HP Hub Switch Management User Manual

HP Hub & Switch Management for OV -UX

User Guide

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Publication N umber

Edition 2 February 1999

Applicable Product

HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-U X J3250N

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Contents

1 Informa tion About HP Hub & Swit ch Ma nagem ent fo r OV-

Introduct ion Features of HP Hu b & Switch Managemen t

HP Proactive Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Support for New Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Technical Product Support

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2 Before Installing HP Hub & Switch Management for OV -

Support Information Management Station Requirements Required Network Configuration Required Patches Before Installing HP Hub & Switch Management Removing HP Hub & Switch Management

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3 Intr oduction to HP Hu b & Sw itch Management

HP Hub & Switch Management Overview HP OpenView Network Management P la tform

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Definitions, Processes, and Files

SNMP Manager and Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Community Names for Manager and Agent Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

What HP Devic e s Can Be Mana ged

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4 Running H P Hub & Switc h Managemen t

Starting the Mana ger Application

Starting HP OpenView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

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Verifying Installation of the Manager Product Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Stopping and Restarting the Manager Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Stopping the Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Restarting the Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

5 Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

HP Proactive Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Uptime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Interpreting the Alert Log - Find/Fix/Inform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

6 Accessing Hub Features

More Information on D evice Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Accessing the Device View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Viewing Devic e I dentity Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Interpreting Device Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Reading the Performance Gauges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Status - Global Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

Status - Port Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Configuring Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Configuration - Fault Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Configuration - System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Configuring IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Configuration - Backup Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Configuring Load Balancing - Switching Hubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

Configuration - Support URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

7 Managing Switch es

Swi t c h Stat us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Status - Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Status - Port Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

Status - Port Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Device View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Configuration - Fault Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6

Configuration - System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

Configuration - IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

Configuration - Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Configuration - Assigning a Monitoring Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Configuration - Device Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

Automatic Broadcast Control (ABC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14

The Spanning Tree Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15

Configuration - Support/Mgmt URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

8 Setting Up Security for a Device

Device Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1

Manager/Operator Pas sword Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

The Function of Community Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3

Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Address Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Authorized Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

Eavesdrop Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

Send Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

Disable Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

Set Security P oli cy for Selec ted Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

The Intrusion Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7

9 Performing Diagnostics

Performing a Ping/Link Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1

Rebooting a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2

Resetting a Hub to Factory Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3

Producing a Configuration Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3

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10 HP Hub & Switch Mana gement Admin

Starting HP Hub & Switch Management Admin HP Admin Parameters

Network Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6

User Interface Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7

Graph Options Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-9

Printer Configuration Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10

OpenView Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11

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11 Man agement for Non-Browse rable Devices

About Closeup Views

Displaying the Closeup View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2

Closeup View Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3

Overv iew of Toolbar Functions

Configuration Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-8

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Appendix A

Agent Firmware Versions

Verifying Device Agent Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

Preparing Network Devic e s

Device Network Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Globally Assigned IP Network Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

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Configuring IP Parameters

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Information About HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-UX

This chapter includes:

■ Introduction

■ Features of HP Hub & Switch Management

■ Technical Product Support

Introduction

This guide will help you use HP Hub & Switch Management for basic management of HP network devices.

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Informatio n Ab out HP Hub &

We assume that you are a knowledgeable HP-UX system and network administrator , and have s upervisory access to yo ur network system and devices. For example, you should know the following:

■ how to update your HP-UX system with new software

■ how to kill processes

■ how to write scripts

■ how to modify X Window/Motif resources

■ how to view, search, an d edit files

You should understand the functions and correct operation of your network devices, such as hubs, bridges, routers, and switches. Y our s ystem should be set up to support the use of the HP OpenView platform and HP Hub & Switch Management. You should al re ad y hav e the appro priate network software running and know how to use your network utilities.

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Features of HP Hub & Switch Management

This section prese nts s ome of t he featur es that a re included i n th is ver sion o f HP Hub & Switch Management.

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HP Proactive Networking

HP Proactive Networking offers the combined benefits of outstanding products and effective, easy-to-u se network management that provide you with the control, uptime and performance your network needs.

Control

■ Increases visibility into the network by monitoring all segments and

displaying network performance information

■ Provides Anywhere Management with an easy- to -use Web browser inter-

face

■ Is compatible with other vendor’s products

Uptime

■ Finds and fixes common network problems, then informs the network

administrator

■ Provides high availability and high performance

• Switch meshing for switching

• Cisco Fast EtherChannel

■ Standards-based products

■ Lifetime warranty (for as long as you own the product) and free end-user

telephone support

for servers

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Performance

■ Award winning products

■ Large capacity “pipes” (up to 20 Gbps) between switches

■ Provides high availability and high performance

• Switch meshing for switching

• Cisco Fast EtherChannel

for servers

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Feature s of HP Hub & Switch Managem ent

■ Scalable solution s fro m 10 Mbps to Gigabit Ethernet

■ Blocks unwanted traffic with Protocol Filtering

HP Proactive Networking products save time, money and increase productivity. The agent-enabled, web-based management component of Proactive Networking is embedded in newly introduced HP managed hubs and switches. It consists of a Java-based W eb agent and an embedded web server. In the past, if you wanted to see a graphical representation of your network or get devicespecific informa tion, you had to fir st load management s oftware on a specif ic station and then be at that station to view the screen s.

Y ou can now use most W e b browsers that supports Java and frames. There i s no need to learn a new applicati on . You see the same interface w ith the s ame look and feel —Java is operating-system independent. You can use a Web browser on any networked computer, day or night, to configure, control, and monitor networking devices (managed hubs and switches), and to query faults from any of these devices. You will immediately see the reduced cost of ownership, since the devices can be managed with minimal effor t any time, anywhere, and with any platform.

Using your Web browser, you can now perform network management functions for several HP devices .

Note: The device must have an IP addr ess in order to be managed with a browser. The management station must also have an IP address.

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Support for N ew Devices

For information on new devices supported by this version of HP Hub & Switch Management, see the Release Notes included on the product CD. (For product version number, see the product CD or the inside of the cover page of this manual .

