Brocade Communications Systems 5600 Quick Start Manual
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Page 1: Quick Start Guide
53-1003725-03 14 September 2015 Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide Supporting Brocade 5600 vRouter 3.5R6... - Page 2 United States government. The authors and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. assume no liability or responsibility to any person or entity with respect to the accuracy of this document or any loss, cost, liability, or damages arising from the information contained herein or the computer programs that accompany it.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Command completion................. 23 Viewing long output (“more”)...............24 Showing support information...............24 Web GUI......................25 Enabling access to the web GUI............25 Logging in to the web GUI..............26 Basic navigation in the web GUI............27 Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... - Page 4 Configuring access to a DNS server..........42 Saving the configuration..............42 Scenario: Internet Gateway................42 Overview................... 43 Configuring interfaces............... 44 Enabling SSH access................44 Configuring the DHCP server............44 Configuring NAT................45 Configuring firewall................46 Saving the system configuration............47 Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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Page 5: Preface
Identifies command names, keywords, and command options. italic text Identifies a variable. value In Fibre Channel products, a fixed value provided as input to a command option is printed in plain text, for example, --show WWN. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 6: Notes, Cautions, And Warnings
DANGER A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of these conditions or situations. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 7: Brocade Resources
OEM/Solution Provider for all of your product support needs. ® • OEM/Solution Providers are trained and certified by Brocade to support Brocade products. • Brocade provides backline support for issues that cannot be resolved by the OEM/Solution Provider. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 8: Document Feedback
• By sending your feedback to documentation@brocade.com. Provide the publication title, part number, and as much detail as possible, including the topic heading and page number if applicable, as well as your suggestions for improvement. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 9: About This Guide
About This Guide This guide gets you started using and configuring the Brocade 5600 vRouter (referred to as a virtual router, vRouter, or router in the guide). It describes how to deploy the router and introduces you to the CLI and web GUI interfaces that you can use to access, configure, and manage the router. - Page 10 About This Guide Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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Page 11: Welcome
The Brocade vRouter technical library provides full product documentation. To see what documentation is available for your release, refer to Guide to Brocade 5600 vRouter Documentation. This guide is posted with every release of Brocade vRouter software and provides a great starting point for locating the information you need. - Page 12 Additional resources Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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Page 13: Deploying The Brocade Vrouter
You can read about installing onto a hard disk or other persistent device in Installing and Upgrading Brocade 5600 vRouter on Hard Disks and Persistent Devices . Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide... -
Page 14: Install Into A Virtualized Environment Or Cloud
Brocade provides a prebuilt VMware template that can be used to create Brocade vRouter virtual machines on VMware ESX or ESXi. Brocade also provides an ISO that can be installed on VMware ESX or ESXi. You can read about installing onto VMware in Installing and Upgrading Brocade 5600 vRouter on VMware. XenServer Citrix XenServer is a server virtualization platform. -
Page 15: Redhat Kvm
Brocade provides a prebuilt system image that runs on the KVM on RHEL. You can read about installing onto RedHat KVM in Installing and Upgrading Brocade 5600 vRouter on Linux KVM. Amazon machine image Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing service for Amazon. - Page 16 Amazon machine image Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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Page 17: Creating And Using Livecd
Insert the LiveCD disk into the CD drive of the system on which you want to run it. If your system is not already configured to boot from a CD or DVD, if one is present, you must configure it to boot from LiveCD. To specify the boot device: Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 18: Testing The System
In the Brocade vRouter, a dataplane interface is an abstraction that represents the underlying physical or virtual Ethernet interface of the systems. The terms Ethernet interface and dataplane interface are synonymous in this guide. To test system connectivity: Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... - Page 19 192.168.1.81 If the Brocade vRouter can be reached, you see replies from it in response to the pings. If so, your system is installed and can be accessed on your network. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
- Page 20 Verifying connectivity Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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Page 21: Cli And Web Gui
With the Brocade vRouter, it is also possible to remotely execute commands by using the Brocade vRouter Remote Access API. For more information about this API, refer to Brocade 5600 vRouter Remote Access API Reference Guide. -
Page 22: Cli Help
Show multicast path in ASCII graphic format ping Send IPv4 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request poweroff Poweroff the system reboot Reboot the system release Release specified variable rename Rename an object Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 23: Command Completion
In this case, help strings for the possible completions are displayed. vyatta@vyatta:~$ s<Tab> Possible completions: save Save configuration to a file Set the value of a parameter or create a new element show Show the configuration (default values may be suppressed) vyatta@vyatta:~$ s Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 24: Viewing Long Output ("More")
[edit] vyatta@vyatta# Showing support information If you have to report a bug or request support, you need to supply version information for your software. You can supply this information in operational mode. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 25: Web Gui
Enter the show version command to display version information. vyatta@vyatta:~$ show version Version: 3.2R1 Description: Brocade Vyatta vRouter 5600 3.2 R1 Copyright: 2006-2014 Vyatta, a Brocade Company. Built on: Sun Apr 27 22:16:24 UTC 2014 System type: Intel 64bit... -
