Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Configuration Guide for the Z9000 System 9.7(0.0)
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Configuration Fundamentals
- Getting Started
- Console Access
- Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH
- Default Configuration
- Configuring a Host Name
- Accessing the System Remotely
- Configuring the Enable Password
- Configuration File Management
- Managing the File System
- Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option
- View Command History
- Upgrading Dell Networking OS
- Using HTTP for File Transfers
- Using Hashes to Validate Software Images
- Management
- Configuring Privilege Levels
- Configuring Logging
- Log Messages in the Internal Buffer
- Disabling System Logging
- Sending System Messages to 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
- File Transfer Services
- Terminal Lines
- Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode
- Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device
- Lock CONFIGURATION Mode
- Recovering from a Forgotten Password on the Z9000 System
- Recovering from a Failed Start on the Z9000 System
- Restoring the Factory Default Settings
- 802.1X
- The Port-Authentication Process
- Configuring 802.1X
- Important Points to Remember
- Enabling 802.1X
- Configuring Request Identity Re-Transmissions
- Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port
- Re-Authenticating a Port
- Configuring Timeouts
- Configuring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication
- Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- IP Fragment Handling
- Configure a Standard IP ACL
- Configure an Extended IP ACL
- Configure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs
- Assign an IP ACL to an Interface
- Applying an IP ACL
- Configure Ingress ACLs
- Configure Egress ACLs
- IP Prefix Lists
- ACL Resequencing
- Route Maps
- Important Points to Remember
- Logging of ACL Processes
- Guidelines for Configuring ACL Logging
- Configuring ACL Logging
- Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs
- Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring
- Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)
- Autonomous Systems (AS)
- Sessions and Peers
- Route Reflectors
- BGP Attributes
- Multiprotocol BGP
- Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS
- Configuration Information
- BGP Configuration
- Enabling BGP
- Configuring AS4 Number Representations
- Configuring Peer Groups
- Configuring BGP Fast Fall-Over
- Configuring Passive Peering
- Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration
- Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path
- Enabling Graceful Restart
- Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart
- Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute
- Regular Expressions as Filters
- Redistributing Routes
- Enabling Additional Paths
- Configuring IP Community Lists
- Configuring an IP Extended Community List
- Filtering Routes with Community Lists
- Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute
- Changing MED Attributes
- Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute
- Changing the NEXT_HOP Attribute
- Changing the WEIGHT Attribute
- Enabling Multipath
- Filtering BGP Routes
- Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps
- Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information
- Configuring BGP Route Reflectors
- Aggregating Routes
- Configuring BGP Confederations
- Enabling Route Flap Dampening
- Changing BGP Timers
- Enabling BGP Neighbor Soft-Reconfiguration
- Route Map Continue
- Enabling MBGP Configurations
- BGP Regular Expression Optimization
- Debugging BGP
- Sample Configurations
- Content Addressable Memory (CAM)
- Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- DHCP Packet Format and Options
- Assign an IP Address using DHCP
- Implementation Information
- Configure the System to be a DHCP Server
- Configure the System to be a Relay Agent
- Configure the System to be a DHCP Client
- Configure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230)
- Configure Secure DHCP
- Option 82
- DHCP Snooping
- Enabling DHCP Snooping
- Enabling IPv6 DHCP Snooping
- Adding a Static Entry in the Binding Table
- Adding a Static IPV6 DHCP Snooping Binding Table
- Clearing the Binding Table
- Clearing the DHCP IPv6 Binding Table
- Displaying the Contents of the Binding Table
- Displaying the Contents of the DHCPv6 Binding Table
- Debugging the IPv6 DHCP
- IPv6 DHCP Snooping MAC-Address Verification
- Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only
- Dynamic ARP Inspection
- Configuring Dynamic ARP Inspection
- Source Address Validation
- Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)
- Enabling FIPS Cryptography
- Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)
- GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
- IGMP Protocol Overview
- Configure IGMP
- Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces
- Selecting an IGMP Version
- Viewing IGMP Groups
- Adjusting Timers
- Configuring a Static IGMP Group
- Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave
- IGMP Snooping
- Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes
- Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications
- Designating a Multicast Router Interface
- Interfaces
- Interface Types
- View Basic Interface Information
- Enabling a Physical Interface
- Physical Interfaces
- Egress Interface Selection (EIS)
- Management Interfaces
- VLAN Interfaces
- Loopback Interfaces
- Null Interfaces
- Port Channel Interfaces
- Port Channel Definition and Standards
- Port Channel Benefits
- Port Channel Implementation
- 10/100/1000 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
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- Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel
- Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel
- Load Balancing Through Port Channels
- Load-Balancing Method
- Changing the Hash Algorithm
- Bulk Configuration
- Defining Interface Range Macros
- Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces
- Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports
- Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port
- Link Dampening
- Link Bundle Monitoring
- Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control
- Configure the MTU Size on an Interface
- Port-Pipes
- Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces
- View Advanced Interface Information
- Dynamic Counters
- Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges
- Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)
- IPv4 Routing
- IP Addresses
- Configuration Tasks for IP Addresses
- Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface
- Configuring Static Routes
- Configure Static Routes for the Management Interface
- IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview
- Using the Configured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages
- Configuring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection
- Enabling Directed Broadcast
- Resolution of Host Names
- Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names
- Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains
- Configuring DNS with Traceroute
- ARP
- Configuration Tasks for ARP
- Configuring Static ARP Entries
- Enabling Proxy ARP
- Clearing ARP Cache
- ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP
- Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP
- ARP Learning via ARP Request
- Configuring ARP Retries
- ICMP
- Configuration Tasks for ICMP
- Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages
- UDP Helper
- Enabling UDP Helper
- Configuring a Broadcast Address
- Configurations Using UDP Helper
- UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses
- UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses
- UDP Helper with Configured Broadcast Addresses
- UDP Helper with No Configured Broadcast Addresses
- Troubleshooting UDP Helper
- IPv6 Routing
- Protocol Overview
- Implementing IPv6 with Dell Networking OS
- ICMPv6
- Path MTU Discovery
- IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
- Configuration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS
- Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport
- Configuration Tasks for IPv6
- Configuring IPv6 RA Guard
- Intermediate System to Intermediate System
- IS-IS Protocol Overview
- IS-IS Addressing
- Multi-Topology IS-IS
- Graceful Restart
- Implementation Information
- Configuration Information
- IS-IS Metric Styles
- Configure Metric Values
- Sample Configurations
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP
- LACP Configuration Tasks
- Shared LAG State Tracking
- LACP Basic Configuration Example
- Setting Up a Threshold for Utilization of High-Gigabit Port Channels
- Enabling the Verification of Member Links Utilization in a High-Gigabit Port Channel
- Viewing Buffer Utilization and Queue Statistics on High-Gigabit Ethernet Backplane Ports
- Layer 2
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- 802.1AB (LLDP) Overview
- Optional TLVs
- TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview
- Configure LLDP
- CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Configurations
- Enabling LLDP
- Enabling LLDP on Management Ports
- Advertising TLVs
- Viewing the LLDP Configuration
- Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents
- Configuring LLDPDU Intervals
- Configuring Transmit and Receive Mode
- Configuring a Time to Live
- Debugging LLDP
- Relevant Management Objects
- Microsoft Network Load Balancing
- Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
- Anycast RP
- Implementation Information
- Configure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol
- Enable 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
- MSDP Sample Configurations
- Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
- Spanning Tree Variations
- Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
- Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally
- Adding and Removing Interfaces
- 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
- Modifying the Interface Parameters
- Configuring an EdgePort
- Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change
- MSTP Sample Configurations
- Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations
- Multicast Features
- Object Tracking
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)
- Protocol Overview
- OSPF with Dell Networking OS
- Configuration Information
- Configuration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4)
- Enabling OSPFv2
- Assigning a Router ID
- Enabling Multi-Process OSPF (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only)
- Assigning an OSPFv2 Area
- Enable OSPFv2 on Interfaces
- Configuring Stub Areas
- Enabling Passive Interfaces
- Enabling Fast-Convergence
- Changing OSPFv2 Parameters on Interfaces
- Enabling OSPFv2 Authentication
- Enabling OSPFv2 Graceful Restart
- Creating Filter Routes
- Applying Prefix Lists
- Redistributing Routes
- Troubleshooting OSPFv2
- Configuration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4)
- Sample Configurations for OSPFv2
- Configuration Task List for OSPFv3 (OSPF for IPv6)
- Enabling IPv6 Unicast Routing
- Assigning IPv6 Addresses on an Interface
- Assigning Area ID on an Interface
- Assigning OSPFv3 Process ID and Router ID Globally
- Configuring Stub Areas
- Configuring Passive-Interface
- Redistributing Routes
- Configuring a Default Route
- Enabling OSPFv3 Graceful Restart
- OSPFv3 Authentication Using IPsec
- Troubleshooting OSPFv3
- Policy-based Routing (PBR)
- PIM Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM)
- PIM Source-Specific Mode (PIM-SSM)
- Port Monitoring
- Private VLANs (PVLAN)
- Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+)
- Protocol Overview
- Implementation Information
- Configure Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
- 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
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Implementation Information
- Port-Based QoS Configurations
- Policy-Based QoS Configurations
- Enabling QoS Rate Adjustment
- Enabling Strict-Priority Queueing
- Weighted Random Early Detection
- Pre-Calculating Available QoS CAM Space
- Configuring Weights and ECN for WRED
- Configuring WRED and ECN Attributes
