User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Title
 - Notice
 - Contents
 - Figures
 - Tables
 - About This Guide
 - Introduction
 - Local Management Requirements
 - Accessing Local Management
- 3.1 Navigating Local Management Screens
 - 3.2 Password Screen
 - 3.3 Main Menu Screen
 - 3.4 Module Selection Screen
 - 3.5 Module Menu Screen
 - 3.6 Overview of Security Methods
 - 3.7 Security Menu Screen
 - 3.8 Passwords Screen
 - 3.9 Radius Configuration Screen
 - 3.10 Name Services Configuration Screen
 - 3.11 System Authentication Configuration Screen
 - 3.12 EAP (Port) Configuration Screen
 - 3.13 EAP Statistics Menu Screen
 - 3.14 MAC Port Configuration Screen
 - 3.15 MAC Supplicant Configuration Screen
 
 - Chassis Menu Screens
- 4.1 Chassis Menu Screen
 - 4.2 Chassis Configuration Screen
 - 4.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
 - 4.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
 - 4.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
 - 4.6 Chassis Environmental Information Screen
 - 4.7 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen (Chassis)
 - 4.8 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
 - 4.9 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
 
 - Module Configuration Menu Screens
- 5.1 Module Configuration Menu Screen
 - 5.2 General Configuration Screen
- 5.2.1 Setting the IP Address
 - 5.2.2 Setting the Subnet Mask
 - 5.2.3 Setting the Default Gateway
 - 5.2.4 Setting the TFTP Gateway IP Address
 - 5.2.5 Setting the Module Name
 - 5.2.6 Setting the Module Date
 - 5.2.7 Setting the Module Time
 - 5.2.8 Entering a New Screen Refresh Time
 - 5.2.9 Setting the Screen Lockout Time
 - 5.2.10 Configuring the COM Port
 - 5.2.11 Clearing NVRAM
 - 5.2.12 Enabling/Disabling IP Fragmentation
 
 - 5.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
 - 5.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
 - 5.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
 - 5.6 Access Control List Screen
 - 5.7 System Resources Information Screen
 - 5.8 FLASH Download Configuration Screen
 
 - Port Configuration Menu Screens
- 6.1 Port Configuration Menu Screen
 - 6.2 Ethernet Interface Configuration Screen
 - 6.3 Ethernet Port Configuration Screen
 - 6.4 HSIM/VHSIM Configuration Screen
 - 6.5 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen
 - 6.6 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
 - 6.7 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
 - 6.8 Link Aggregation Screen (802.3ad Main Menu Screen)
 - 6.9 Broadcast Suppression Configuration Screen
 
 - 802.1 Configuration Menu Screens
 - 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screens
- 8.1 Summary of VLAN Local Management
 - 8.2 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screen
 - 8.3 Static VLAN Configuration Screen
 - 8.4 Static VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
 - 8.5 Current VLAN Configuration Screen
 - 8.6 Current VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
 - 8.7 VLAN Port Configuration Screen
 - 8.8 VLAN Classification Configuration Screen
 - 8.9 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
 
 - 802.1p Configuration Menu Screens
- 9.1 802.1p Configuration Menu Screen
 - 9.2 Port Priority Configuration Screen
 - 9.3 Traffic Class Information Screen
 - 9.4 Traffic Class Configuration Screen
 - 9.5 Transmit Queues Configuration Screen
 - 9.6 Priority Classification Configuration Screen
 - 9.7 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
 - 9.8 Rate Limiting Configuration Screen
 
 - Layer 3 Extensions Menu Screens
 - Module Statistics Menu Screens
 - Network Tools Screens
 - VLAN Operation and Network Applications
- 13.1 Defining VLANs
 - 13.2 Types of VLANs
 - 13.3 Benefits and Restrictions
 - 13.4 VLAN Terms
 - 13.5 VLAN Operation
 - 13.6 Configuration Process
 - 13.7 VLAN Switch Operation
 - 13.8 VLAN Configuration
 - 13.9 Summary of VLAN Local Management
 - 13.10 Quick VLAN Walkthrough
 - 13.11 Examples
 - 13.12 Example 1, Single Switch Operation
 - 13.13 Example 2, VLANs Across Multiple Switches
 - 13.14 Example 3, Filtering Traffic According to a Layer 4 Classification Rule
 - 13.15 Example 4, Securing Sensitive Information According to Subnet
 - 13.16 Example 5, Using Dynamic Egress to Control Traffic
 - 13.17 Example 6, Locking a MAC Address to a Port Using Classification Rules
 
 - Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)
 - About IGMP
 - Index
 

Module Configuration Menu Screen
Module Configuration Menu Screens 5-3
Menu Descriptions
Refer to Table 5-1 for a functional description of each menu item. 
Table 5-1 Module Configuration Menu Screen Menu Item Descriptions
Menu Item Screen Function
GENERAL 
CONFIGURATION
Used to monitor and configure the switch module operating 
parameters. For details, refer to Section 5.2.
SNMP 
CONFIGURATION 
MENU
Used to access the SNMP Community Names Configuration, SNMP 
Traps Configuration, and Access Control List screens. These screens 
are used to modify SNMP community names, set SNMP traps and 
provide additional security while managing the modules. For details, 
refer to Section 5.3.
SYSTEM 
RESOURCES 
INFORMATION
Displays the CPU type used in the module and its operating speed; 
displays the size of each memory system used (FLASH memory, 
DRAM and NVRAM) in the module and the unused portion of each 
memory; and displays the current CPU (switch) utilization and the 
peak switch utilization. For details, refer to Section 5.7.
FLASH 
DOWNLOAD 
CONFIGURATION
Used to force the switch module to download a new image file from a 
TFTP server to its FLASH memory. For details, refer to Section 5.8.
To prevent passwords from being downloaded and overwriting the 
current passwords in memory, refer to the Security screen information 
described in Section 3.7.
PORT 
CONFIGURATION 
MENU
Used to select the screens for configuring the switch module ports. For 
details, refer to Section 6.1.
802.1 
CONFIGURATION 
MENU
Provides access to the Spanning Tree Configuration Menu screen, the 
802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu screen, and the 802.1p Priority 
Configuration Menu screen. For details, refer to Section 7.1.
LAYER 3 
EXTENSIONS 
MENU
Provides access to the IGMP/VLAN Configuration screen to configure 
ports and VLANs to operate according to the Internet Group 
Management Protocol (IGMP). For details, refer to Chapter 10.