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Technical Product Support

Technical Pr odu ct Sup por t

Product support is available on the World Wide Web. The URL is:

http://www.hp.com/go/procurve

Click on Support. The information available at this site includes:

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■ HP network device MIBs

■ HP network device firmware

■ HP Hub & Switch Management frequently asked questions

In addition, you can call your HP Author ized Dealer or the nearest HP Sales and Support Office.

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Before Installing HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-UX

This chapter includes:

■ Support Information

■ Management Station Requirements

■ Hardware Requirements

■ Software Requiremen ts

■ Required Network Configuration

■ Before Installing HP Hub & Switch Management

■ Removing HP Hub & Switch Management

It is assumed that your network devices are properly set up.

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Support Information

If you have difficulty installing or using this product, call your HP Authorized Dealer or the nearest HP Sales and Support Office. You can also obtain information by accessing th e HP World Wide Web p ages at the following URL:

http://www.hp.com/go /p r o cu rve

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Management Station Requirements

Management St ation Re quirements

Hardware

The following table shows the reco mmendati o n s for HP9000 hardware.

HP 9000 Systems with HP-UX 10.20 or 11. 00

Models all (except 705 with Series 700)

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Memory (minimum megabytes)

Disk Space (minimum megabytes**)

Monitor Color with at least 1280 x 1024 resolution Colo r pl an es 8 Mouse Yes * The larg er your IP network or the more HP OpenView Windows (

the more memory you will need. A good guideline is 10 megabyte s for every additi onal 500 nodes, or 25 mega byt es of memor y f or ever y a ddi tio nal

**Includes HP OpenView Netw ork Node Manager.

64 MB*

150 MB

) sessions you run,

ovw

session t ha t y ou e xpect t o r un.

ovw

Software

The following table s hows the software that must be installed, configured, and verified to run properly prior to installing HP Hub & Switch Management. These prerequisites assume that you are running a single HP OpenView Windows (ovw) session.

HP 9000 Systems

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OS version HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00

OS configured sw ap space (minimum megabytes)

Type of window so ftware X Window with OSF/ Motif/CDE LAN software LAN/Link for HP 9000 & ARPA Services/9000

120 MB*

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* The more OpenView Windows (ovw) sessions you run, the more OS configured swap space wil l be necessary. A good guidel ine is to config ure 25 megabytes of swap space for each additional ovw session that you expect to run.

Required Networ k Config ura t ion

The installation starts the automatic discovery and layout of the network map, based on your internetwork's IP addressing scheme. This depends on the following:

■ Correct IP addressing. The IP addresses and subnet masks must be

correctly conf igu red on the manager station, and on all routers and gateway hosts that support SNMP . Otherwise, the automatically generated map could contain incorrect networks with nodes from outside the administrative domain.

■ Network design that aids isolation of network faults and traffic, by doing

the following:

• Logically subdividing an internetwork into manageable-sized networks and subnetworks, using routers, gateway hosts and IP subnet addressing.

• Physically subdividing networks and subnetworks into manageablesized segments using hubs, bridges, and gateway hosts. HP recommends that the segments have no more than 200 nodes each.

■ SNMP-based, MIB-I (RFC 1156) or MIB-II (R FC 1213 ) compl ian t agen ts

running on management stations, routers, and gateway hosts at a minimum, and running on bridges and hubs for manageable segments. This ensures speed and accu ra cy of ma p generation.

■ All HP 9000 Systems (manager statio ns or hosts) that are running HP-UX

version 10.20 or HP-UX version 11.00 should also be running the HP OpenView SNMP Agent software as part of their networking software.

■ All managed HP devices should contain a supported version of agent

firmware.

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Required Patches

The following patches must be installed before installing HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-UX. Contact your HP Authorized Dealer or the nearest HP Sales and Support Office, or download the patches from the HP Electronic Support Center. The URL is:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com

The two patches are:

■ For HP-UX 10.20 — PHSS_150 43 S700_8 00 10.x HP aC++ runtim e libr ary

components (A.01.15)

■ For HP-UX 11.00 — S700_80 0 11.00 HP aC++ runtime l ibrary com ponents

(A.03.10)

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Before you can begin installing HP Hub & Switch Management, you must have successfully completed installing your Network Node Manager product. See the HP OpenView Network Node Manager Products Installation Guide for instructions on installing the HP Network Node Manager and obtaining your software license.

You may set up multiple manager stations on your network. Each manager on which you install the manager product set does its own polling, so the manager traffic on your network will increase i n proportion to the number of managers.

Note: This applies only if you buy multiple copies. Your license only entitles you to install one copy.

If you are installing this product set on a workstation with an existing application, be sure you first exit any ovw sessions currently running, then stop all HP OpenView processes using the ovstop command (available to root user).

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Removing HP Hub & Switch Managemen t

Note: It is also a good practice to make a backup of your current OpenView application (especially your network map) before proceeding with the installation of new applications.

Installation Directories

The HP Hub & Switch Management product is installed in the following directories:

• /var/opt/HPASA

• /opt/HPASA

In compliance with the OSF standards, the /opt/HPASA directories hold the read-only files, which include all the executables, libraries, release notes, and Device Model Files. The /var/opt/HPASA directories contain the writeable directories such as product data directories. Be sure you have the required amount of free disk space before you install the products. You can make one of the following arrangements for the required space:

• having the required amount of disk space in /opt and /var

• mounting a dedicated volume for /var/opt/HPASA and

/opt/HPASA

• making /var/opt/HPASA and /opt/HPASA symbolic links to a file system with enough disk space.

The management system must have both manager and agent software installed.

Make sure the drive that you will be loading fr om is connected to the workstation and tha t your wor k station is configured to recognize the CDROM drive.

Consult the README file on the HP Hub & Switch Management CD for installation procedures.

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Removin g HP Hub & Sw it ch Management

If necessary, you can remove products that you installed by using the command that is appropriate for your operating system. You must be logged on as root and you must remo ve th em in th e reverse order that you installed

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Removing HP Hub & Switch Management

them, that is, remove Hub & Switch Management firs t, then remove Networ k Node Manager and/or the SNMP Management Platform.

