Deployment Guide

Management Interfaces
The system supports the Management Ethernet interface as well as the standard interface on any port. You can use either
method to connect to the system.
Configuring Management Interfaces
The dedicated Management interface provides management access to the system.
You can configure this interface using the CLI, but the configuration options on this interface are limited. You cannot configure
Gateway addresses and IP addresses if it appears in the main routing table of Dell EMC Networking OS. In addition, proxy ARP is
not supported on this interface.
To configure a management interface, use the following commands.
● Enter the slot and the port (1) to configure a Management interface.
CONFIGURATION mode
interface managementethernet interface
The slot range is 1.
The port range is 1.
● Configure an IP address and mask on a Management interface.
INTERFACE mode
ip address ip-address mask
○ ip-address mask: enter an address in dotted-decimal format (A.B.C.D). The mask must be in /prefix format (/x).
You can configure two global IPv6 addresses on the system in EXEC Privilege mode. To view the addresses, use the show
interface managementethernet command, as shown in the following example. If you try to configure a third IPv6
address, an error message displays. If you enable auto-configuration, all IPv6 addresses on that management interface are
auto-configured. The first IPv6 address that you configure on the management interface is the primary address. If deleted, you
must re-add it; the secondary address is not promoted.
The following rules apply to having two IPv6 addresses on a management interface:
● IPv6 addresses on a single management interface cannot be in the same subnet.
● IPv6 secondary addresses on management interfaces:
○ across a platform must be in the same subnet.
○ must not match the virtual IP address and must not be in the same subnet as the virtual IP.
If there are 2 RPMs on the system, each Management interface must be configured with a different IP address. Unless the
management route command is configured, you can only access the Management interface from the local LAN. To access the
Management interface from another LAN, the management route command must be configured to point to the Management
interface.
Alternatively, you can use virtual-ip to manage a system with one or two RPMs. A virtual IP is an IP address assigned to the
system (not to any management interfaces) and CONFIGURATION command. When a virtual IP address is assigned to the
system, the active management interface of the RPM is recognized by the virtual IP address—not by the actual interface IP
address assigned to it. During an RPM failover, you do not have to remember the IP address of the new RPM’s management
interface— the system will still recognizes the virtual-IP address.
DellEMC#show interfaces managementethernet 1/1
ManagementEthernet 1/1 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is DellForce10Eth, address is 00:01:e8:a0:bf:f3
Current address is 00:01:e8:a0:bf:f3
Pluggable media not present
Interface index is 302006472
Internet address is 10.16.130.5/16
Link local IPv6 address: fe80::201:e8ff:fea0:bff3/64
Global IPv6 address: 1::1/
Global IPv6 address: 2::1/64
Virtual-IP is not set
Virtual-IP IPv6 address is not set
MTU 1554 bytes, IP MTU 1500 bytes
LineSpeed 1000 Mbit, Mode full duplex
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:06:14
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