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Avaya P550R Installation Manual

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Avaya
P550R
, P580, P880,
and P882
MultiService Switch
Installation Guide
Version v5.3
May, 2002

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  • Page 1 Avaya  P550R , P580, P880, and P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide Version v5.3 May, 2002...
  • Page 2 Avaya P550, P550R, P580, P880, & P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide - Version 5.3 © Copyright Avaya Inc., 2002 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Produced in USA, May, 2002 The products, specifications, and other technical information regarding the products contained in this document are subject to change without notice. All information in this document is...

  • Page 4: Preface

    Chapter 2, “Initial Configuration” - Explains how to perform the initial configuration of your switch, create users, configure ports, and how to change from Avaya 1 mode to Avaya 2 mode and vise-versa. Chapter 3, Specifications - Provides the specifications for the switch and the various switch devices.

  • Page 5: Online Documentation

    Online Documentation Avaya maintains copies of all technical documentation on the corporate web server. To access online documentation, including HTML and PDF documents, use Netscape Navigator version 4.x or above or Internet Explorer Version 5.3 or above and type the URL: http://support.avaya.com/...

  • Page 6: Audience

    P580/P880/P882 switch configuration and operation procedures. Command Reference Guide for the Avaya P550R/P880/P882 Multiservice Switch, v5.3 - Provides an explanation of the Command Line Interface (CLI) commands taht you can use on the Avaya P550/ P550R/P580/P880/P882 switch. Reference Documents The following documents supply related background information: Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume I —...

  • Page 7: Technical Support

    Technical Support. To contact Avaya’s technical support: From the United States: ■ 1-800-237-0016 From North America: ■ 1-800-242-2121 Outside North America: ■ Contact your distributor Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...

  • Page 8: Table Of Contents

    Logging in to the Web Agent..........3-7 Setting Up User Accounts ............ 3-8 Changing Modes............... 3-10 Changing from Fabric 1 Mode to Fabric 2 Mode....3-11 Changing from Fabric 2 Mode to Fabric 1 Mode....3-11 Avaya P550/P580/P880/P882 Installation Guide, v5.3...
  • Page 9 Chapter 3 — Specifications 4-1 Compliance Information ............. 4-1 FCC Compliance..............4-1 Laser Safety Information ............4-2 Operating/Physical ..............4-2 Power ................... 4-2 Avaya P550/P580/P880/P882 Installation Guide, v5.3...

  • Page 10: Chapter 1 - Unpacking And Installing

    ■ — Power supply (installed in the switch) — Fan tray — Supervisor module — Blank faceplates I/O modules (shipped separately) ■ Rack mount kit (rack installation) ■ Rubber feet (table top installation) ■ Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide,...

  • Page 11: Selecting A Location

    80 kg (182 lb) in a cantilevered application (rails should not deflect or distort). A fully-loaded P550R/P580 switch weighs 60 kg (130 lbs). A fully loaded P880/P882 switch weighs 80 kg (182 lbs). At least 2 inches (5.2 cm) on either side of the system, and ■...

  • Page 12: Installing The Switch

    Installing the Modules Installing the Cables Ensuring that You Have Enough Power Available Connecting the Power Supplies Powering On the System * Note: The Avaya P550R switch requires 16MB RAM for proper functioning. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...

  • Page 13: Installing The Chassis

    Phillips-head screwdriver. A fully-loaded P550R/P580 switch weighs 60 kg (130 lbs). A fully WARNING loaded P880/P882 switch weighs 80 kg (182 lbs).
  • Page 14 5. Align the mounting holes on the rack mounting flange mounting ears (identified by a screw icon) to the mounting holes on the rack and secure the chassis to the mounting shelf and rack rails (see Figure 1-3). Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...
  • Page 15 System on a Table Top To avoid injury, Avaya recommends that two people are required to lift the switch onto a table top. A fully-loaded P550R/P580 switch weighs 60 kg (130 lbs). A fully loaded P880/P882 switch weighs 80 kg (182 lbs).

  • Page 16: Installing The Cable Management Bracket

    Modules — Power supply and fan assemblies Installing the Cable Management Bracket The Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 switch is shipped with a cable management bracket. The bracket is installed on the right side of the chassis. To install the Cable management bracket: 1.