Instructions are given here for removing the Hub & Switch Management product. If you want to remove Network Node Manager, see the HP OpenView Network Node M a nager Products In stallati on Guide.

To remove products for HP-UX 10.20 or 11.00, use the HP System Administration Manager.

1. Select Software Management

2. Select Remove Software

3. Select Remove Local Host Softwar e

4. Highlight the program you want to remove and pick the appropriate action from the Actions menu.

If you used the “install” command to install the software, you can also use this method for removing it:

1. Mount the Hub & Switch Management p roduct CD in your CD-ROM drive .

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2. Type in the command:

./remove

This command will remove the Hub & Switch Management files and its directories. The swinstall command only removes the program files.

Note: The remove command only works with current Hub & Switch Management products.

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Introduction to HP Hub & Switch Management

This chapter introduces HP Hub & Switch Management and includes the following topics:

■ HP Hub & Switch Management Overview

■ HP OpenView Network Management Platform

■ Definitions, Processes, and Files

■ What Devices Can Be Managed

HP Hub & Sw itch Management Overv iew

HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-UX is a network management application that al lo ws yo u to manage and control Hewlett-Packard (HP) hubs, bridges, and switches on a TCP/IP network. HP Hub & Switch Management runs on the HP OpenView platform, which allows multivendor enterprise-wide networ k management. For communications with managed devices, Hub & Switch Management uses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)—an industry standard network management communications protocol.

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HP Hub & Switch Management is integrated with HP OpenView Network Node Manager application s.

When using Hub & Switch Management, you can do the following:

■ use HP OpenVi ew functions to auto mati cally discover and d isplay the IP

map (and submaps). HP hubs, bridges, and switches that are set up for SNMP/IP operation w ill b e displ ayed as ap propriat e “ connecto r” devices .

■ use your Web browser to launch Device Views for Proactive network

management

■ manage HP hub and switch security featur es

■ run network tests to troubleshoot network or device problems

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HP OpenView Netw ork Management Platform

HP OpenView Network Management Platform

HP OpenView is a “platform” for network management applications. As a platform, it allows multiple network management applications that are OpenView compliant—such as HP Hub & Switch Managemen t—to share platform functionality and a common display.

Using the HP OpenView, Network Node Manager provides many shared management functio ns, wh ich include:

■ automatic discovery and mapping of IP networks and objects

■ dynamic submap creatio n

■ map navigation Tool Bar

■ Quick Navigator

■ a map zoom viewer

■ device polling to monitor devices on an OpenView map

■ an event notificati on and loggin g system

■ generic SNMP device management

■ graphing and logging of traffic

■ client/se rver archi tectur e enabli ng proces ses to be run o n other workst a-

tions

For more information on HP OpenView platform operation and functions, refer to the HP OpenView Network Node Manager documentation.

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Definitions, Processes, and Files

The basic concepts and processes of management for networks are described briefly in the following paragraphs.

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Definiti ons, Processes, and Files

SNMP Manager and Agents

HP Hub & Switch Management uses SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) to communicate with managed d evices. SNMP commands are transmitted and received on the network using the Inte rnet Protocol (IP).

The network management station used to run Hub & Switch Management is referred to as an SNMP manager system. HP devices with SNMP agents are called agent systems. Each network management operation requested by the manager system is executed by one or more agent systems.

The manager system communicates with HP devices to retrieve or modify management informati on. The devices contain Network Management SNMP Agent software to support this communication.

Note: For Hub & Switch Management operation, you must set up HP network devices for SNMP/IP operation. See Appendix A for more information.

Communit y Na mes for Manager and Agent Interaction

Most SNMP exchanges involve a community name, which can be thought of as a password for a managed device or gro up of dev ices.

Depending on the device, SNMP get requests for information from a devi ce agent may require the manager to suppl y a community name that is configured on the device.

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If a password has been specif ically configured on a devic e, th en pa ssword authentication i s required to perform any SNMP set operations that alter the configuration or invoke self-test or reset on that device. The manager system automatically asks you for the password, then puts the encrypted password in the community name field of subsequent set operations.

Configuring a password on HP devices is recommended but not required. As described late r in this manual, you can use Hub & Switch Manageme nt to set a device password.

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What HP Devices Can Be Managed

For device management, HP Hub & Switch Management provi de s a Device View for most managed HP devices.

Y ou can display a Device View using your browser if this feature is supported for the device. The devices that support this feature are noted in the table below.

Table 3-1. HP EtherTwist Devices that Can be Managed

EtherTwist Device EtherTwist Device

HP 28688A/B EtherTwist Hub Plus (12 -port)

HP 28699A EtherTwist Hub Plus/48

HP J2355A Ethe rTwist Hub Plus/24S

HP 28682A Fiber-Optic Hub Plus

HP 28692A ThinLAN Hub Plus

HP 28674B Remote Bridge RB

HP 28673A 10:10 LAN Bridge

Table 3-2. HP AdvanceStack and ProCurve Devices That C an be Managed

HP AdvanceStack Family of Hubs and Switches

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HP J2410A Advanc eStack 1 00 VG Hub -15

HP J2413A Advanc eSt ack 100VG Hub -7M

HP J2415A Advan ceStac k 100 VG Hub -14

HP J2600A AdvanceStack 10Ba se-T Hub-

Note 2

12 HP J2601A/B AdvanceStack 10Base-T

Note 2

Hub-24

Note 1

HP Procurve Family of Hubs and Switches

HP J3288A HP ProCurve 10/100 Hub

Note 5

12M

Note

HP J3289A HP ProCurve 10/100 Hub

Note 5

12M HP J3298A HP Procurve Switch 212M

(Browser-manageable) HP J3299A HP Pr oCurve Switch 224M

(Browser-manageable) HP J4093 A HP ProCurve Switch 2 424M

(Browser-manageable)

Note

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Table 3-2. HP AdvanceStack and ProCurve Devices That C an be Managed

