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Table Of Contents

Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module Configuration Guide 9.14.1.0
About this Guide
- Audience
- Conventions
- Information Symbols
- Related Documents
Before You Start
- Operational Modes
- Default Settings
- Other Auto-Configured Settings
- Data Center Bridging Support
- FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping
- iSCSI Operation
- Link Aggregation
- Link Tracking
- Configuring VLANs
  - Uplink LAG
  - Server-Facing LAGs
- Where to Go From Here
Configuration Fundamentals
- Accessing the Command Line
- CLI Modes
  - Navigating CLI Modes
- The do Command
- Undoing Commands
- Obtaining Help
- Entering and Editing Commands
- Command History
- Filtering show Command Outputs
- Multiple Users in Configuration Mode
Getting Started
- Console Access
  - Serial Console
  - External Serial Port with a USB Connector
- Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH
  - Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection
  - Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection
- Boot Process
- Default Configuration
- Configuring a Host Name
- Configuring a Unique Host Name on the System
- Accessing the System Remotely
- Configuring the Enable Password
- Configuration File Management
- Managing the File System
- View the Command History
- Using HTTP for File Transfers
- Upgrading and Downgrading the Dell Networking OS
- Verify Software Images Before Installation
- Deploying FN I/O Module
Management
- Configuring Privilege Levels
  - Creating a Custom Privilege Level
  - Customizing a Privilege Level
  - Applying a Privilege Level to a Username
  - Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line
- Configuring Logging
  - Audit and Security Logs
  - Configuring Logging Format
  - Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server
- Display the Logging Buffer and the Logging Configuration
- Log Messages in the Internal Buffer
  - Configuration Task List for System Log Management
- Disabling System Logging
- Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server
  - Configuring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server
- Changing System Logging Settings
- Display the Logging Buffer and the Logging Configuration
- Configuring a UNIX Logging Facility Level
- Synchronizing Log Messages
- Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages
- Enabling Secure Management Mode
- Enabling Secured CLI Mode
- File Transfer Services
  - Configuration Task List for File Transfer Services
  - Enabling the FTP Server
  - Configuring FTP Server Parameters
  - Configuring FTP Client Parameters
- Terminal Lines
  - Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line
  - Configuring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines
- Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode
- Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device
- Lock CONFIGURATION Mode
  - Viewing the Configuration Lock Status
- Limit Concurrent Login Sessions
  - Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions
  - Configuring Concurrent Session Limit
  - Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions
- Track Login Activity
  - Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity
  - Configuring Login Activity Tracking
  - Display Login Statistics
- Recovering from a Forgotten Password
- Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password
- Recovering from a Failed Start
802.1X
- The Port-Authentication Process
  - EAP over RADIUS
- Configuring 802.1X
  - Related Configuration Tasks
- Important Points to Remember
- Enabling 802.1X
  - Configuring Request Identity Re-Transmissions
  - Configuring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication
- Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port
- Re-Authenticating a Port
- Configuring Timeouts
- Configuring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication
Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)
- Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs
- Guidelines for Configuring ACL VLAN groups
- Configuring ACL VLAN Groups and Configuring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters
- Viewing CAM Usage
- Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Implementing ACL on the Dell Networking OS
- ACLs and VLANs
- ACL Optimization
- Determine the Order in which ACLs are Used to Classify Traffic
  - Example of the order Keyword to Determine ACL Sequence
- IP Fragment Handling
