Inband Management - Brocade Communications Systems SN3000B Administrator's Manual

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Inband Management

Inband Management

Inband Management is designed to allow the management of the switch through GigE ports. This
allows a management station located on the WAN side of the FCIP platform to communicate with
the control processor for management tasks, such as launching Web Tools, SNMP polling, SNMP
traps, trouble shooting, and configuration. To provide this communication, new interfaces have
been added to the control processor that have an external IP address, allowing IP connectivity
through the port processor to the control processor.
The Inband Management interface is protocol independent, so any traffic destined for these
Inband Management interfaces is passed through the distribution point to the control processor. It
is then handled on the control processor, according to the rules set forth for the normal
management interface and following any security rules that may be in place on the control
processor.
To provide redundancy, there is one inband management interface per GigE port. This allows the
management station on the WAN side of the network to have multiple addresses with which to
reach that switch, and allow redundancy in the event one of the GigE ports becomes unreachable
for any reason.
Communication is handled through external addresses that are configured independently for each
Inband Management interface. The Inband Management interfaces share the routing table on the
control processor. This is separate from the routing table for each GigE port that exists. Because of
this there are certain limits to the addresses that are allowed, and the routes that are allowed for
the Inband Management interfaces and route entries.
Inband Management is supported on the Brocade 7800 and Brocade FX8-24. Only one IP interface
entry can be configured per GigE port.
To configure Inband Management, perform the following steps.
1. Select Port Admin > GigE Ports > Inband IP Interface.
2. Click Add to configure a new Inband Management entry.
3. Set the IP Address Type to IPv4 .
4. Set the address options:
5. Click OK.
6. Select the Inband IP Routes tab.
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8. Set the IP Address Type to either IPv4.
9. Set the address options of the management station on the WAN side of the FCIP platform:
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IP Address
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Subnet Mask
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MTU Size
Click Add to configure a new route entry.
You can create a maximum of 32 Inband IP Route entries.
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Destination IP Address
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Subnet Mask
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Gateway IP Address
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