Page 26: Logging In To The Web Gui
User name: vyatta Password: vyatta Passwords are independent of the means of access: the CLI and the GUI use the same login credentials. After you have logged in, the web GUI opens to its dashboard. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 27: Basic Navigation In The Web Gui
The system time is a hyperlink. You can click the link to quickly navigate to the Configuration tab, where you can change the system time. Dashboard The Content area of the Dashboard displays operational status and configuration for key areas of the system. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... - Page 28 If the column can be sorted, then clicking this icon opens menu options to sort the column in ascending or descending order. (If the column cannot be sorted, this menu is grayed out.) Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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Page 29: Statistics
The Configuration screen allows you to configure system components. The configuration options available on this screen are the same as the configuration options available in the Vyatta CLI. To learn about these options, refer to the Brocade vRouter documentation. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... - Page 30 • Bold text in the hierarchy: Indicates that the node is currently configured on the system. • Plain text in the hierarchy: Indicates that the node is not currently configured in the system but is available for configuration. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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Page 31: Operation
• Pause: Pauses the output for commands that generate output. The Operation screen also has a toolbar. The following button is available within the toolbar: • Hide Tips or Show Tips: Toggles between showing and hiding help tips within the Content area. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... - Page 32 Operation Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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Page 33: Quick Start Configuration Scenarios
Adding and modifying configuration Add new configuration by creating a configuration node with the set command in configuration mode. Modify existing configuration also by using the set command in configuration mode. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 34: Deleting Configuration
Deleting configuration You delete configuration statements, or complete configuration nodes by using the delete command. Delete configuration Delete a configuration node. vyatta@vyatta# delete interfaces dataplane dp0p1p1 address 192.0.2.21/24 [edit] vyatta@vyatta# Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 35: Committing Configuration Changes
Discarding configuration changes Instead of deleting many specific changes, you can abandon all changes made within a configuration session by using the discard command or by using the exit command with the discard option. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 36: Saving Configuration
On restart, the configuration is loaded from the config.boot file. Save configuration to the default configuration file Save the configuration to the config.boot file in the default directory by entering save in configuration mode. vyatta@vyatta# save Done [edit] vyatta@vyatta# Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 37: Loading A Configuration
Saving configuration to '/config/config.boot'... Done [edit] vyatta@vyatta# At this point, the configurations in the testconfig and config.boot files are the same. The currently active configuration is the same as what is loaded when the system restarts. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 38: Scenario: Basic System Configuration
Internet and the LAN hosts itself. Providing the hosts with Internet connectivity is covered in the next Internet gateway scenario. Figure 1 shows a network diagram of a basic system configuration. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 39: Logging In
Password: Welcome to Vyatta Version: 3.2R1 Description: Brocade Vyatta vRouter 5600 3.2 R1 Copyright: 2006-2014 Vyatta, a Brocade Company. vyatta@vyatta:~$ Entering configuration mode When you log in, you are in operational mode. To configure the system, you must enter configuration mode. -
Page 40: Setting The Host Name
[edit] vyatta@R1# Changing the password The Brocade vRouter has one predefined user account: user ID: vyatta password: vyatta To secure your system, you should change the password for this user account. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 41: Configuring Interfaces
Configuring a default route To reach the default gateway, configure a default route with the next-hop address of 192.0.2.99. vyatta@R1# set protocols static route 0.0.0.0/0 next-hop 192.0.2.99 [edit] vyatta@R1# commit [edit] vyatta@R1# Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 42: Configuring Access To A Dns Server
• DHCP capability for providing dynamic IP addresses to internal devices • NAT capability for translating multiple internal addresses to a single external address • Firewall capability for preventing system access from the Internet Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 43: Overview
FIGURE 2 Scenario: internet gateway configuration For the examples shown in this scenario, it is assumed that you have completed the configuration shown in the basic scenario (see Scenario: Basic System Configuration on page 38). Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 44: Configuring Interfaces
DHCP provides dynamic IP addresses to hosts on a specified subnet. In the Internet gateway scenario, the DHCP server provides addresses to hosts on the office LAN, which is attached to the dp0p1p2 interface. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 45: Configuring Nat
10 translation address masquerade [edit] vyatta@R1# commit [edit] vyatta@R1# Here is this configuration. vyatta@R1# show nat source rule 10 { outbound-interface dp0p1p1 source { address 192.168.1.0/24 translation { Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 46: Configuring Firewall
Apply the rule set to an interface The following example shows how to apply the FROM_INTERNET rule as in on the dp0p1p1 Internet- facing interface. vyatta@R1# set interfaces dataplane dp0p1p1 firewall in FROM_INTERNET [edit] vyatta@R1# commit [edit] vyatta@R1# Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... -
Page 47: Saving The System Configuration
For the running configuration to persist after a system restart, it must be saved. Save the system configuration Save the system configuration by using the save command. vyatta@R1# save [edit] vyatta@R1# This step completes the configuration of a basic Internet gateway. Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03... - Page 48 Saving the system configuration Brocade 5600 vRouter Quick Start Guide 53-1003725-03...
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