HP J2602A/B AdvanceStack 10Base-T

Note 2

Hub-48 HP J2610A/B 10Base-T Hub-8U

HP J2611A/B 10Base-T Hub-16U

HP J2631A 10Base-T Hub-24 (SNMP

Note2

bundle) HP J2632A 10Base-T Hub-48 (SNMP

Note2

bundle) HP J2980A Advan ceStack 10/ 100 LAN Swi tch-

Note4

Note 3

Note3

HP J3100A/B AdvanceStack Switch 2000

HP J3100B is brows er-manageabl e (firmware B.04.xx)

HP J3101A Ad vanceStack Switc h 2000 Bundl e HP J3125A AdvanceStack Switch 200 HP J3126A AdvanceStack Switch 100 HP J3174A AdvanceStack Switch 208T HP J3177A AdvanceStack Switch 224T

Note 5

Note 6

HP J4110A HP Pr oCurve Switch 8000 (Browser-manageable)

HP J4210A HP Pr oCurve Switch 1600 (Browser-manageable)

HP J4121A HP Pr oCurve Switch 4000M (Browser-manageable)

HP J4122A HP Pr oCurve Switch 2400M (Browser-manageable)

HP J4138A HP ProCurve Routing Switch

Note 5

9308M HP J4139A HP ProCurve Routing Switch

9304M

(Browser-manageable)

Note 5

(Browser-manageable)

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HP J3200A AdvanceStack 10Ba se-T Switching Hub-12R

Note 7

Browser-manageable (firmwar e A.03.xx)

HP J3202A AdvanceStack 10Ba se-T Switching Hub-24R

Note 7

Browser-manageable (firmwar e A.03.xx)

HP J3204A AdvanceStack 10Ba se-T Switching Hub-24T

Note 7

Browser-manageable (firmwar e A.03.xx)

HP J3222A AdvanceStack 100 Base-T Hub-

Note 8

12TXM

Browser-manageable

HP J3245A AdvanceStack Switch 800T

Browser-manageable (firmwar e B.04.xx)

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Table 3-2. HP AdvanceStack and ProCurve Devices That C an be Managed

HP J3301A AdvanceStack 10Base-T Hub 12M

Browser-manageable (firmwar e A.01.xx)

HP J3303A AdvanceStack 10Base-T Hub 24M

Browser-manageable (firmwar e A.01.xx)

Note 1

Optional SNMP module for HP 100 VG hubs is J2414A or J2414B

Note 2

Optional SNMP module for 10Base-T hubs is J2603A/B. HP AdvanceStack 10Base-T

hubs provided with SNMP module preinstalled include: HP J2630A (12 -port), HP J2631A/B (24-por t), HP J2632A/B (48-port).

Note 3

SNMP module J3133A availa ble for J2610B and J2611B.

Note 4

HP J2980A 10/100 LAN Switch-16 is not supported on IPX netw orks. To discover this

device on an IP network, the SNM P com m unity nam e “public” must be configured on the device. 100VG module J2981A and 100BaseTX module J2984A available for HP J2980A.

Note 5

No IPX Network Management support.

Note 6

Requires Management Module J3178A.

Note 7

Requires Management Module J3210A.

Note 8

No Closeup View provided. Use telnet.

Note

HP AdvanceStack hubs can be chained together on a non-network connection called a Distributed Management Cha in . F or Hub & Switch Management to access a chain of AdvanceStac k hubs, at least one hu b in the chain must contain an SNMP module. Chained hubs must be of the same media type (100VG or 10Base-T). For mor e info rmation, refer to th e d evice's installation and reference manual.

For general managemen t of generic SNMP devices (from HP and other vendors), use the HP OpenView Network Node Manager functions (such as

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SNMP Configuration and SNMP MIB Browser).

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Running HP Hub & Switch Management

This chapter describes how to start and stop HP Hub & Switch Management. It includes the following topics:

■ Starting the Manager Application

■ Verifying Installation of the Manager Product Set

■ Stopping and Restarting the Manager Application

Note: Before you begin, you should ensure that the network devices are properly set up for IP operation. For information on setting up HP network devices, see

Appendix A

Starting the Manager Application

The entire product set that you have installed is started as one application, “the manager”, on your management station. In other words, HP Hub & Switch Management starts alon g with Networ k Node Manager.

Starting HP OpenView

Do the following steps to start your product.

1. Add /opt/OV/bin to your path using one of the commands below. Note that you only need to do this the first time you start the HP OpenView manager software.

For These Shells Use These Commands

/bin/ksh or /bin/shPATH=$PATH:/opt/OV/bin:/usr/sbin

export PATH

/bin/csh setenv PATH “$PATH:/opt/OV/bin:/usr/

sbin”

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Starting the Manager Application

2. Optionally, execute the /opt/OV/bin/ovstatus command to verify that the trapd, ovwdb, ovtopmd, and netmon background processes are running. If the background processes are not running, execute the /opt/OV/bin/ovstart command. If you are surprised that a background process is not running, run ovstart -v, which gives you more information. The ovstart command starts the background processes. (You must be root to perform this step.)

3. If you are not running X Windows (X Windows, HP VUE or HP CDE for HP-UX syst e ms), start it.

4. Optionally, if you want to redirect your X Windows display to a system other than the management system:

a. Set your X Windows DISPLAY v ariable on the HP OpenView network

management system using o n e of the comma nds bel o w. Replace hostname with the host name of the system to which you are redirecting the display.

For these shells Use these commands

/bin/ksh or /bin/shDISPLAY=hostname:0.0

export DISPLAY

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/bin/csh setenv DISPLAY hostname:0.0

5. Make sure that the management system has permission to display windows on hostname. If the management sy stem does not have permission, and if the hostname is using the host-based authorization, use the xhost command to add the management system to the xhost table on the hostname system. To do so, on hostname type:

xhost + <managementsystem name>

where managementsystem name i s the host name of the management system. If the hostname is using the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization, please refer to the xauth man pages to set up the .Xauthority file.

6. Start the graphical networ k map (user inter face) by typing:

ovw

ovw is executable by anyone.

Management

Alternatively, you can ru n ovw in the background to free up the terminal window for other uses. In some cases, ovw prints error messages to standard output and standard error. To capture these messages and to

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prevent jobs from stopping, you may want to redirect messages to a temporary file. To run ovw in the background and to redirect error messages to a temporary file, type

ovw > /tmp/ovw.log 2>&1 &

This starts up the entire product set you have installed. The graphical network map will be generated in a window, with the HP Hub & Switch Management menu items available in the pull-down menus from the menu bar.

