Installation guide

Chapter 3
Connecting the Switch to the Network
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User Access Authentication
Username: admin
Password: mypassword
SWITCH>
The switch is now ready for configuration through the CLI or ARX
Manager. See the ARX Manager Quick Start: Network Setup or the ARX
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CLI Network-Management Guide (on the documentation CD provided with
the switch) for configuration instructions.
Preparing for Switch Replacement
For switch replacement, the above process becomes more complicated.
You can replace a single switch or a switch that is a member of a redundant
pair. The interview that runs during installation is the same regardless of the
type of replacement. For a single switch replacement, there are a few things
you must have done prior to the switch failing. This includes saving your
running and global configs, UUID, and master key and associated
passwords as described in the ARX Site Planning Guide, Best Practice:
Regularly Saving the Configuration, on page 1-64. The only other
differences between replacing a single switch and replacing a member of a
redundant pair is that for a single switch, a re-import is required at the
appropriate point during configuration. Since with a single switch
installation, the configuration is not saved on a backup switch, you have to
manage what you do with these key pieces of configuration data prior to the
switch’s failing.
Choosing Switch Replacement
The initial-boot script asks if this is a switch replacement. Answer yes to
invoke the questions that are required to replace the failed switch. For
example,
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A switch replacement requires additional configuration questions.
6. Are you doing a switch replacement?
in the format 'yes' or 'no'.(default=no) # yes
Matching the Private Subnet
The next set of questions ask for the switch’s private subnet, the private
VLAN for that subnet, and the VLAN for a private metalog subnet. If the
failed switch was in a redundant pair and/or Resilient-Overlay Network
(RON), the private subnets of the replacement switch should match those of
the switch that failed. Each ARX uses its private subnet for communication
with other ARXes in the same RON and/or the switch’s redundant peer. All
private subnets in the RON and/or pair are carried by the same VLAN. This
private VLAN, and the separate metalog VLAN, must be reserved for ARX
traffic only.