- IP Fragments ACL Examples
- Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples
- Configure a Standard IP ACL
- Configuring a Standard IP ACL Filter
- Configure an Extended IP ACL
- Configuring Filters with a Sequence Number
- Configuring Filters Without a Sequence Number
- Established Flag
- Configure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs
- Assign an IP ACL to an Interface
- Applying an IP ACL
- Counting ACL Hits
- Configure Ingress ACLs
- Configure Egress ACLs
- Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane)
- IP Prefix Lists
  - Implementation Information
- Configuration Task List for Prefix Lists
- Creating a Prefix List
- Creating a Prefix List Without a Sequence Number
- Viewing Prefix Lists
- Applying a Prefix List for Route Redistribution
- Applying a Filter to a Prefix List (OSPF)
- ACL Remarks
  - Configuring a Remark
  - Deleting a Remark
- ACL Resequencing
- Resequencing an ACL or Prefix List
- Route Maps
  - Implementation Information
- Important Points to Remember
- Configuration Task List for Route Maps
- Creating a Route Map
- Configure Route Map Filters
- Configuring Match Routes
- Configuring Set Conditions
- Configure a Route Map for Route Redistribution
- Configure a Route Map for Route Tagging
- Continue Clause
- Logging of ACL Processes
- Guidelines for Configuring ACL Logging
- Configuring ACL Logging
- Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs
  - Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring
- Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- How BFD Works
- Important Points to Remember
- Configure BFD
- Configure BFD for Static Routes
- Configure BFD for OSPF
- Configure BFD for OSPFv3
- Configure BFD for BGP
- Configure BFD for VRRP
- Configure BFD for VLANs
- Configure BFD for Port-Channels
- Configuring Protocol Liveness
Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)
- Autonomous Systems (AS)
- Sessions and Peers
  - Establish a Session
- Route Reflectors
  - Communities
- BGP Attributes
- Multiprotocol BGP
- Implement BGP with the Dell Networking OS
- Configuration Information
- BGP Configuration
  - Enabling BGP
  - Enabling MBGP Configurations
- BGP Regular Expression Optimization
- Debugging BGP
  - Storing Last and Bad PDUs
  - PDU Counters
- Sample Configurations
Configuration Cloning
- Cloning Configuration Output Status
Content Addressable Memory (CAM)
- CAM Allocation
- Test CAM Usage
- View CAM-ACL Settings
- Configuring CAM Threshold and Silence Period
  - Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period
- CAM Optimization
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
- Configure Control Plane Policing
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
- Supported Modes
- Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging
- Priority-Based Flow Control
- Enhanced Transmission Selection
- Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)
- Creating a DCB Map
  - Important Points to Remember
  - Applying a DCB Map on Server-Facing Ethernet Ports
- Data Center Bridging: Default Configuration
- Data Center Bridging in a Traffic Flow
- Data Center Bridging: Auto-DCB-Enable Mode
- Configuring Priority-Based Flow Control
- Configuring Enhanced Transmission Selection
  - How Enhanced Transmission Selection is Implemented
  - ETS Operation with DCBx
- Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies
- DCBx Operation
- Verifying the DCB Configuration
- QoS dot1p Traffic Classification and Queue Assignment
- Troubleshooting PFC, ETS, and DCBx Operation
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Supported Modes
- Assigning an IP Address using DHCP
- Debugging DHCP Client Operation
- DHCP Client
- How DHCP Client is Implemented
- DHCP Client on a Management Interface
- DHCP Client on a VLAN
- DHCP Packet Format and Options
- Option 82
- Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based IP Addresses
- Viewing DHCP Statistics and Lease Information
- Configuring DHCP relay source interface
  - Global DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 configuration
  - Interface level DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 configuration
- DHCP Snooping
Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)
- ECMP for Flow-Based Affinity
  - Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop
- Link Bundle Monitoring
- Managing ECMP Group Paths
FC FPORT
- FC FPORT
- Configuring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode
- Name Server
- FCoE Maps
- Creating an FCoE Map
