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Installing the Sentriant NG Appliance
Connecting Cables
Connect cables to the Sentriant NG appliance as follows:
Serial port connection
●
the provided serial cable
Connect
DB-9 serial port on a workstation.
Management port
●
Connect a
appliance to an available 10/100/1000BASE-T I/O port on an Extreme Networks I/O module or
switch.
Detection/mitigation port
●
Connect two category 5 or equivalent UTP cables from detection/mitigation ports 1 and 2 on the
Sentriant NG appliance to two open 10/100/1000BASE-T I/O ports on an Extreme Networks switch.
NOTE
Only one detection/mitigation port is needed for a default configuration. Use the additional detection/mitigation ports
if more than one VLAN is configured.
Configuring the Switch
Configure the switch as follows:
1 Configure the switch port connected to detection/mitigation port 1 to be a mirror port.
2 Configure the switch port connected to detection/mitigation port 2 to be a member of the VLAN
that will be monitored for threats. This VLAN should be 802.1q tagged.
3 Configure the switch to mirror the threat detection VLAN.
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Category 5 or equivalent UTP cable
from the serial port on the of the Sentriant NG appliance to a
from the management port on the Sentriant NG
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