For more information, refer to the HP OpenView Network Node Manager Reference and the various man pages on the processes.

Verifying Installation of the Manager Product Set

If the products are installed properly, you should find the menu items associated with HP hubs, bridges, and switches under the “Options” and “Monitor” menus. The Menu items that Hub & Switch Management adds to Network Node Manager are shown in the following table.

Table 4-1. OpenView Menu Items

OpenView Menu

Monitor HP Hub/Switch

Menu Item added by HP Hub & Switch Management

Description

Monitor HP Hub/Switch

control panel (Close up View) of a selected (IPaddress ed) HP hub, bridg e, or switch.

SNMP Configur ation

the following on the devices that can be managed wit h a browser:

Threshol ds Trap Receivers Community Names Authorized Managers

: Displays a graphical

: Allows you to configure

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Table 4-1. OpenView Menu Items

OpenView Menu

Options HP Hub & Switch

Menu Item added by HP Hub & Switch Management

Admin

Description

Runs the HP Admin utility for setting Hub & Switch Management parameters.

Note: For information on setting up network devices for IP operation, see Appendix A.

Stopping and Restarting the Manager Application

Stopping the Manager

Stopping the manager consists of:

1. Exiting the manager' s graphical network map and user interf ace, and

2. Optionally stopping the manager's background processes.

To exit from the network map and interface (ovw ), select Exit in the map's File menu.

Running HP Hub & Switch

If you want the manager to continuously collect data and monitor changes even when the map and interface are not up (that is, even if you exit from ovw), do step 1 and not step 2. The background processes—netmon, trapd, ovwdb, ovtopmd, and snmpCollect—will continue to run and you need only run /opt/OV/bin/ovw to return to the map and interface. For more information on these background processes, refer to the HP Open Vie w Network Node Manager Reference manual or read the man page for the process.

If you want to stop the background processes, use the command /opt/OV/ bin/ovstop. Using ovstop without arguments stops all of the processes—netmon, trapd, ovwdb, ovtopmd, and snmpCollect—in the correct order.

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Restarting the Mana ger

If you have stopped the background processes and you want to restart them, use the command /opt/OV/bin/ovstart.

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Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

HP Proactive Networking

Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

This chapter contains information on:

■ HP Proactive Networking

■ Interpreting the Alert Log

HP Proactive Netw or kin g

Note: Device s th at are mana g eabl e w ith y ou r Web browser feat ure HP Proactive Network ing. For older HP devices, read the chapter “Managem e nt fo r No n-B rows e ra bl e Dev i ces” or see the on l ine hel p .

Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

Control

Control with Manag e ment.

■ Increased visibility into the network by monitoring all segments and

displaying network performance information

■ Compatibility with other vendor’s products

Control with Technologies.

on emerging technologies. Tw o principal emerging technologies that HP provides are:

■

Gigabit Ethernet.

and 100Base-T. It is the high-performance network of the future.

Improve control of your network with:

For your future network, you will need to rely

This technology is the natural evolution of 10Base-T

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HP Proactive Networking

■ Advanced Switching. New switching techniques like meshing, VLAN

tagging, and voice and data handling provide high performance networking for the future.

Control of Costs. HP provides Total Cost of Ownership benefits by focusing on “out-of-the-box” manageability based on a combination of HP Top Tools for Hubs & Switches and management-enabled hardware.

Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

Uptime

Find, Fix, Inform. The Find /F ix /Info rm feature of HP Proactive Networking discovers, corrects, and reports on problems that occur on the network. The three parts are:

■ Hardware Age nt . The hardware agent monitors the network continu-

ously , automatically balancing traffic and finding and fixing most common network problems.

■ Management Software. The Web browser-based user interface provides

a consistent, friendly environment for monitoring your network.

■ Network Manager. HP Hub and Switch Management for OV-UX helps

you achieve maximum control, uptime, and performance by letting you manage the network anytime, anywhere.

Quality and Reliability. High quality, reliab le HP pr oducts will help keep your network running into the next century . HP’s Quality of Service provides service-l evel gu arantees for mission crit ical applications and multimedia communication applications.

Best Warranty and Support. HP products are backed by a lifet ime warranty (for as long as you own the product) and free end-user telephone support. Every HP Proactive Networking product is Year 2000 ready.

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Performance

Bandwidth Performance. Vi deo and multime dia applic ations req uire large amounts of bandwidth. HP has these solutions to meet your bandwidth needs:

■ A line of high-speed hubs and switches that deliver extensive bandwidth

to the desktop. HP hubs and switches use industry-standard Ethernet technology with its lo w cos t and s calability from 10 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps.

■ Protocols and product software that control bandwidth utilization and

improve information delivery

■ Backbones that are fast, reliable and robust

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■ Switch meshing for switching

■ Cisco Fast EtherChannel

for servers

HP Proactive Networking products save time, money and increase productivity.

Interpreting the Alert Log - Find/Fix/ Inform

The Alert Log is displayed in th e lower area of the device’s Status - Overview page. Its “Find/Fix/ Inform” (patent pending) capability helps you proactively manage your network by displaying device traps and problem conditions in one easily accessible browser page. It displays messages ab out events that have occurred on the device, such as loss of link, a problem cable, or a broadcast storm. Select Open Event or double-click on an alert to display more information.

The dialog box displays more inf orm atio n ab out the alert as well as some suggestions for fixing th e problem. When you have reviewed an alert, the “New” icon i s no longer disp layed. Closin g an alert indicates that it is no longer a problem.

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The following table shows the common faults and how they are ind icated.

Table 5-1. Find/Fix/Inform Faults

Problem How the Problem is Indicated

Fault 1: Problem Driver or Network Interfa ce Ca r d (N IC )

Fault 2: Problem XCVR or NIC Indicated by long packe ts with bad CRCs. Fault 3: Problem Cable Indicated by normal size packets with CRC

Fault 4. Cable Length/Repeater Ho ps Indicated by late collision s. Fault 5: Over Bandwidth Indicated by a high collision rate. Fault 6: Broadcast Storm Indicated by a high rate of broadcast packets.

