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24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 3 Package Contents Unpack the carton of the 24 Port SNMP Managed Switch and verify them against the checklist below. 24 Port SNMP Managed Switch Rubber Feet Rack-mounted Kit RS-232 cable...
Port SNMP Managed Switch. While Telnet management is done over the network. Once the 24 Port SNMP Managed Switch is on the network, you can use Telnet to log in and change the configuration. The automatic log-out times can be programmed and are detailed on pages 36 and 56.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 5 Hardware Description The 24 Port SNMP Managed Switch has fixed 24-port auto-sensing Ethernet RJ-45 connectors, and a chassis containing two expansion slots. The optional modules enable the switch to be used in new and legacy networks.
LED Indicators Figure 3. The LED Indicators All LED indicators are located on the front panel of the 24 Port SNMP Managed Switch and provide a real-time indication of switch and operational status. The following table details the LED states:-...
The 3-pronged power socket and the On/Off switch are located at the rear panel of the switch. The switch operates over the range 100-240V AC, 50-60Hz without adjustment. Figure 5. The Rear Panel of the 24 Port SNMP Managed Switch Diagnostic Test After the installation is completed and AC power is applied to the Switch, the system will automatically perform a diagnostic test.
Airflow around the Switch and through its vents on the rear must not be restricted. Mounting the Switch The 24 Port SNMP Managed Switch is suitable for use in an office environment where it can be rack-mounted in standard EIA 19-inch racks or standalone.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 9 Rack-mounted Installation The 24 Port SNMP Managed Switch is supplied with a rack-mounted kit and can be mounted in an EIA standard size, 19-inch rack. The Switch can be placed in a wiring closet with other equipment.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 11 Quick Start Guide If you do not need to apply VLANs, Quality of Service, adjust any settings or manage the switch via the network, then the switch can be used “straight-from-the-box” to carry network traffic.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 12 Management Using The Console Configuring the Console Interface When the connection between Switch and PC is complete, turn on the PC and run a terminal emulation program such as Hyper Terminal and configure its communication parameters to...
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 13 Main Menu Screen After login you will see the Main Menu screen below. Use the <tab> or cursor keys to step through the sub-menus. Select the required sub-menu using the <CR> or enter key.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 14 Management Setup Menu Screen Figure 9. The Management Setup Menu The management setup menu contains 6 submenus and are discussed below. Network Configuration Menu Figure 10. The Network Configuration Menu This menu displays the switch MAC address and enables the IP address of the switch to be configured to the network.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 15 8. The changes that have been made will only appear in the “New” column but not in the current column, to activate the new settings and make them current the switch will need restarting.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 16 SNMP Community Setup Menu Figure 12. The SNMP Community Menu In the SNMP Community Menu, you can create different communities and customize their access rights. Use <TAB> or cursor keys to move the highlight bar and select desired community to modify or add a new community (use space bar to toggle the access right and status values).
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 17 Management Capability Setup Menu Figure 14. The Management Capability setup Menu This menu option allows the web based management facility to be enabled or disabled. This is achieved by using the <space> bar to toggle between Enable and Disable states. It is recommended that a modern Java based Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator browser be used.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 18 Device Control Menu This is a high level menu that controls much of the configuration of the switch. Figure 16 . The Device Control menu Move the <Tab> or cursor keys to highlight the required function and the press the <CR or Return>...
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 19 The Switch Device Configuration menu options are listed below. Use the <space> bar to toggle modes, or enter time values directly:- • The Spanning Tree Protocol for the switch is enabled or disabled in this menu.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 20 Switch Port Configuration Figure 18. The Switch Port Configuration Menu This menu is used to select and then configure the required ports. The first element highlighted in the menu is the Group ID. The switch is divided into 3 groups:- •...
