Management Port; Usb Host Ports - Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Hardware Installation Manual

Product Overview
Figure 13: USB Mini-Type B Port
Figure 14: USB-C Console Port
With the Cisco Windows USB device driver, you can connect and disconnect the USB cable from the console
port without affecting Windows HyperTerminal operations.
The console output always goes to both the RJ-45 and the USB console connectors, but the console input is
active on only one of the console connectors at any one time. The USB console takes precedence over the
RJ-45 console. When a cable is connected into the USB console port, the RJ-45 console port becomes inactive.
Conversely, when the USB cable is disconnected from the USB console port, the RJ-45 port becomes active.
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to configure an inactivity timeout which reactivates the RJ-45
console if the USB console has been activated and no input activity has occurred on the USB console for a
specified time.
After the USB console deactivates due to inactivity, you cannot use the CLI to reactivate it. Disconnect and
reconnect the USB cable to reactivate the USB console. For information on using the CLI to configure the
USB console interface, see the Software Configuration Guide for Catalyst 9500 Switches.

Management Port

The Ethernet management port, also referred to as the Gi0/0 or GigabitEthernet0/0 port, is a VRF (VPN
routing/forwarding) interface to which you can connect a PC. It supports TFTP image downloading, network
management, SNMP, Telnet, and SSH connections. The switches support out-of-band management through
the Mgmt-vrf. Mgmt-vrf is used to segment management traffic from the global routing table of the switch.
The Ethernet management port supports speeds upto 10/100/1000 Mbps and is set to auto-negotiate.

USB Host Ports

USB host ports lets you connect different USB devices such as flash drives to the switch. USB 2.0 port supports
Cisco USB flash drives with capacities from 128 MB to 8 GB (USB devices with port densities of 128 MB,
256 MB, 1 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB are supported). The USB 3.0 port provides support for Cisco USB flash
drives with capacities from 64 MB to 16 GB. Cisco IOS software provides standard file system access to the
flash device: read, write, erase, and copy, as well as the ability to format the flash device with a FAT file
system.
The USB host ports are located on different sides of the switches as follows:
• Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches: USB 2.0 port on the front panel and USB 3.0 port on the rear panel.
• Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series High Performance Switches: USB 3.0 port on the front panel.
• Cisco Catalyst 9500X Series Switches: USB 3.0 port on the rear panel.
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