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
Table 27: Recommended Auto-Negotiation configuration on 10/100/1000BASE-TX ports
Port on A Port on B Remarks Recommendations
Auto-Negotiation
enabled
Auto-Negotiation
enabled
Ports negotiate on highest
supported mode on both
sides.
Avaya recommends that
you use this configuration if
both ports support Auto-
Negotiation mode.
Full-duplex Full-duplex Both sides require the same
mode.
Avaya recommends that
you use this configuration if
you require full-duplex, but
the configuration does not
support Auto-Negotiation.
Auto-Negotiation cannot detect the identities of neighbors or shut down misconnected ports. Upper-
layer protocols perform these functions.
Note:
The 10 GigabitEthernet fiber-based I/O module ports can operate at either 1 Gigabit per second
(Gbps) or 10 Gbps, depending upon the capabilities of the optical transceiver that you install.
This presents an ambiguity with respect to the auto-negotiation settings of the port, while 1
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports require auto-negotiation; auto-negotiation is not defined and is
non-existent for 10 GbE ports.
For a 10GbE fiber-based I/O module, you have the capability to swap back-and-forth between 1
GbE and 10 GbE operation by simply swapping transceivers. To help with this transition
between 1 GbE and 10 GbE port operation, Avaya allows you to configure auto-negotiation
when you install a 10 GbE transceiver, even though auto-negotiation is not defined for 10GbE.
You can do this in anticipation of a port changeover from 10 GbE to 1 GbE. In this manner, you
can essentially pre-configure a port in 1 GbE mode while the 10 GbE transceiver is still
installed. The port is ready to go upon the changeover to the 1 GbE transceiver.
In addition, you can use a saved configuration file with auto-negotiation enabled, to boot a
system with either 10 GbE or 1 GbE transceivers installed. If you install a 1 GbE transceiver, the
system applies auto-negotiation. If you install a 10 GbE transceiver, the system does not
remove the auto-negotiation settings from the configuration, but the system simply ignores the
configuration because auto-negotiation settings are irrelevant to a 10 GbE transceiver. The
system preserves the saved configuration for auto-negotiation when re-saved no matter which
speed of transceiver you install.
SynOptics Network Management Protocol
The switch supports an auto-discovery protocol known as the SynOptics Network Management
Protocol (SONMP). SONMP allows a network management station (NMS) to formulate a map that
shows the interconnections between Layer 2 devices in a network. SONMP is also called Topology
Discovery Protocol (TDP).
Chassis operations
January 2017 Administering Avaya VSP 7200 Series and 8000 Series 70
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