Admin Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: New in this document
- Chapter 3: Basic administration
- Chapter 4: System startup fundamentals
- Chapter 5: Boot parameter configuration using ACLI
- Chapter 6: Run-time process management using ACLI
- Chapter 7: Chassis operations
- Chassis operations fundamentals
- Chassis operations configuration using ACLI
- Enabling jumbo frames
- Configuring port lock
- Configuring SONMP
- Viewing the topology message status
- Associating a port to a VRF instance
- Configuring an IP address for the management port
- Configuring Ethernet ports with Autonegotiation
- Enabling channelization
- Configuring serial management port dropping
- Controlling slot power
- Enabling or disabling the USB port
- Chassis operations configuration using EDM
- Editing system information
- Editing chassis information
- Configuring system flags
- Configuring channelization
- Configuring basic port parameters
- Viewing the boot configuration
- Configuring boot flags
- Enabling Jumbo frames
- Configuring the date and time
- Associating a port to a VRF instance
- Configuring CP Limit
- Configuring an IP address for the management port
- Editing the management port parameters
- Configuring the management port IPv6 interface parameters
- Configuring management port IPv6 addresses
- Auto reactivating the port of the SLPP shutdown
- Editing serial port parameters
- Enabling port lock
- Locking a port
- Viewing power information
- Viewing power status on VSP 8400
- Viewing fan information
- Viewing topology status information
- Viewing the topology message status
- Configuring a forced message control pattern
- Chapter 8: Hardware status using EDM
- Chapter 9: Domain Name Service
- Chapter 10: Licensing
- Chapter 11: Network Time Protocol
- Chapter 12: Secure Shell
- Secure Shell fundamentals
- Secure Shell configuration using ACLI
- Downloading the software
- Enabling the SSHv2 server
- Changing the SSH server authentication mode
- Setting SSH configuration parameters
- Verifying and displaying SSH configuration information
- Connecting to a remote host using the SSH client
- Generating user key files
- Managing an SSL certificate
- Disabling SFTP without disabling SSH
- Enabling SSH rekey
- Configuring SSH rekey data-limit
- Configuring SSH rekey time-interval
- Displaying SSH rekey information
- Downgrading or upgrading from releases that support different key sizes
- Secure Shell configuration using Enterprise Device Manager
- Chapter 13: System access
- System access fundamentals
- System access configuration using ACLI
- Enabling ACLI access levels
- Changing passwords
- Configuring an access policy
- Specifying a name for an access policy
- Allowing a network access to the switch
- Configuring access policies by MAC address
- System access security enhancements
- Displaying the boot config flags status
- Enabling enhanced secure mode
- Creating accounts for different access levels
- Deleting accounts in enhanced secure mode
- Configuring a password for a specific user
- Returning the system to the factory defaults
- Configuring the password complexity rule
- Configuring the password length rule
- Configuring the change interval rule
- Configuring the reuse rule
- Configuring the maximum number of sessions
- Configuring the maximum age rule
- Configuring the pre- and post-notification rule
- System access configuration using EDM
- Chapter 14: ACLI show command reference
- Access, logon names, and passwords
- Basic switch configuration
- Current switch configuration
- CLI settings
- Ftp-access sessions
- Hardware information
- NTP server statistics
- Power summary
- Power information for power supplies
- System information
- System status (detailed)
- Telnet-access sessions
- Users logged on
- Port egress COS queue statistics
- CPU queue statistics
- Chapter 15: Port numbering and MAC address assignment reference
- Chapter 16: Supported standards, RFCs, and MIBs
- Glossary
Chapter 4: System startup fundamentals
This section provides conceptual material on the boot sequence and boot processes of the switch.
Review this content before you make changes to the configurable boot process options.
spbm-config-mode boot flag
Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) cannot interoperate with
each other on the switch at the same time. To ensure that SPB and PIM stay mutually exclusive, a
boot flag called spbm-config-mode is implemented.
• The spbm-config-mode boot flag is enabled by default. This enables you to configure SPB
and IS-IS, but you cannot configure PIM either globally or on an interface.
• If you disable the boot flag, save the config and reboot with the saved config. When the flag is
disabled, you can configure PIM and IGMP Snooping, but you cannot configure SPB or IS-IS.
Important:
Whenever you change the spbm-config-mode boot flag, you should save the configuration
and reboot the switch for the change to take effect.
For more information about this boot flag and Simplified vIST, see Configuring IP Multicast Routing
Protocols on Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7200 Series and 8000 Series, NN47227-504.
Boot sequence
The switch goes through a three-stage boot sequence before it becomes fully operational. After you
turn on power to the switch, the system starts.
The boot sequence consists of the following stages:
• Stage 1: Loading Linux on page 34
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Stage 2: Loading the primary release on page 35
• Stage 3: Loading the configuration file on page 35
The following figure shows a summary of the boot sequence.
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