- Zoning
- Creating Zone and Adding Members
- Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members
- Creating Zonesets
- Activating a Zoneset
- Displaying the Fabric Parameters
FCoE Transit
- Supported Modes
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network
- FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges
- FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack
- Using FIP Snooping
- Displaying FIP Snooping Information
- FCoE Transit Configuration Example
FIPS Cryptography
- Preparing the System
- Enabling FIPS Mode
- Generating Host-Keys
- Monitoring FIPS Mode Status
- Disabling FIPS Mode
Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)
- Protocol Overview
- Implementing FRRP
- FRRP Configuration
- Troubleshooting FRRP
  - Configuration Checks
- Sample Configuration and Topology
- FRRP Support on VLT
  - Example Scenario
  - Important Points to Remember
GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)
- Important Points to Remember
- Configure GVRP
  - Related Configuration Tasks
- Enabling GVRP Globally
- Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface
- Configure GVRP Registration
- Configure a GARP Timer
FIP Snooping
- Supported Modes
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Ensuring Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network
- FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges
- How FIP Snooping is Implemented
- Configuring FIP Snooping
- Displaying FIP Snooping Information
- FIP Snooping Example
- Debugging FIP Snooping
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
- IGMP Overview
- IGMP Version 2
  - Joining a Multicast Group
  - Leaving a Multicast Group
- IGMP Version 3
  - Joining and Filtering Groups and Sources
  - Leaving and Staying in Groups
- IGMP Snooping
- How IGMP Snooping is Implemented on an Aggregator
- Disabling Multicast Flooding
- Displaying IGMP Information
Interfaces
- Basic Interface Configuration
- Advanced Interface Configuration
- Interface Types
- View Basic Interface Information
- Configuring the Default Interface
- Enabling a Physical Interface
- Physical Interfaces
  - Configuration Task List for Physical Interfaces
  - Overview of Layer Modes
  - Configuring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode
  - Configuring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode
  - Configuring Layer 3 (Network) Mode
  - Configuring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode
- Automatic recovery of an Err-disabled interface
  - Configuring an automatic recovery for an Err-disabled interface
- Management Interfaces
  - Configuring Management Interfaces on the Switch
- VLAN Interfaces
- Loopback Interfaces
- Null Interfaces
- VLAN Membership
  - Default VLAN
  - Port-Based VLANs
  - VLANs and Port Tagging
  - Configuring VLAN Membership
  - Displaying VLAN Membership
  - Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN
  - Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN
  - VLAN Configuration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels
- Port Channel Interfaces
  - Port Channel Definition and Standards
  - Port Channel Benefits
  - Port Channel Implementation
  - 100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels
  - Configuration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces
  - Creating a Port Channel
  - Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel
  - Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel
  - Configuring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel
  - Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN
  - Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel
  - Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel
- Load Balancing through Port Channels
- Changing the Hash Algorithm
- Server Ports
  - Default Configuration without Start-up Config
- Bulk Configuration
  - Interface Range
  - Bulk Configuration Examples
- Defining Interface Range Macros
  - Define the Interface Range
  - Choosing an Interface-Range Macro
- Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces
  - Maintenance Using TDR
- Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports
  - Merging SFP+ Ports to QSFP 40G Ports
  - Configure the MTU Size on an Interface
- Configuring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics
- Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port
  - Important Points to Remember
  - Example Scenarios
- Layer 2 Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames
  - Enabling Pause Frames
