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    Copyright Information No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUS- T e[...]

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    English Centralized Network Management GigaX Management Software User ’ s Manual Product Name: CNM Software Manual Revision: 1 E1604 Release Date: May 2004[...]

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    2 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 1 Introduction ........................................................................... 1-3 1.1 GigaX 1024P Features .................................................... 1-3 1.2 Using this Document ........................................................ 1-5 1.3 ASUS contact inform[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 3 English 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the ASUS GigaX 1024P . Y ou can now manage your LAN (Local Area Network) through a friendly and powerful user interface, the ASUS CNM. The ASUS CNM runs on Windows OS. Please refer to the CNM installation guide for CM installation det[...]

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    4 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 1.2 Using this Document 1.2.1 Notational conventions • Acronyms are defined the first time they appear in text and in the glossary . • For brevity , the GigaX switch is referred to as the switch. • The terms LAN and network are used interchangeably to refer to a group of E[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 5 English ASUST eK COMPUTER INC. (Asia-Pacific) Web Site Address: www .asus.com.tw General Email: info@asus.com.tw General T elephone: +886-2-2894-3447 General Fax: +886-2-2894-7798 T echnical Support Networking (T el): +886-2-2890-7902 (English) MB/Others (T el): +886-2-2890-7121 (English) Not[...]

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    6 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 2 Getting to Know the GigaX 1024P 2.1 Parts List In addition to this document, the switch should come with the following: • GigaX 1024P managed switch • AC Power cord • Rack installation kit (2 brackets with 6 screws (M3 x 6L)) • Installation CD-ROM • Quick installation guid[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 7 English Label Function POWER Connects to the supplied power cord 2.2 Front Panel The front panel contains LED indicators that show the status of the unit. 2.3 Rear Panel The rear panel contains the ports for the unit’s power connections. Label Color Light Function POWER Green On The switch [...]

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    8 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 2.4 T echnical Specifications Physical Dimensions: 43.5mm(H) X 444 mm(W) X 200mm(D) Environmental Ranges: Operating temperature: -10ºC to 50ºC (14ºF to 122ºF) Storage temperature: -40ºC to 70ºC (-40ºF to 158ºF) Operating humidity: 15% to 90% Storage humidity: 00% to 95% Power:[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 9 English 3 Quick Start Guide This Quick Start Guide provides basic instructions to set up the GigaX environment. • Part 1 shows you how to install the GigaX on a flat surface or in a rack. • Part 2 provides instructions to set up the hardware. • Part 3 shows you how to configure basic se[...]

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    10 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 3.2 Part 2 —Start the Switch In Part 2, this guide will show you how to connect the switch to a power outlet, to your computer (with CNM installed), and to the network. 3.2.1 Step 1. Connect to the PC with CNM Installed The switch can be managed through the ASUS CNM software that i[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 11 English 3.2.3 Step 3. Attach the power cord. 1. Plug the female end of the AC power cord to the POWER receptacle on the back of the switch. 2. Check the front LED indicators with the table 3.1. If the LEDs illuminate as expected, the switch hardware is working properly . 3. Plug the male end[...]

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    12 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English Figure 3.2. CNM Outlook 3.3 Management from CNM In Part 3, start the CNM program and manage the switch to meet your network requirements. Before starting CNM, make sure that your manage station is attached to the same network as the switch is. Otherwise, CNM will not be able to disco[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 13 English Figure 3.3. Available Switches 3. Select the proper NIC at the same network with the switch, then click on the Discovery icon in the tool bar . After the discovery is done, the left frame of the window will show the MAC addresses of the switches discovered by the CNM as Figure 3.3. 4[...]

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    14 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 3.3.2 Password Recovery The switch is protected by a password. The password is required to make CNM able to manage the switch. Once the password is lost, you need to reset the password back to factory default password, which is 0x2379 . The password is four digit long, could be chang[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 15 English Figure 4.1. CNM window 4 Management Functions ASUS provide a Centralized Network Management (CNM) software to allow users manage the switch in your network. The program is designed to work best with Microsoft Windows operation system. 4.1 Start CNM Program 1. Install CNM in a compute[...]

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    16 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English Figure 4.2. T op frame T able 4.1. Description of Port Color Figure 4.3. A T opology Frame 4.2 Functional Layout The CNM window consists of three separate frames. The top frame has switch logo and front panel as shown in Figure4.2. This frame remains on the top of the browser window [...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 17 English Click on the NIC, it shows the topology of the switches in the network. If multiple switches are cascaded, the tree view will show the relationship of those switches as Figure 4.4. Figure 4.4. T ree view of the network topology The right frame displays the specified switch configurat[...]

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    18 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English Figure 4.5. T opology 4.3.1 T opology T opology is to control the actions of the topology frame. A couple of things you can do to the topology frame are listed as following: 3. Discovery : discover all the 1024Ps in all the networks that your CNM station is connecting to. The discove[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 19 English Figure 4.6. Add Switch Figure 4.7. Remove Switch 6. Remove Switch : you can remove any switch in the topology list manually through this function. It pops out a switch list and check those switches you want to remove. Please refer to Figure 4.7 for the switch list window . 5. Add Swi[...]