Indicated by long or shor t packets with good CRCs.

errors.

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Table 5-1. Find/Fix/Inform Faults

Problem How the Problem is Indicated

Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

Fault 7: Auto Partit ion (hubs only) Indicated by a port repeatedly partitioning and

healing due to a network loop or problem cable.

Fault 8: M isconfigur ed SQE (hub only) Indicates a misconfigured transceiver detected

by internal hardware.

Fault 9: Polarity re versal (hub only) Indica tes a m is-wired cable det ected by internal

hardw a re.

Fault 10: Network Loops I ndicated by a high traff ic level in correlation

with duplicate traffic on the network.

Fault 11: Link Loss Lost link beat to a cascad e port.

The Find/Fix/Inform function runs continuously in the background at a sensitivity threshold level that you select. Sensi tivity t hreshold settings control the severity of the alerts tha t are displayed. The settings internally adjust the counter thresholds automatically.

Sensitivity settings are sele cted in the Configura tion page for the devi ce. Select the Fault Detection button. For hubs, you can set the sensitivity for logging network problems and disabling ports. Switches only have a sensitivity setting for logging network problems. Switches are more capable of isolating problems occurring on a single port than hubs are.

The sensitivity settings are:

■ High Sensitivity: the device will act when a network problem of any

severity occurs. Network problems are automatically detected and entered into the Alert Log (loc ated under th e Status Tab).

■ Medium Sensitivity: the device will act when serious network problems

occur .

■ Low Sensitivity: the device wil l act onl y when severe n etwork pr oblems

occur. These are problems that may br ing the network down.

■ Never: The device will never take any actions regardless of the severity

of the problem.

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Only serious and persistent problems that impact other users on the network will cause a hub to disable a port. These problems in clu d e:

■ A problem XCVR or NIC

■ A broadcast storm

■ Excessive Auto Part itions

■ A network loop

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■ Full/Half-duplex mismatch

A warning is entered in the Alert Log shortl y before the port is disabled. Another entry is made indicatin g th at th e p ort has been d isabled.

Acknowledging Events. Click on the Ackn ow ledge Selected Events button to indicate that you have seen the alert. Acknowledging an alert changes its state from new to open.

Closing Event s. To close an alert an d remove it from the Alert Log, select the alert and click on the Close Events button.

Sorting Event s . Double-click on the column head to sort the alerts according to severity, the name of the alert, the address of the device, or the date and time of the alert.

Deleting Events. Click on the Delete Selected Events button to remove these alerts from the Alert Log.

First Time Installation Information. There will be an entry in the Alert Log for first time installation information for the device.

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Accessing Hub Features

HP Hub & Switch Management lets you manage your HP devices with your browser from anywhere in your network. Several features provide information about the status of your device, alert you to problems in your network, and give you the ability to configure settings for proactive network management.

Note: For older HP devices that cannot be managed with a Web browser, read the chapter “Management for Non-Browserab le Devices” or see the online help.

This section incl u de s information on:

■ Accessing the Devic e View

■ Viewing Device Identity Information

■ Interpreting Device Status

■ Reading the Performance Gau ges

■ Status - Global Counters

■ Configuring Your Device

■ Fault Detection

■ Load Balancing

■ Support

Accessing Hub Features

More Information on Device Features

Accessing Hub Features

More Information on Device Features

See Setting Up Security for a Device for information about device security . See Performing Diagnostics

performing Link and Ping tests.

for information about resetting devices and

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Accessing the Device View

To launch the Device View, double-click on a device symbol in the HP Network Node Manager map or right-mouse-click on the device symbol and select Monit or HP Hub/Switc h. The Status - Overview page for the device displays. Select the Config uration tab and click on Device View to display the port view of the device.

Viewing Device Identity Information

You can view some basic information about the device by selecting the Identity tab. You can ch an ge th e information b y selecting th e Co n f iguration tab and c licking on the System Information button.

See the online help for informatio n ab out settin g o r changing these values.

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Interpreting Device Status

The Status - Overview page fo r the hubs di splays the Performance Gauges and any alerts that have occurred. For switching hubs, the Status - Overview page displays gauges by segment instead of by attribute.

Figure 6-1. Segmented Hub Status Overview Page

Accessing Hub Features

Interpreting Device Status

Accessing Hub Features

Reading the Performance Gauges

The performance gauges display statistical information about the selected device. By looking at the gauges, you can quickly determine if there are problems with the network utilization, collisions, the number of broadcasts per second, or the number of error packets. The gauges are refreshed every five seconds.

The information shown for hubs is for all ports on the device. You can obtain information for each port by selecting the Performance Gauges button, then selecting an individual port from the drop down list. If you want to monitor a different attribute for that port, just select the desired attribute from the drop down list below the port number.

The following table explains the attributes and gives their threshold settings on a per port basis for hubs. These settings cannot be changed. Y ou can view an attribute val ue for a ll t he ports of a devic e by sel ecti ng All Ports from the drop down list above the attribute. For the switching hubs, you can also select a segment from the drop down list.

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Table 6-1. Gauge Attributes for Hubs

Attribute Description Severity Values

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Utilization% Represents the traffic on the port as a

percent age of the port’s bandwidth.

Collisions% Represents th e number of collisions that have

occurre d expressed as a percentage of t he packets transmitted through the port.

Broadcasts/sec Represents the number of broadcast packets

being tran smi tted t hr ough th e por t per sec ond.

Errors % Represents the number o f errors that have

occurre d expressed as a percentage of t he total num ber of packets received through the port.

Multic asts/sec Represents the number of multica st packets

being tran smi tted t hr ough th e por t per sec ond.

Warning: 40% Critica l: 75%

Warning: 30% Critica l: 50%

Warning: 150/s ec Critical: 400/sec

Warning: 0%-1% Critica l: 1%

Warning: 1500/ sec

Critica l: 400 0/ se c

Status - Global Counters

Hub Global Counters

Selecting the Global Counters button displays a page listing eight counters and their values since the la st device reset. The counters are totals for the device. To view counters by port, select the Port Counters tab.