- Configure MTU Size on an Interface
- Port-Pipes
- Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces
  - Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces
- View Advanced Interface Information
  - Configuring the Interface Sampling Size
  - Configuring the Traffic Sampling Size Globally
  - Dynamic Counters
- Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing
Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)
- Configuring IPSec
IPv4 Routing
- IP Addresses
  - Implementation Information
  - Configuration Tasks for IP Addresses
- IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview
  - Packet handling during MTU mismatch
- Using the Configured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages
  - Configuring the ICMP Source Interface
- Configuring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection
- Enabling Directed Broadcast
- Resolution of Host Names
- ARP
  - Configuration Tasks for ARP
- ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP
- ARP Learning via ARP Request
- Configuring ARP Retries
- ICMP
  - Configuration Tasks for ICMP
- UDP Helper
- Configurations Using UDP Helper
- Troubleshooting UDP Helper
IPv6 Routing
- Protocol Overview
  - Extended Address Space
  - Stateless Autoconfiguration
- IPv6 Header Fields
- Extension Header Fields
  - Hop-by-Hop Options Header
- Addressing
  - Link-local Addresses
  - Static and Dynamic Addressing
- Implementing IPv6 with the Dell Networking OS
- ICMPv6
- Path MTU Discovery
- IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
  - IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets
- Configuration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS
- IPv6 Multicast
- Configuration Task List for IPv6
- Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport
iSCSI Optimization
- Supported Modes
- iSCSI Optimization Overview
- Monitoring iSCSI Traffic Flows
- Information Monitored in iSCSI Traffic Flows
- Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer
- iSCSI Optimization: Operation
- Configuring iSCSI Optimization
- Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information
Intermediate System to Intermediate System
- IS-IS Protocol Overview
- IS-IS Addressing
- Multi-Topology IS-IS
- Graceful Restart
  - Timers
- Implementation Information
- Configuration Information
  - Configuration Tasks for IS-IS
- IS-IS Metric Styles
- Configure Metric Values
- Sample Configurations
Isolated Networks for Aggregators
- Configuring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings
Link Aggregation
- Supported Modes
- How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Configuring Auto LAG
- Configuring the Minimum Number of Links to be Up for Uplink LAGs to be Active
- Optimizing Traffic Disruption Over LAG Interfaces On IOA Switches in VLT Mode
- Preserving LAG and Port Channel Settings in Nonvolatile Storage
- Enabling LACP link-fallback
- Enabling the Verification of Member Links Utilization in a LAG Bundle
- Monitoring the Member Links of a LAG Bundle
- Verifying LACP Operation and LAG Configuration
- Multiple Uplink LAGs with 10G Member Ports
Layer 2
- Supported Modes
- Managing the MAC Address Table
- Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming
  - MAC Address Station Move
  - MAC Move Optimization
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- Supported Modes
- Protocol Data Units
- Configure LLDP
  - Related Configuration Tasks
  - Important Points to Remember
- CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Configurations
- Enabling LLDP
  - Disabling and Undoing LLDP
- Advertising TLVs
- Optional TLVs
- LLDP Operation
- Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
- Viewing the LLDP Configuration
- Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents
- Configuring LLDPDU Intervals
- Configuring a Time to Live
- Clearing LLDP Counters
- Debugging LLDP
- Relevant Management Objects
Microsoft Network Load Balancing
- NLB Unicast Mode Scenario
- NLB Multicast Mode Scenario
- Limitations With Enabling NLB on Switches
- Benefits and Working of Microsoft Clustering
- Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding
- Configuring a Switch for NLB
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
- Protocol Overview
- Anycast RP
- Implementation Information
- Configure the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol
  - Related Configuration Tasks
- Enabling MSDP
- Manage the Source-Active Cache
- Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check