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    20 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 4.3.2 Setup Figure 4.8. Setup CNM polls the switch status periodically , the polling interval can be adjusted. 1. Auto Update Time Interval : as Figure 4.9, a proper value can be set. The auto update time interval is used to poll the switch statistics and link status on the top of th[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 21 English Figure 4.10. Switch Relationship 4.4 Switch T opology The switch topology frame is on the left part of the CNM window . It shows the discovered switches and the relationship among them. Each presents a NIC interface. The interface name and MAC address is shown after the. The switch t[...]

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    22 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 4.4.2 Switch Add and Removal Discovery action will create the topology tree by all the discovered switches. The default password will be used in the discovery process. Sometimes you may have a switch with another password that is different from the default one. In this case, the swit[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 23 English Once a switch is added to the topology tree, you can find it in the corresponding place. Y ou have to left click the switch symbol to switch the current status/configuration window from other switch to this switch. If the communication is good, you can see the linking status window o[...]

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    24 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 4.5 Switch Setup Before using the configuration windows, it is better to know following buttons or icons because they are used throughout the setup. The following table describes the function for each button or icon. T able 4.1 2. Description of Commonly Used Buttons and Icons Button[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 25 English Figure 4.13. Reboot 4.6 System There are reboot, link status and change password under the system menu. 4.6.1 Reboot The 1024P provides hardware and software reset as shown in figure 4.13. Hardware reset is to reset the system at a initial state like the process of power on hardware [...]

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    26 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 4.6.2 Link Status Link status table shows the port information including speed, duplex mode and flow control. Click on the Reload button will get the update information. Figure 4.14 shows the status table. Figure 4.14. Link Status[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 27 English 4.6.3 Change Password A valid password consists of 4 digits, from 0 to 9, and a to f. The authenticator does not check upper case or lower case. For example, password “12ab” is treated as “12AB”. Once the password gets changed, CNM will use the password to retrieve the inform[...]

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    28 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 4.6.4 Load Y ou can load configuration from the switch or the local file as shown in Figure 4.15. This action will update the current configuration in the CNM. If you want to keep the current configuration, please refer to section 4.6.5. Figure 4.15. Load[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 29 English 4.6.5 Save Save all the configurations to a local file for future reference. Once you create a configuration file in CNM, you can use it to apply to the other switches to save your time. It is also a backup file for configuration. It is recommended to have a good file name to identif[...]

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    30 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 4.6.6 Apply and Save It applies all the current settings in CNM to the switch and save them in the switch permanently . It is recommended to back up the existed switch configurations before applying a new configuration to the switch. Figure 4.17. Apply Configuration[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 31 English 4.7 Configuration The Configuration menu provides the configuration for all the functions that the switch can supports, like physical interface, link aggregation, bandwidth control, traffic control, VLAN, IGMP snooping and QoS. T o keep all the new configurations and save the bandwid[...]

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    32 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 1. Enable or disable a port 2. Speed and duplex mode. Select 1000 full-duplex on the Fast Ethernet ports (from 1 to 24) will set the ports to 100 full-duplex mode. 3. Flow control - Back pressure flow control is used in half and full duplex modes to prevent packet loss. A software re[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 33 English Link aggregation creates new virtual links with more bandwidth. For example, port 1 and 2 can work together as one link to another device. The new virtual link has 200Mbps bandwidth. The switch provides 8 groups of link aggregations shown on the top of figure 4.19. Click on the Reloa[...]

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    34 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 4.7.4 T raffic Control T raffic control is to set the following items 1. Broadcast storm filtering control: if enabled, each port start to drop broadcast packets after a continuous received broadcast packets count up to 64. It will be back to normal if no more broadcast packet is rec[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 35 English Figure 4.21. VLAN All VLAN behavior will be influenced by VLAN control option. Click Control Option and a window will pop out as Figure 4.22. Enable or disable these options carefully , these options are global setting for VLAN Figure 4.22. VLAN Control Options[...]

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    36 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English Figure 4.23. IGMP Snoop 7. VLAN function: enable or disable the VLAN function. 8. Unicast packet inter -VLAN leaky: to enable the packet to be forwarded to a destination port (L2 table hit) at dif ferent VLAN. 9. ARP broadcast packet inter-VLAN leaky: to enable ARP frame to broadcast[...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 37 English 4.7.7 QoS Setup The system support 2 level priority queues. The queue service rate is based on the packet-based Weighted Round Robin algorithm. The ratio can be set as 4:1, 8:1, 16:1, or strictly high priority first. The port-based priority is to decide the packet priority by the rec[...]

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    38 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English Figure 4.25. Port T raffic 4.8 Statistics Statistics offer Port T raffic, T raffic History and Comparison charts. The switch has 3 counters for 8 kinds of statistics. So you cannot see all the statistics at the same time. That is, the old statistics data will be gone if you start to [...]

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    GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual 39 English 4.8.2 T raffic History Select the statistics item, ports and colors you want to see in the chart, then press the Draw T raffic Chart button to start the drawing. The chart will be auto updated in the time interval you set in Setup menu. Refer to 4.3.2 for time interval setup. Figure [...]

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    40 GigaX Centralized Network Management User ’ s Manual English 4.8.3 Comparison Select the statistics item to do comparison for port 1 to 26. Press the Draw T raffic Chart button to start the drawing. The chart will be auto updated in the time interval you set in Setup menu. Figure 4.27. Port Comparison[...]