  • Page 17: Installing The Modules

    Leave the module wrapped in its antistatic bag. * Note: Refer to Preventing Electrostatic Discharge earlier in this chapter before removing the module from the antistatic bag. 2. Carefully remove the module from the antistatic bag. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...
  • Page 18 Figure 1-6. Inserting the Modules Ejector 4. Insert the module into the chassis (Figure 1-6). 5. Push on the center of the module until it is fully seated into the backplane. 6. Close the ejector tabs. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...

  • Page 19: Auto Negotiation

    The symptom is loss of connectivity. You can address this problem by either disabling auto-negotiation and manually configuring the speed and duplex of the mirror port and network card, or using a patch cable longer than 5 meters. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3 1-10...

  • Page 20: Installing The Cables

    Unpacking and Installing Installing the Cables The following cable types are used with the P550R/P580/P880/P882 switches: Fiber cables with SC-type connectors ■ Straight-through Category 5 cables with male RJ-45 ■ connectors (end station/NIC (network interface card) card connections). All I/O ports are crossed over internally so you...
  • Page 21 Table 1-2. Pinouts for RS-232 DB-9 Female Console Port DCE Pin # Signal Description DCD (output) RX (input) TX (output) DTR (input) SGD (ground) DSR (output) RTS (input) CTS (output) RI (not used) Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3 1-12...
  • Page 22 Avaya recommends you heed the following rules for connecting the Annex Cat 5 cable. When connecting an Annex box to the Avaya P550/P550R/ ■ P580/P880/P882 Multiservice switch supervisor module, use an adapter with the pin assignments listed in...

  • Page 23: Cable Distances

    Chapter 1 Recommended Avaya recommends the following cable distance guidelines, which Cable Distances are based on IEEE 802.3z standard. * Note: Tables 1-2 through 1-4 describe the maximum link distances for the Gigabit, 100Mb, and 10/100 Mb links. When building half-duplex networks using Ethernet...

  • Page 24: Ensuring That You Have Enough Power Available

    48-Port 10/100 Ethernet Module with - 70 W TELCO Conceders 4-Port GBIC Module - 45W 8-Port GBIC Module - 75W * Note: See the instruction sheet included with the power supply for power supply installation instructions. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3 1-15...

  • Page 25: Connecting The Power Supplies

    LEDs: * Note: Refer to the section "Interpreting Front Panel LED Displays" in Chapter 17, Monitoring the Avaya Switch, in the Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch User Guide for more detailed information about the front panel LEDs.
  • Page 26 Port Solid green, Port enabled and sending and Modules with yellow receiving traffic Traffic indicated flash by yellow flashes. Flashing Port disabled with link up. green Flashing Hardware failure. yellow No link. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3 1-17...

  • Page 27: Downloading The Software Code

    1. Connect the Ethernet port on the supervisor module in slot 1 to the network. * Note: Use an Ethernet cable in the 10Base-T port on the supervisor module front panel (Figure 1-8). Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3 1-18...
  • Page 28 4. Type enable (en) to enter Privileged mode (for more information on modes, see the Command Reference Guide for the Avaya P550R/P580/P880/ and P882 Multiservice Switch, v5.3. 5. Type configure to enter configure mode. 6. Type setup at the configure mode prompt. You can configure the Ethernet serial port by responding to the displayed prompts.

  • Page 29: Downloading The Software

    PCMCIA card. PCMCIA PCMCIA operations can only be carried out on the CLI. ■ Only PCMCIA memory cards purchased from Avaya Inc. are ■ supported in the PCMCIA slot of the M8000R-SUP supervisor module. 16-MB PCMCIA cards support only one image of the switch ■...
  • Page 30 <filename1> to nvram on the switch <filename2>: <configure># copy pcmcia <filename1> <filename2> * Note: Refer to the Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 Multiservice Switch CLI Reference Guide, Chapter 26, "System" for a detailed explanation of these and other PCMCIA commands.
  • Page 31 3. Ping the internal IP network address of the standby CPU in slot 2 from the CLI. > ping 10.2.2.2 * Note: The Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 switches use the 10.2.2.0 subnet as the internal network for CPU redundancy. If you are using this subnet in...