- Specifying Source-Active Messages
- Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer
- Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source
- Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source
- Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source
- Logging Changes in Peership States
- Terminating a Peership
- Clearing Peer Statistics
- Debugging MSDP
- MSDP with Anycast RP
- Configuring Anycast RP
  - Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding
  - Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages
- MSDP Sample Configurations
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
- Protocol Overview
- Spanning Tree Variations
- Implementation Information
- Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
  - Related Configuration Tasks
- Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally
- Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances
- Influencing MSTP Root Selection
- Interoperate with Non-Dell Networking OS Bridges
- Changing the Region Name or Revision
- Modifying Global Parameters
- Enable BPDU Filtering Globally
- Modifying the Interface Parameters
- Configuring an EdgePort
- Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change
- MSTP Sample Configurations
  - Router 1 Running-ConfigurationRouter 2 Running-ConfigurationRouter 3 Running-ConfigurationSFTOS Example Running-Configuration
- Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations
Multicast Features
- Enabling IP Multicast
- Implementation Information
- First Packet Forwarding for Lossless Multicast
- Multicast Policies
- IPv4 Multicast Policies
- Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)
  - Important Points to Remember
- Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths
- Supported Error Codes
- mtrace Scenarios
Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)
- Protocol Overview
- OSPF with the Dell Networking OS
- Configuration Information
  - Configuration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4)
  - Troubleshooting OSPFv2
- OSPFv3 NSSA
  - NSSA Options
- Configuration Task List for OSPFv3 (OSPF for IPv6)
- MIB Support for OSPFv3
  - Viewing the OSPFv3 MIB
- MIB Support for OSPFv3
  - Viewing the OSPFv3 MIB
Policy-based Routing (PBR)
- Overview
- Implementing Policy-based Routing with Dell Networking OS
- Configuration Task List for Policy-based Routing
  - PBR Exceptions (Permit)
- Apply a Redirect-list to an Interface using a Redirect-group
- Sample Configuration
  - Create the Redirect-List GOLDAssign Redirect-List GOLD to Interface 2/11View Redirect-List GOLD
PIM Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM)
- Implementation Information
- Protocol Overview
- Configuring PIM-SM
  - Related Configuration Tasks
- Enable PIM-SM
- Configuring S,G Expiry Timers
- Configuring a Static Rendezvous Point
  - Overriding Bootstrap Router Updates
- Configuring a Designated Router
- Creating Multicast Boundaries and Domains
- Enabling PIM-SM Graceful Restart
PIM Source-Specific Mode (PIM-SSM)
- Configure PIM-SMM
  - Related Configuration Tasks
- Implementation Information
  - Important Points to Remember
- Enabling PIM-SSM
- Use PIM-SSM with IGMP Version 2 Hosts
  - Configuring PIM-SSM with IGMPv2
- Electing an RP using the BSR Mechanism
  - Enabling RP to Server Specific Multicast Groups
Port Monitoring
- Supported Modes
- Configuring Port Monitoring
- Important Points to Remember
- Port Monitoring
- Remote Port Mirroring
- Encapsulated Remote Port Monitoring
Private VLANs (PVLAN)
- Private VLAN Concepts
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+)
- Protocol Overview
  - Implementation Information
- Configure Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
  - Related Configuration Tasks
- Enabling PVST+
- Disabling PVST+
  - Influencing PVST+ Root Selection
- Modifying Global PVST+ Parameters
- Modifying Interface PVST+ Parameters
- Configuring an EdgePort
- PVST+ in Multi-Vendor Networks
- Enabling PVST+ Extend System ID
- PVST+ Sample Configurations
- Enable BPDU Filtering globally
Quality of Service (QoS)
- Implementation Information
- Port-Based QoS Configurations
- Guidelines for Configuring ECN for Classifying and Color-Marking Packets
- Policy-Based QoS Configurations
- Enabling QoS Rate Adjustment
- Enabling Strict-Priority Queueing
- Weighted Random Early Detection
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
- Protocol Overview
  - RIPv1
  - RIPv2
- Implementation Information
- Configuration Information
  - Configuration Task List
