Users 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.
Conguring Management Interfaces
The dedicated Management interface provides management access to the system.
You can congure this interface using the CLI, but the conguration options on this interface are limited. You cannot congure Gateway
addresses and IP addresses if it appears in the main routing table of Dell Networking OS. In addition, proxy ARP is not supported on this
interface.
To congure a management interface, use the following commands.
• Enter the slot and the port (1) to congure a Management interface.
CONFIGURATION mode
interface managementethernet interface
The slot range is 1.
The port range is 1.
• Congure 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 /prex format (/x).
Viewing Two Global IPv6 Addresses
Important Points to Remember — virtual-ip
You can congure 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 congure a third IPv6 address, an error message
displays. If you enable auto-conguration, all IPv6 addresses on that management interface are auto-congured. The rst IPv6 address that
you congure 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 two RPMs on the system, congure each Management interface with a dierent IP address. Unless you congure the
management route command, you can only access the Management interface from the local LAN. To access the Management
interface from another LAN, congure the
management route command to point to the Management interface.
Alternatively, you can use the virtual-ip command 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 is a CONFIGURATION mode 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 still recognizes the virtual-IP address.
• virtual-ip is a CONFIGURATION mode command.
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