- Guidelines for Configuring ECN for Classifying and Color-Marking Packets
- Applying Layer 2 Match Criteria on a Layer 3 Interface
- Applying DSCP and VLAN Match Criteria on a Service Queue
- Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
- Remote Monitoring (RMON)
- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
- Protocol Overview
- Configuring Rapid Spanning Tree
- Important Points to Remember
- Configuring Interfaces for Layer 2 Mode
- Enabling Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol Globally
- Adding and Removing Interfaces
- Modifying Global Parameters
- Modifying Interface Parameters
- Enabling SNMP Traps for Root Elections and Topology Changes
- Influencing RSTP Root Selection
- Configuring an EdgePort
- Configuring Fast Hellos for Link State Detection
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- Security
- AAA Accounting
- AAA Authentication
- Obscuring Passwords and Keys
- AAA Authorization
- RADIUS
- TACACS+
- Protection from TCP Tiny and Overlapping Fragment Attacks
- Enabling SCP and SSH
- Using SCP with SSH to Copy a Software Image
- Removing the RSA Host Keys and Zeroizing Storage
- Configuring When to Re-generate an SSH Key
- Configuring the SSH Server Key Exchange Algorithm
- Configuring the HMAC Algorithm for the SSH Server
- Configuring the SSH Server Cipher List
- Secure Shell Authentication
- Troubleshooting SSH
- Telnet
- VTY Line and Access-Class Configuration
- Role-Based Access Control
- Service Provider Bridging
- sFlow
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Protocol Overview
- Implementation Information
- SNMPv3 Compliance With FIPS
- Configuration Task List for SNMP
- Important Points to Remember
- Set up SNMP
- Reading Managed Object Values
- Writing Managed Object Values
- Configuring Contact and Location Information using SNMP
- Subscribing to Managed Object Value Updates using SNMP
- Enabling a Subset of SNMP Traps
- Copy Configuration Files Using SNMP
- Copying a Configuration File
- Copying Configuration Files via SNMP
- Copying the Startup-Config Files to the Running-Config
- Copying the Startup-Config Files to the Server via FTP
- Copying the Startup-Config Files to the Server via TFTP
- Copy a Binary File to the Startup-Configuration
- Additional MIB Objects to View Copy Statistics
- Obtaining a Value for MIB Objects
- MIB Support to Display the Available Memory Size on Flash
- MIB Support to Display the Software Core Files Generated by the System
- Manage VLANs using SNMP
- Managing Overload on Startup
- Enabling and Disabling a Port using SNMP
- Fetch Dynamic MAC Entries using SNMP
- Deriving Interface Indices
- Monitor Port-Channels
- Troubleshooting SNMP Operation
- Storm Control
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Protocol Overview
- Configure Spanning Tree
- Important Points to Remember
- Configuring Interfaces for Layer 2 Mode
- Enabling Spanning Tree Protocol Globally
- Adding an Interface to the Spanning Tree Group
- Modifying Global Parameters
- Modifying Interface STP Parameters
- Enabling PortFast
- Selecting STP Root
- STP Root Guard
- Enabling SNMP Traps for Root Elections and Topology Changes
- Configuring Spanning Trees as Hitless
- STP Loop Guard
- Displaying STP Guard Configuration
- System Time and Date
- Tunneling
- Configuring a Tunnel
- Configuring Tunnel Keepalive Settings
- Configuring a Tunnel Interface
- Configuring Tunnel allow-remote Decapsulation
- Configuring Tunnel source anylocal Decapsulation
- Guidelines for Configuring Multipoint Receive-Only Tunnels
- Multipoint Receive-Only Type and IP Unnumbered Interfaces for Tunnels
- Upgrade Procedures
- Virtual LANs (VLANs)
- Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)
- Overview
- VLT Terminology
- Configure Virtual Link Trunking
- RSTP Configuration
- Preventing Forwarding Loops in a VLT Domain
- Sample RSTP Configuration
- Configuring VLT
- Configuring a VLT Interconnect
- Enabling VLT and Creating a VLT Domain
- Configuring a VLT Backup Link
- Configuring a VLT Port Delay Period
- Reconfiguring the Default VLT Settings (Optional)
- Connecting a VLT Domain to an Attached Access Device (Switch or Server)
- Configuring a VLT VLAN Peer-Down (Optional)
- Configuring Enhanced VLT (eVLT) (Optional)
- VLT Sample Configuration
- PVST+ Configuration
- eVLT Configuration Example
- PIM-Sparse Mode Configuration Example
- Verifying a VLT Configuration
- Additional VLT Sample Configurations
- Troubleshooting VLT
- Reconfiguring Stacked Switches as VLT
- Specifying VLT Nodes in a PVLAN
- Configuring a VLT VLAN or LAG in a PVLAN
- Proxy ARP Capability on VLT Peer Nodes
- VLT Nodes as Rendezvous Points for Multicast Resiliency
- Configuring VLAN-Stack over VLT
- VLT Proxy Gateway
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- VRRP Overview
- VRRP Benefits
- VRRP Implementation
- VRRP Configuration
- Configuration Task List
- Creating a Virtual Router
- Configuring the VRRP Version for an IPv4 Group
- Assign Virtual IP addresses
- Configuring a Virtual IP Address
- Setting VRRP Group (Virtual Router) Priority
- Configuring VRRP Authentication
- Disabling Preempt
- Changing the Advertisement Interval
- Track an Interface or Object
- Tracking an Interface
- Setting VRRP Initialization Delay
- Configuration Task List
- Sample Configurations
- Z-Series Debugging and Diagnostics
- Standards Compliance
Configuring Spanning Trees as Hitless...................................................................................................................... 686
STP Loop Guard..............................................................................................................................................................686
Configuring Loop Guard.......................................................................................................................................... 687
Displaying STP Guard Configuration.......................................................................................................................... 688
Chapter 49: System Time and Date............................................................................................689