  - RIP Configuration Example
Remote Monitoring (RMON)
- Implementation Information
- Fault Recovery
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
- Protocol Overview
- Configuring Rapid Spanning Tree
  - Related Configuration Tasks
  - Important Points to Remember
- Configuring Interfaces for Layer 2 Mode
- Enabling Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol Globally
- Adding and Removing Interfaces
- Modifying Global Parameters
- Enable BPDU Filtering Globally
- Modifying Interface Parameters
- Configuring an EdgePort
- Influencing RSTP Root Selection
- SNMP Traps for Root Elections and Topology Changes
- Configuring Fast Hellos for Link State Detection
Security
- Supported Modes
- Understanding Banner Settings
- Accessing the I/O Aggregator Using the CMC Console Only
- AAA Accounting
  - Configuration Task List for AAA Accounting
- AAA Authentication
  - Configuration Task List for AAA Authentication
- AAA Authorization
  - Privilege Levels Overview
  - Configuration Task List for Privilege Levels
- RADIUS
- TACACS+
  - Configuration Task List for TACACS+
  - TACACS+ Remote Authentication
- Enabling SCP and SSH
- Telnet
- VTY Line and Access-Class Configuration
  - VTY Line Local Authentication and Authorization
  - VTY Line Remote Authentication and Authorization
- Role-Based Access Control
- Dell EMC Networking OS Security Hardening
Service Provider Bridging
- VLAN Stacking
- VLAN Stacking Packet Drop Precedence
- Dynamic Mode CoS for VLAN Stacking
  - Mapping C-Tag to S-Tag dot1p Values
- Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling
- Provider Backbone Bridging
sFlow
- Overview
- Implementation Information
  - Important Points to Remember
- Enabling and Disabling sFlow
  - Enabling and Disabling sFlow on an Interface
- Enabling sFlow Max-Header Size Extended
- sFlow Show Commands
- Configuring Specify Collectors
- Changing the Polling Intervals
- Changing the Sampling Rate
  - Sub-Sampling
- Back-Off Mechanism
- sFlow on LAG ports
- Enabling Extended sFlow
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Supported Modes
- Implementation Information
- Configuring the Simple Network Management Protocol
  - Important Points to Remember
  - Setting up SNMP
  - Creating a Community
- Setting Up User-Based Security (SNMPv3)
- Reading Managed Object Values
- Displaying the Ports in a VLAN using SNMP
- Fetching Dynamic MAC Entries using SNMP
- Deriving Interface Indices
- Monitor Port-Channels
- Entity MIBS
  - Example of Sample Entity MIBS outputs
- SNMP Traps for Link Status
- Standard VLAN MIB
  - Enhancements
  - Fetching the Switchport Configuration and the Logical Interface Configuration
- MIB Support to Display the Available Memory Size on Flash
  - Viewing the Available Flash Memory Size
- MIB Support to Display the Software Core Files Generated by the System
  - Viewing the Software Core Files Generated by the System
- SNMP Support for WRED Green/Yellow/Red Drop Counters
- MIB Support to Display the Available Partitions on Flash
  - Viewing the Available Partitions on Flash
- MIB Support to Display Egress Queue Statistics
- MIB Support to Display Egress Queue Statistics
  - Viewing the ECMP Group Count Information
- MIB Support for entAliasMappingTable
  - Viewing the entAliasMappingTable MIB
- MIB Support for LAG
  - Viewing the LAG MIB
- MIB Support to Display Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
  - MIB Support to Display Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
  - MIB Support to Display Organizational Specific Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
- MIB support for Port Security
  - Global MIB objects for port security
  - MIB support for interface level port security
  - MIB objects for configuring MAC addresses
  - MIB objects for configuring MAC addresses
- Transceiver Monitoring
- Configuring SNMP context name
Stacking
- Supported Modes
- Configuring a Switch Stack
- Verifying a Stack Configuration
  - Using Show Commands
- Troubleshooting a Switch Stack
  - Failure Scenarios
- Upgrading a Switch Stack
- Upgrading a Single Stack Unit
- Stack Link Failure Detection
  - Configuring Port Shutdown when Both Stack Links are Down
Storm Control
- Configure Storm Control
  - Configuring Storm Control from INTERFACE Mode
  - Configuring Storm Control from CONFIGURATION Mode
Broadcast Storm Control
- Supported Modes
- Disabling Broadcast Storm Control
- Displaying Broadcast-Storm Control Status
- Configuring Storm Control
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Protocol Overview