  • Page 32: Chapter 2 - Initial Configuration

    Refer to Table 2-1 for the required terminal settings to communicate with the switch. Table 2-1. Terminal Settings Baud Rate Stop Bits Data Bits Flow Parity Control 9,600 Xon/Xoff None Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...

  • Page 33: Initial Configuration Of The Supervisor Module

    Booting the operational system, please wait ..Initializing the file subsystem ... done Initializing the event subsystem ... done Initializing the agent subsystem ... done Initializing the platform ... done Initializing the switch subsystem ... done Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...
  • Page 34 Boot process complete - system is now operational. Creating Startup Config file [/nvram/ startup.txt] ... done Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved by Avaya Inc. This software is furnished under a license and may be used in accordance with the terms of such license and with the inclusion of the above copyright notice.
  • Page 35 7. Enter configure. This changes the command mode to configure mode so that you can use the setup command. The prompt redisplays as follows: cajun (configure)# 8. Enter setup. This initiates a series of queries. Answer each query as follows: Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...
  • Page 36 You can now connect to the switch using the front-panel out-of-band 10Base-T connection. This allows you to log in using either the embedded web agent or the EMS. See the Installation and Operation guides for instruction on establishing additional IP network connections. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...
  • Page 37 After you have connected the out-of-band 10Base-T cable to the appropriate port on the supervisor front panel, log in to the switch using a Web browser, as described in Logging in to the Web Agent. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...

  • Page 38: Logging In To The Web Agent

    For Layer 3, this location can be that of any of the router interfaces. 3. Press Enter. The login window opens (Figure 2-3): Figure 2-3. Login Window 4. Select Login. The Username and Password dialog box opens (Figure 2-4): Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...

  • Page 39: Setting Up User Accounts

    1. Log in to the switch from your Web browser (refer to the "Logging in to the Web Agent" earlier in this chapter). 2. Select User Logins from the System/Administration group on the web agent window. The User Account Management dialog box opens (Figure 2-5) Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...
  • Page 40 4. Enter a user name for the account in the User Name field. 5. Enter a password for the account In the Password field. 6. Re-enter the same password in the Re-enter Password field. Avaya P550R/P580/P880/P882 MultiService Switch Installation Guide, v5.3...

  • Page 41: Changing Modes

    8. Click APPLY save your changes, or CANCEL to restore previous settings. Changing Modes This section explains how to change an Avaya P580/P882 switch from Fabric 1 mode to Fabric 2 mode and vise-versa. * Note: You can use the following procedures to change Fabric...

  • Page 42: Changing From Fabric 1 Mode To Fabric 2 Mode

    Initial Configuration Changing from Fabric 1 Mode to Fabric 2 Mode To change your Avaya P580/P882 Multiservice switch from Fabric 1 mode to Fabric II mode: 1. Telnet to the switch. 2. Type enable (en) at the Cajun switch prompt to enter enable mode.
  • Page 43 Chapter 2 Cajun (configure)# set Fabric_mode 2 This will reboot the Avaya P580/P882 Multiservice switch. The switch is in Fabric 1 mode after it reboots. * Note: With redundant supervisor modules, each supervisor module must be changed individually. Supervisor modules must run in the same fabric mode to function properly.

  • Page 44: Compliance Information

    Power Specifications ■ Compliance Information Please read the following compliance information prior to installing your Avaya 80 Series 24-Port 100 Base-FX Ethernet Module with SC-APC Connectors. FCC Compliance This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 5.

  • Page 45: Laser Safety Information

    Storage Temperature (Sea Level): -20° to 80° C Relative Humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing Physical Dimensions: 17.5" W x 18" D x 10.5" H Weight: Fully loaded P550R/P580 - 60 kg (130 lbs) Fully loaded P880/P882 - 80 kg (182 lbs) Power...
  • Page 46 4-Port Copper Gigabit Module - 50 W 8-Port Copper Gigabit Module - 65 W 48-Port 10/100 Ethernet Module with - 70 W TELCO Conceders 4-Port GBIC Module - 45W 8-Port GBIC Module - 75W Avaya P550R//P580/P880/P882 MultiServiceSwitch Installation Guide, Beta Version 5.3...
  • Page 47 Avaya P550R//P580/P880/P882 MultiServiceSwitch Installation Guide, Beta Version 5.3...

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