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Structure of This Guide
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STRUCTURE OF THIS GUIDE
The guide is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, Introduction, provides an overview of the tasks that can be accomplished using the CLI
interface, an overview of local management requirements, and information about obtaining
technical support.
Chapter 2, Startup and General Configuration, provides an overview of the device’s factory
default settings and describes how to start the CLI interface, how to set basic system properties, how
to download a firmware image, how to configure WebView and Telnet, how to manage
configuration files, how to set the login password, how to exit the CLI, and how to prepare the
device for router mode operation.
Chapter 3, Port Configuration, describes how to review and configure console port settings, and
how to enable or disable switch ports and configure switch port settings, including port speed,
duplex mode, auto-negotiation, flow control, port mirroring, link aggegation and broadcast
suppression.
Chapter 4, SNMP Configuration, describes how to configure SNMP users and user groups, access
rights, target addresses, and notification parameters.
Chapter 5, Spanning Tree Configuration, describes how to review and set Spanning Tree bridge
parameters for the device, including bridge priority, hello time, maximum aging time and forward
delay; and how to review and set Spanning Tree port parameters, including port priority and path
costs.
Chapter 6, 802.1Q VLAN Configuration, describes how to create static VLANs, select the mode
of operation for each port, establish VLAN forwarding (egress) lists, route frames according to
VLAN ID, display the current ports and port types associated with a VLAN and protocol, create a
secure management VLAN, and configure ports on the device as GVRP-aware ports.
Chapter 7, Policy Classification Configuration, describes how to create, change or remove user
roles or profiles based on business-specific use of network services; how to permit or deny access
to specific services by creating and assigning classification rules which map user profiles to frame
filtering policies; how to classify frames to a VLAN or Class of Service (CoS); and how to assign
or unassign ports to policy profiles so that only ports activated for a profile will be allowed to
transmit frames accordingly.
Chapter 8, Port Priority and Rate Limiting Configuration, describes how to set the transmit
priority of each port, display the current traffic class mapping-to-priority of each port, set ports to
either transmit frames according to selected priority transmit queues or percentage of port
transmission capacity for each queue, and configure a rate limit for a given port and list of priorities.