- Configure Spanning Tree
  - Related Configuration Tasks
  - Important Points to Remember
- Configuring Interfaces for Layer 2 Mode
- Enabling Spanning Tree Protocol Globally
- Adding an Interface to the Spanning Tree Group
- Removing an Interface from the Spanning Tree Group
- Modifying Global Parameters
- Modifying Interface STP Parameters
- Enabling Port Fast
  - Prevent Network Disruptions with BPDU Guard
- Global BPDU Filtering
  - Interface BPDU Filtering
- Selecting STP Root
- STP Root Guard
  - Root Guard Scenario
  - Configuring Root Guard
- SNMP Traps for Root Elections and Topology Changes
- Displaying STP Guard Configuration
SupportAssist
- Configuring SupportAssist Using a Configuration Wizard
- Configuring SupportAssist Manually
- Configuring SupportAssist Activity
- Configuring SupportAssist Company
- Configuring SupportAssist Person
- Configuring SupportAssist Server
- Viewing SupportAssist Configuration
System Time and Date
- Network Time Protocol
- Dell Networking OS Time and Date
Tunneling
- Configuring a Tunnel
- Configuring Tunnel keepalive
- Configuring the ip and ipv6 unnumbered
- Configuring the Tunnel allow-remote
- Configuring the Tunnel Source Anylocal
Uplink Failure Detection (UFD)
- Supported Modes
- Feature Description
- How Uplink Failure Detection Works
- UFD and NIC Teaming
- Important Points to Remember
- Uplink Failure Detection (SMUX mode)
- Configuring Uplink Failure Detection (PMUX mode)
- Clearing a UFD-Disabled Interface (in PMUX mode)
- Displaying Uplink Failure Detection
- Sample Configuration: Uplink Failure Detection
PMUX Mode of the IO Aggregator
- I/O Aggregator (IOA) Programmable MUX (PMUX) Mode
- Configuring and Changing to PMUX Mode
- Configuring the Commands without a Separate User Account
- Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)
NPIV Proxy Gateway
- NPIV Proxy Gateway Configuration
- NPIV Proxy Gateway Operations and Capabilities
- Configuring an NPIV Proxy Gateway
- Displaying NPIV Proxy Gateway Information
Upgrade Procedures
- Get Help with Upgrades
Virtual LANs (VLANs)
- Default VLAN
- Enabling Null VLAN as the Default VLAN
Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)
- Overview
  - Multi-domain VLT
- VLT Terminology
- Configure Virtual Link Trunking
- RSTP Configuration
- PVST+ Configuration
  - Sample PVST+ Configuration
- mVLT Configuration Example
  - In Domain 1, configure the VLT domain and VLTi on Peer 1Configure mVLT on Peer 1Add links to the mVLT port-channel on Peer 1Next, configure the VLT domain and VLTi on Peer 2Configure mVLT on Peer 2Add links to the mVLT port-channel on Peer 2In Domain 2, configure the VLT domain and VLTi on Peer 3Configure mVLT on Peer 3Add links to the mVLT port-channel on Peer 3Configure the VLT domain and VLTi on Peer 4Configure mVLT on Peer 4Add links to the mVLT port-channel on Peer 4
- PIM-Sparse Mode Configuration Example
- Additional VLT Sample Configurations
  - Configuring Virtual Link Trunking (VLT Peer 1)Configuring Virtual Link Trunking (VLT Peer 2)Verifying a Port-Channel Connection to a VLT Domain (From an Attached Access Switch)
- Troubleshooting VLT
- Specifying VLT Nodes in a PVLAN
- Configuring a VLT VLAN or LAG in a PVLAN
- Proxy ARP Capability on VLT Peer Nodes
  - Working of Proxy ARP for VLT Peer Nodes
- Configuring VLAN-Stack over VLT
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- VRRP Overview
- VRRP Benefits
- VRRP Implementation
- VRRP Configuration
  - Configuration Task List
  - Setting VRRP Initialization Delay
- Sample Configurations
  - VRRP for an IPv4 Configuration
Debugging and Diagnostics
- Supported Modes
- Debugging Aggregator Operation
- Software show Commands
- Offline Diagnostics
  - Important Points to Remember
  - Running Offline Diagnostics
- Trace Logs
  - Auto Save on Crash or Rollover
- Using the Show Hardware Commands
- Environmental Monitoring
- Troubleshooting Packet Loss
- Enabling Buffer Statistics Tracking
- Restoring the Factory Default Settings
  - Important Points to Remember
Standards Compliance
- IEEE Compliance
- RFC and I-D Compliance
- MIB Location
FC Flex IO Modules
- FC Flex IO Modules
- Understanding and Working of the FC Flex IO Modules
- Data Center Bridging (DCB)
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet for FC Flex IO Modules
- NPIV Proxy Gateway for FC Flex IO Modules

TLV Sub-Type TLV Name TLV Variable System LLDP-MED MIB Object

lldpXMedRemXPoEPDPow

erReq

502 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)