User manual ASUS GIGAX E1816

[. . . ] Centralized Network Management GigaX Smart Switch Management Software User's Manual E1816 / Oct 2004 Copyright Information No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL ASUS, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF USE OR DATA, INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS AND THE LIKE), EVEN IF ASUS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DEFECT OR ERROR IN THIS MANUAL OR PRODUCT. Product warranty or service will not be extended if: (1) the product is repaired, modified or altered, unless such repair, modification of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS; or (2) the serial number of the product is defaced or missing. [. . . ] They offer general settings for CNM. · · · The Topology item provides the general network discovery, manually add or delete switches, and load or save the current discovered topology. The Help item provides CNM information and instructions 4. 3. 1 Topology Figure 4. 5 Topology Topology is to control the actions of the topology frame. A couple of things you can do to the topology frame are listed as following: 3. Discovery: discover all GigaX Smart Switches in all networks that your CNM station is connecting to. Update: detect if the communications between the CNM station and the discovered switches is good or not. The switch icon will show to indicate that the communication is broken. GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 17 5. Select the network adapter you want the switch to attach to, give the switch MAC and name, and an authentication key as the password if you don't use the default one (2379), then click OK to finish the action. However, a manually added switch does not mean it can be configured or discovered by CNM. The function provides a way to add a known switch to topology list once the CNM cannot discover the switch. There is a tool bar button for it. . Figure 4. 6 Add Switch (GigaX 1024P) Figure 4. 6. 1 Add Switch (GigaX 1024I) 18 GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 6. Remove Switch: you can remove any switch in the topology list manually through this function. It pops out a switch list and check those switches you want to remove. Please refer to Figure 4. 7 for the switch list window. Figure 4. 7 Remove Switch 4. 3. 2 Setup Figure 4. 8. Setup CNM polls the switch status periodically, the polling interval can be adjusted. 1. The auto update time interval is used to poll the switch statistics and link status on the top of the window. There is a tool bar button for it. Figure 4. 9 Auto Update Time Interval GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 19 4. 4 Switch Topology The switch topology frame is on the left part of the CNM window. The switch topology shows the relationship among the switches in a tree view. That is, if a switch A has connections to switch B and your NIC, then a cascade tree will display as Figure 4. 10. Figure 4. 10 Switch Relationship In this way, you can find the relationship among the switch. You can assign a name to the switch by click the right button on the mouse while the mouse is point to the switch MAC address. Note: All the switch names are kept in CNM file, but not in the switches. So if you use CNM to manage the same switch on another management station, the name may be different because the switch does not keep its name. 4. 4. 1 Topology Discovery The topology discovery is done by user's request. This will reduce the network traffics since the discovery generates some packets to query the switches. 20 GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 4. 4. 2 Switch Add and Removal Discovery action will create the topology tree by all the discovered switches. Sometimes you may have a switch with another password that is different from the default one. [. . . ] VLAN Setup provides administers abilities to set up port-based and tag-based Vlan. Click Apply and then Vlan configuration will take effect. GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 35 Figure 4. 21 VLAN (GigaX 1024P) Figure 4. 21. 1 VLAN (GigaX 1024I) 36 GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management All VLAN behavior will be influenced by VLAN control option. Enable or disable these options carefully, these options are global setting for VLAN Figure 4. 22 VLAN Control Options 7. Unicast packet inter-VLAN leaky: to enable the packet to be forwarded to a destination port (L2 table hit) at different VLAN. [. . . ]