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 21 Switch Port Configuration – Sub-Menu In the port configuration screen (see page…) you can configure the port variables including:- • Admin. State. This control enables or disables the port. Use the <space> key to toggle the enable/disable state.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 22 Permanent Address Configuration This mode enables the switch to be configured to a high security mode where specified MAC addresses are associated with a port. These MAC addresses are programmed into the switch into static tables for use both in unicast and multicast applications.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 23 Enter the MAC address of a device you wish to set as static unicast address associated with a switch port. Use<Space Bar> to toggle the status field between Disable, Forwarding, Filter- In, and Filter-Out.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 24 Spanning Tree Protocol Configuration When switches are used in more complex enterprise environments where redundant links may be required for resilience, then the switches need to be configured with the Spanning Tree Protocol.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 25 The Spanning Tree Protocol is applied to specific ports using this menu. In this screen you can assign spanning priority and path cost to any port(s). A port with higher priority, lower path cost is less likely to be blocked if Spanning Tree Protocol detects a network loop.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 26 Select the VLAN entry to create, modify, or delete the VLAN group. Use <Space Bar> to check (join) port(s) to the VLAN group. Static VLAN Configuration This mode is used to manually specify the ports that a VLAN has in its member set. This is achieved by manually editing the filtering database as shown below.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 27 To modify the settings of the Static VLAN filtering database, select the VLAN and then apply the settings to each of the required ports. The settings are:- • ( ) – Dynamic Configuration only. The selected port is available for dynamic VLAN registration and configuration only, •...
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 28 VLAN Untagged Configuration – Port Untagged Configuration Figure 26. The Port Untag Configuration menu The switch sets all ports by default as <Untagged>. This means that VLAN tags are stripped off at the egress port.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 29 MTU/MDU Per-Port VLAN Table When the switch is used in a multi-dwelling or multi-tenanted unit, then it can be useful to put some tenants on one uplink and the remaining tenants on another uplink. This read-only table shows the port mapping automatically assigned by the switch.
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24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 30 IGMP Snooping Table By supporting IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) Snooping, the switch can forward multicast traffic intelligently. Packets are only forwarded to the ports that belong to the multicast group instead of being broadcast to all ports and possibly disrupting network performance.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 31 Trunk Group Configuration The switch supports trunk groups between switches. This scheme combines ports to become an aggregate link to increase the bandwidth available between switches using the standard IEEE802.1ad. Up to 8 ports can be assigned to a trunk and the switch supports up to 4 trunks.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 32 Port Mirroring Configuration Port mirroring is used during more complex diagnostic operations to allow network analyzer devices such as Sniffer systems to view live network traffic. This function is needed on switches as packets are normally forward only on MAC address values and therefore do not get sent to other ports.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 33 User Authentication Access to the switch is controlled by a username and password screen that is used when logging into the switch, see page 12 for details. This helps to ensure that only authorized users can view or modify the switch settings.
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24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 34 Note that the user name and password are stored as encrypted data within the switch and so it is not possible to recover these values in the field. This means that great care must be taken to ensure that the user name and password values are safely stored in a secure location.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 35 System Utility This menu is used to perform a range of system level functions including restarts, updating switch firmware and resetting the factory default values. Figure 34.System Utility Menu System Restart Figure 35.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 36 Factory Reset This mode allows selective restoration of parts of the switch to their factory default settings. This selective resetting is very useful in debugging network or switch problems when it is required to reset specific part of the switch such as VLANs etc.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 37 System Download In some cases, the switch firmware may need to be upgraded to add features or to correct problems etc. New firmware can be downloaded from a TFTP server to the switch. To enable this download to occur, load the new firmware image onto the TFTP server, enter the IP address of the switch and select the image file to be downloaded.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 38 Web-Based Management Introduction The switch includes an embedded HTTP server that enables full remote management and control of the switch using a standard browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. The HTTP server uses Java applets to display information and to acquire values from the user.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 39 Network Configuration This menu allows the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway of the switch to be changed. Note that these settings are critical to the switch and changes here could stop the browser or other management agent communicating with the switch.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 40 SNMP Community Setup Figure 42. The SNMP Community Setup Menu Public Community ( Read-only access right ) means that member of community can view the information but can not make changes to the configuration.