Network Time Protocol................................................................................................................................................. 689
Protocol Overview....................................................................................................................................................690
Configure the Network Time Protocol................................................................................................................ 690
Enabling NTP............................................................................................................................................................. 690
Configuring NTP Broadcasts.................................................................................................................................. 691
Disabling NTP on an Interface................................................................................................................................ 691
Configuring a Source IP Address for NTP Packets...........................................................................................691
Configuring NTP Authentication........................................................................................................................... 692
Dell Networking OS Time and Date............................................................................................................................694
Configuration Task List .......................................................................................................................................... 694
Setting the Time and Date for the Switch Software Clock............................................................................694
Setting the Timezone...............................................................................................................................................694
Set Daylight Saving Time........................................................................................................................................695
Setting Daylight Saving Time Once......................................................................................................................695
Setting Recurring Daylight Saving Time..............................................................................................................696
Chapter 50: Tunneling .............................................................................................................. 698
Configuring a Tunnel...................................................................................................................................................... 698
Configuring Tunnel Keepalive Settings......................................................................................................................699
Configuring a Tunnel Interface....................................................................................................................................699
Configuring Tunnel allow-remote Decapsulation.....................................................................................................700
Configuring Tunnel source anylocal Decapsulation................................................................................................ 700
Guidelines for Configuring Multipoint Receive-Only Tunnels................................................................................701
Multipoint Receive-Only Type and IP Unnumbered Interfaces for Tunnels...................................................... 701
Chapter 51: Upgrade Procedures............................................................................................... 702
Chapter 52: Virtual LANs (VLANs)............................................................................................. 703
Default VLAN................................................................................................................................................................... 703
Port-Based VLANs..........................................................................................................................................................704
VLANs and Port Tagging...............................................................................................................................................704
Configuration Task List..................................................................................................................................................705
Creating a Port-Based VLAN................................................................................................................................. 705
Assigning Interfaces to a VLAN.............................................................................................................................706
Moving Untagged Interfaces..................................................................................................................................707
Assigning an IP Address to a VLAN...................................................................................................................... 708
Configuring Native VLANs............................................................................................................................................708
Enabling Null VLAN as the Default VLAN................................................................................................................. 709
Chapter 53: Virtual Link Trunking (VLT).....................................................................................710
Overview............................................................................................................................................................................710
VLT on Core Switches...............................................................................................................................................711
Enhanced VLT............................................................................................................................................................. 711
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