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Switching Hub Global Counters

The switching hubs display the counters described in the following table.

Table 6-2. Switching Hub Global Counters

Counter Description

Total Packet s Total nu mber of pac ket s (incl ud ing ba d pac ket s, br oa dcas t

packets, and multicast packets) received.

Table 6-2. Switching Hub Global Counters

Counter Description

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Configuring Your Device

Total Octe ts Total number of octets of data (including bad packets)

received on the network. This object can be used to

estimate Ethernet utilization. Broadcast Packets Messages sent to all users on the network. Multica st Packets Multicas t packe ts are deli ver ed to a sub set of users on t he

network, as oppos ed to Broa dcast pa ckets, whi ch are sent

to all users. Collisions When two or more devices attempt to transmit a message

on a cable at the sam e time, int erfe ri ng wi th one anot her 's

transmis sions. The number of colli sions should be

proportion al to the numb er of packet s transmi tted over time

and the number of nodes operating on the netw ork. CRC/Alignment Errors The Cyclic Redundanc y Check (CRC) is a cod e typically

placed at the end of the fram e or packet to ensure the

integrity of the data within the fram e.

Alignment Errors are the num ber of instan ces w here the

CRC method was used to cor rect a packet whose bits wer e

misaligned because of tim ing errors. Fragments Total numb er of packets received that w ere less than 64

octets in length and had a bad Frame Check Sequence

(FCS). Jabbers Total number of packets received that were longer than

1518 octets and had a bad Frame Check Sequence (FCS).

High levels i ndicate too many packet tra nsm issions.

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Status - Por t Co unters

The Port Counters button displays a page wi th info rmatio n ab o ut important counters for each port. See the online help for information on each counter.

Configuring Your Device

When you select the Confi gu ration tab the Device View (f orm erly a Closeup View) is displayed in the page. The other button s in this page pro vid e access to various configuration features for that device.

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Configuring Your Device

If the device you selected is not manageable by browser , you can only manage it from the management workstation.

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Figure 6-2. 10Base-T Hub-12M Device View

You can enable and disable individual ports (click on the port to select it), or click on the Select All Ports button to enable or disable all the ports of a device in one step.

For the switching hub, select a hub or card from the stack using the drop down list at the top. The Closeup View for that hub or card will display.

To move selected ports to a partic ular segment:

1. Select the Move Selected Ports to Segment button.

2. Select a hub from the drop down list, then select the segment that you want to move the port to.

3. Click on Apply Settings.

Accessing Hub Features

Configuring Your Device

Click on the link “meaning behind the port icons” to view the port indicator legend.

Configura tion - Fault Detectio n

The automatic fault detection feature protects your network from failing because of problems such as network loops, defective cables, transceivers and faulty network interface car ds. The Faul t Detection page lets you set the sensitivity and actions that occur when a fault is detected on a port in your network. For hubs, you can set the sensitivity for logging network problems and disabling ports. The sensitivity settings are:

High Sensitivity: the device will act when a network problem of any severity occurs . Netw o rk problems are automatically detected and entered into the Alert Log.

Medium Sensitivity: the device will act when serious network problems occur.

Low Sensitivity: the device will act only when severe network problems occur. These are problems that may br ing the network down.

Never: The device will never take any actions regardless of the severity of the problem.

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Configuring Your Device

Figure 6-3. Fault Detection Sensitivity Settings

Configura tion - System Information

The System Information page lets you enter a system name for the device, the location of the device, and whom to contact in the event of a problem.

Configuri ng IP

Select the way that you want IP addresses configured for your network:

■ Manual - Set the IP address through the console.

■ Disabled - IP is disabled, there is no access to management or telnet. Not

Recommended.

■ Use Bootp - The Bootp protocol sets the IP address automatically.

Hub I P C onfig uration

If you select Manual, you must then enter an IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and Time to Live for the device. If you select Bootp/DHCP, the IP address will be assigned automat ically.

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For the switching hubs, you must select a segment to configure before you select Manual or Bootp/DHCP. If you select Manual, you must then enter an IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and Time to Live for the device. If you select Bootp/DHCP, the IP address will be assigned automatically.

Characteristics of Bootp an d D C HP. The Bootp protocol is designed for a network in which each h o st has a permanent network connection. It is not adaptable to a mobile computing envir o n ment.

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) manages the allocation of TCP/IP configuration information by automatically assigning IP addresses.When a device connects to the network, it requests an address from the DHCP server. In dynamic mode, the address is used by the devic e for a specified period of time. The time period depends on the situation; one device may only need th e ad d ress for an hour, while another device may use the same address for severa l da ys. DHCP is more suitable in environments where the number of IP addresses needed exceeds the number available. It also allows a device to obtain i ts con f igu ration information, such as the IP Address and Subnet Mask, in one message, reducing the demand on the network.

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A static IP address is a unique address that is assigned to one client only. Static addresses are used for an extended time period.

Port Configuration

The Port Configuration page displays information about the hub ports. To enable a port, select the port number in the page, then click Enable Selected Ports. Use the Disable Selected Ports button to disable a port or group of ports.

The information displayed is described in the table.

Table 6-3. Hub Port Configuration

Setting Description

Port The port number. State The port can be on or off. Connected Yes: A device is connected t o this port.

No: There is nothing connected to this port. Partitioned: The node is disconnected from

the network and the traffic that the port generates is lost.

Polarity Reversed: Some signals in the cab le are revers ed due to a miswired cable.

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Segment For switchi ng hubs, the segme nt that the port

Last Source Address The address of the last devi ce that sent

Security Violati o n States whether there is a sec urity violation

is on.

packets th rough this port.

or no violation.

Configuration - Backup Links

A backup link (hubs only) configures two ports on one hub to create a redundant connection to another device. This provides a connection with fault-tolerant capability for highly reliable networking. One port is designated the primary port; the second port is the backup port. The backup port becomes active only if the primary port becomes inoperative. Any of the

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network ports (twisted-pair, ThinLAN, or AUI/Xcvr) can be used as the primary port or backup port.

