the ac tions that occ ur wh en a p ort is i n the di scard ing st ate. Learnin g st ate A po rt in th e lear ning sta te pre pare s to part icipat e in fr ame fo rward ing. T he por t enters the le arnin g state fr om the discardi ng state. A port wil l[...]

266 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Forwarding st ate A port in t he for wardin g state f orwards pa ckets. The port enters t he forw arding st ate f rom the lear ning s tate w hen th e forw ard de lay tim er exp ires. A port in t he for wardin g state do es the following : • Forwards pa ckets received from th e networ k[...]

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268 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E Disab led st ate A port in t he dis abled sta te doe s not pa rticip ate in frame f orward ing or STP . A po rt in the disab led state is virtu ally non-o perat ional. Note t hat this STP p ort st ate shou ld not be confused wit h the por t’ s administr ative st ate. A disable d port d[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 269 T roub lesho oti ng STP This sect ion de scribes h ow to tr oubleshoot the STP . S p annin g T ree Protoc ol Fail ure A failur e in th e Spanning T ree Alg orithm generall y resul ts in a b ridgi ng loop. This is ca used by a port tha t should be in th e disca rding st ate but i s inst ead[...]

270 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E In the prec eding ex ample, por t 1 on brid ge B is configu red as a f ull-dupl ex port a nd port 1 on bri dge A is eith er conf igure d as a half -duplex p ort or is le ft in aut o-negoti ation mode. Because port 1 on bridge B is con figur ed as a full- duplex port, it does not test for[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 271 In this example, port 2 on br idge B c an receiv e but no t transmi t packe ts. Port 2 on bri dge C shou ld be in the disca rding sta te, but si nce it ca n no lon ger recei ve BPDUs fr om port 2 on bridge B, it will change to the fo rwardi ng state. If the fa ilur e exis ts at boot time, [...]

272 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E problem, if suf ficient time is a vaila ble. Connect ivit y will be resto red immediat ely afte r dis abling a data loop . A voiding ne twork problems T o hel p your net work oper ate more ef ficiently , you can avoid or minimize ne twork probl ems, as describe d in this secti on. • Kn[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 273 This is a common network d esign. Through tru nks, bri dges C and D ha ve red undant li nks to backbone bri dges A and B. T runks, by default, carry all the VLAN traf fic from VLAN 1 and VLAN 2. Therefo re, bri dge C is not only r eceiving traf fic for VLAN 1, but also un necess ary broadc[...]

274 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E In this example, the VLAN defin itions ar e extende d to br idges A and B. This gi ves only a s ingle blocked po rt per VLAN and enable s the remov al of a ll redund ant li nks by remov ing bri dge A or B from the ne twork. A B C D Blocked Blocked VLAN 1 VLAN 1 VLAN 1 VLAN 1 VLAN 1 VLAN [...]

275 Appendix G Gett ing Help an d T echnica l Assist ance This appen dix cont ains inf ormati on about whe re to g o for a dditiona l info rmatio n on Intel products, what to do i f you expe rienc e a proble m with your server p latform, a nd whom to c all for service i f it is ne cessa ry . Before you call Before you call, make sur e that you have[...]

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277 Appendix H Not ices Safety and regulatory informati on / NOT E These servi ce proce dures are des igned to he lp you isolat e proble ms. They are writ ten with the assumptio n that you have mo del-spec ific trainin g on all co mpute rs, or tha t you a re famili ar with the c omputer s, func tions, termin ology , and service infor mation provid [...]

278 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E General Safety Follow these rul es to e nsure genera l safety : • Observe goo d housek eeping in the ar ea of t he machines during and after mainte nance. • Do not pe rform any a ction tha t caus es hazard s to t he customer , or that makes the e quipment unsafe. • Place re moved c[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 279 Handling elec trosta tic discha rge-sens itive devices Any computer part contain ing t ransist ors or integr ated c ircuits (IC) should be consi dered se nsiti ve to electr ostatic discha rge (ESD). ESD da mage can o ccur whe n there i s a dif fer ence i n char ge bet ween objects . Protec[...]

280 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E • Do not r emove the co vers. Re moving th e covers of the las er prod uct cou ld resul t in exposure t o haza rdous l aser rad iati on. There ar e no ser vicea ble part s insi de the dev ice. • Use of c ontrols or adj ustment s or perf ormance o f procedur es oth er than t hose sp e[...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 281 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) Electromagnetic compatibility notice (USA ) This equi pment has bee n tested and foun d to comply wi th the li mits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Par t 15 of the FCC rules . These limits ar e desi gned to pr ovide r easonable prote ction agai[...]

282 Intel® Bl ade Server Et hernet S witch Modu le IXM5 414E English tr anslat ion of the notice above: T his is a Cl ass A pr oduct base d on the stand ard of the V oluntary Control Council f or Int erferenc e by Infor mation T echnol ogy Equi pment (VCCI). I f this equipment i s used in a do mestic envi ronment , radio di sturb ance may ari se. [...]

Intel® Blade Serve r Etherne t Switch Module IXM 5414E 283 English tr anslat ion of the pr evious notice: Device User ’ s Information Class A devi ce This d evice comp lies with R RL EMC and is op erated in com mercial enviro nment so that d istribu tors or users pay atte ntio n to th is poi nt. If th e produ ct is so ld or p urchased impro perl[...]

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