Installation guide

Connectivity
1-4 Introduction
Connectivity
7G4202-72
The7G4202‐72has10BASE‐T/100BASE‐TX/1000BASE‐Tcompliantportsthrough72,fixedRJ45
frontpanelconnectors.
7G4282-49
The7G4282‐49(Figure 1‐1)supportsupto48,10BASE‐T/100BASE‐TX/1000BASE‐Tswitchedports
connectedthrough48,fixedRJ45frontpanelconnectors.IfaNEMisinstalled,additional
connectorsarealsoavailable,dependingontheNEMmodel.
Management
Managementofthemodulecanbeeitherin‐bandorout‐of‐band.In‐bandremotemanagementis
possibleusingTelnet,Enterasys Networks’NetSight
®
managementapplication,orWebView™
application.Out‐of‐bandmanagementisprovidedthroughtheRJ45COM(Communication)port
onthefrontpanelusingaVT100terminaloraVT100terminalemulator.
Switch Configuration Using WebView
Enterasys Networks’HTTP‐basedWebmanagementapplication(WebView)isanintuitiveweb
toolforsimplemanagementtasks.
Switch Configuration Using CLI Commands
TheCLIcommandsenableyoutoperformmorecompleteswitchconfigurationmanagement
tasks.
ForCLIcommandsetinformationandhowtoconfigurethemodule,refertotheEnterasysMatrix
DFE‐PlatinumSeriesConfigurationGuide.
Secure Networks Policy Support
PolicyEnabledNetworkingmanagestheallocationofnetworkinginfrastructureresourcesina
secureandeffectivemanner.UsingSecureNetworksPolicy,anITAdministratorcanpredictably
assignappropriateresourcestotheUsers,Applications,andServicesthatusethenetwork;while
blockingorcontainingaccessforinappropriateorpotentiallydangerousnetworktraffic.
Using
thistechnologyitispossible,forthefirsttime,toalignITserviceswiththeneedsofspecificusers
andapplications,andtoleveragethenetworkasakeycomponentoftheorganization’ssecurity
strategy.
TheSecureNetworksPolicyArchitectureconsistsof3components:ClassificationRules,Network
Services,andBehavioral
Profiles.Thesearedefinedasfollows:
• ClassificationRulesdeterminehowspecifictrafficflows(identifiedbyLayer2,Layer3,and
Layer4informationinthedatapacket)aretreatedbyeachSwitch orRouter.Ingeneral,
ClassificationRulesareappliedtothenetworkinginfrastructureatthenetworkedge/ingress
point.