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 41 SNMP Trap Receiver Figure 43. The Trap Receiver Menu Use trap receiver screen to designate certain community names to receive trap(s) generated by the system. SNMP Trap Filter Setup Figure 44. The Trap Filter Setup Menu The switch can generate a set of SNMP traps upon the occurrence of those events.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 42 Device Control Area Switch Configuration This menu sets the primary operating modes for the switch and has the same set of functions as described in the console port menus. Figure 45. The Switch Configuration upper Menu Figure 46.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 43 Switch Port Configuration This menu is used to configure the ports and has 3 sub-menus along the top of the screen:- • Port Administration • Trunk Group • Port Mirror Figure 47.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 44 Trunk Group menu Figure 49. The Trunk Group sub-menu within Switch Port Configuration Menu Port trunking is the ability to group several ports to increase the aggregate bandwidth between this switch and another compatible switch. This is an inexpensive way to increase bandwidth between switch or routers.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 45 Permanent Address Configuration Figure 51. The Static Unicast Address in Permanent Address Configuration Menu This Permanent Address menu has 2 sub-menus:- • Static Unicast Address • Static Multicast Address You can Add, modify, or delete Static Unicast Address by selecting entries from the following screen.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 46 Static Multicast Address Configuration In the Static Multicast Configuration Menu screen, you can associate ports with multicast groups. Up to 32 multicast groups can be supported by the switch. To add a new static group to the switch, use the Add button and enter the multicast address.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 47 Figure 53. The Switch level Spanning Tree Protocol Configuration - lower Menu Spanning Tree Protocol Port Configuration After the switch level variables have been configured, then the port level values should be set.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 48 Figure 55. Spanning Tree Protocol Port Configuration - Lower Menu See Spanning Tree Protocol Port Configuration on page 24 for details. Port Statistics Figure 56. The Port Statistics Menu You can view the port statistics information by either entering the port number in the Port Number field or using the pull-down list from that field.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 49 VLAN Configuration The switch supports a range of VLANs that can be configured using three sub-menus:- • Static VLAN Configuration • MTU/MDU Port VLAN Configuration • Port Based VLAN Configuration The default view is the Static VLAN Configuration and other 2 sub-menus are selected using the section links across the top of the pane.
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24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 50 The mapping of the VLAN will be shown in the display with the following values against each port number.:- • (S) – Port(s) is set as static (fixed) member of the VLAN.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 51 MTU/MDU Per-Port VLAN This is a special mode that places each switch port into a separate VLAN with downlink Ports 1-24 forwarded to either 1 or 2 uplink Ports. This is intended purely for applications where the security constraints are that downlink switch ports RJ-45 ports must never be allowed to communicate, for example in Multi-Tenanted buildings.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 52 Port Based VLAN Configuration This menu is accessed VLAN Configuration menu and is used to set the port based VLAN mapping for the switch. In this case, the VLANs purely provide an access link that does not support tagged VLAN traffic.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 53 GARP Configuration GARP (Generic Attribute Registration Protocol) defines the architecture, rules of operation, state machines and variables for the registration and de-registration of attribute values. It allows dynamic filter entries for VLAN membership to be distributed among the Forwarding Databases of VLAN-aware switches.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 54 IGMP Configuration Multicasting is used to support real-time applications such as video conferencing or streaming audio. IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) allows you to query for any attached hosts who want to receive a specific multicast service. The switch looks up the IP Multicast Group used for this service and adds any port, which received a similar request to that group.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 55 System Utility Menu System Restart This menu allows the switch to be restarted if required. Either a Warm Start or a Cold Start can be selected. See page 35 for further information.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 56 Login Timeout Interval The automatic log-out time for the Telnet and Local Console displays can be set to specific values for security purposes. If the value is 0, then there is no timeout specified for the interface.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 57 Update Setting This menu option saves the state of the switch into non-volatile memory. This enables the switch to be powered off and then recover with the original setting. It is recommended that this option be used to ensure that switch and network settings are retained.
24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 59 Disclaimer.............................2 Features ...............................2 Intelligent Management Features ......................2 Package Contents ..........................3 Management Methods..........................4 Console and Telnet Management ......................4 Web Based Management ........................4 SNMP Network Management .......................4 Hardware Description..........................5 The Front Panel............................5 10/100Base-TX Auto MDI/MDIX RJ-45 Ports ..................5...
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24 Port SNMP Managed Switch – User Manual Page 60 Serial Port Configuration........................39 SNMP Community Setup........................40 SNMP Trap Receiver ........................41 SNMP Trap Filter Setup .........................41 Device Control Area ...........................42 Switch Configuration ........................42 Switch Port Configuration ......................43 Port Administration menu.......................43 Trunk Group menu.........................44 Port Mirror menu..........................44...
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