Figure 6-4. Setting Backup Links

You can create one or more backup links by selecting the Backup Links button and clicking on the Add New Backup Link.. . button at the bottom of that page. The parameters are describ ed in the table.

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Table 6-4. Backup Link Parameters

Parameter Description

Status Displays which port is currently being used, a primary

port or a bac kup port.

Primary Por t A port that you can use as a primary port, or the port

that will be used during standard connection of a hub and the connected device.

Backup Port The backup por t to be used if there is a failure on the

prim ar y port.

MAC Address The MAC address of the device that the primary and

backup ports are connected to.

Table 6-4. Backup Link Parameters

Parameter Description

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Test Time The interval in seconds between test packets sent

between t he primar y port and t he receiv ing device. This checks the i nt egri ty of th e li nk t o det er mine w het her t o initiate a backup link.

Retries The m aximum number of tim es the p rimar y port ca n fai l

before th e backup port becomes active.

Configuring Load Balancing - Switching Hubs

Only the switching hubs pro vid e a lo ad ba lan cing feature to automatically distribute the switching hub ports among the four segments to optimize performance. For switching hubs with version A.01.01 firm ware th is feature requires a switch module. For switching hubs with firmware versions later than A.01.01, the hub can load ba lan ce with an external switch.

To access this feature, select the Load Balancing button. Click on the Perform Automatic Load Balancing button. If you want to undo the load balancing, select the Undo Last Load Balancing button.

Configuration - Support URL

You can obtain support information by going to the HP Support site on the World Wide Web. The URL is:

http://www.hp.com/go /procurve

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Select Support.

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Figure 6-5. Support URL

If you want to change the URL that is accessed when the Support tab is selected, type in the new address and click on the Apply Changes button. For example, you could change the URL to launch your site home page.

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This chapter has information on:

■ Switch Status

■ Switch Identity

■ Configuration

■ Using VLANs

■ Support/Mgmt URL

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Switch Status

Status - Overview

To launch the Status - Overview page for a switch that is manageabl e by browser, double-click on the switch symbol in the HP Network Node Manager map or right-mouse-click on the symbol and select

Hub/Switch

Note: If the device is not manageable by browser you will see the Closeup Vie w in a separate window (you must lau nch the Closeu p V iew from the management station). Read the chapter “Management for Non-Browserable Devices” or see the online help for more information.

The Status - Overview page is di vid ed into two areas, th e Graph area and th e Alert Log area.

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Figure 7-1. Switch Statu s Overview Page

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Graph Area

The bar graph gives a quic k overvi ew of the per formance o f the swit ch. Eac h bar shows the highest percentage of transmitted (TX) or recei ved (RX) traffic utilization for that port in the last five seconds .

The graph area proportionally depicts three attributes for each port:

■ Unicast packets - The percent utilization for packets that were not

addressed to a multicast or broadcast address.

■ Non-Unicast packets - The percent utilization of received non-unicast

packets (both b roadcast and multicas t). If there is a broadcast sto rm, only the port receiving these packets shows high utilization, lettin g you quickly pinpoint the problem.

■ Errors - The percent u t ilization for er ror packets received. A hi gh

percentage may indicate possible network problems.

Place the cursor over a bar in the graph to display the ex act p ercentages for each attribute and the speed of that port. T he above graph di splays a high percentage of non-unicast packets on port 2 (a 10 Mbps port) because this port is running video. Port 5 is indicating some errors.

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The graph only scal es to 40% utilization . Network utilization above this level indicates serious performance problem s.

The graph also shows you if a port is active, disabled, or not connected.

Alert Log Area - Find/Fix/Inform

The “Find/Fix/ In form” capability of a device hel p s you proactively manage your network by display ing trap s sent from the devi ce in an easi ly acce ssible browser page. The device monitors counters and internal hardware information. When a problem is discovered, such as loss of link, a problem cable, or a broadcast storm, the Alert Log displays clear messages about the problem. When you double-click on an alert in the Alert Log (or select the alert and click on the Open Event button) , the Aler ts page displays more information about the ale rt as wel l as some suggestions for fixing the problem.

For example, the Aler t Log may disp lay th e alert “Cable Length”. The following infor mation is available:

Description: Packet loss detected on port 4. This may be due to an overextended LAN

topology or faulty hardware. The loss was detected on this port, but the actual problem can be occurring elsewhere on this segment.

Solution:

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■ Ve ri fy the n etwork topol ogy is withi n IEEE 802 .3 topology standards. All

ThinLan coaxial cabl ing must be 185 mete rs or shor ter. No more than 4 repeaters are allow ed between any two stations in the network.

■ Insert bridges or switches between repeaters to extend network topology

if needed.

■ Check for faulty cabl ing, transceivers, and NICs.

■ Check for a Full/Half-duplex mismatch

Using the Find/Fix/Inform capability, the device can isolate a problem that occurs on one port, preventing it from affecting the entire network.

See Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

for information on reading and acknowledging

alerts.

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Switch Status

Status - Por t Co unters

The Port Counters information for switches displays specific network conditions or traffic. See the online help for more information about each counter.

Status - Por t Status

The Port Status page (switches only) displays the operational status of each switch port. The settings can be changed in the Configuration - Port Configuration page.

The Port Status settings are described in the following table.

Table 7-1. Port Status Settings

Setting Description

Port The port number. Port Type The network type of each switch port, for example, 100TX.

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Enabled Whether the port is enabled or disabled. Link Status The port’ s curre nt operati onal status . Up means the port is working

correctly. Down means the port is disabled.

Current Mode The operational mode of the port.

• 10/100 Base TX - Can be 10 Mbit s hal f or ful l du plex or 100 Mbi ts half or full duplex.

• 100 Base FX - Can be 100/full duplex or 100/half duplex.

• Gigabit - Can only be 1000 full duplex .

Flow Cont rol Indicates the current state of flow control for this port .

• 10/100TX, 10 FL, 100 FX: – On - Flow control is enabled. – Off - Flow co ntrol is dis abled (default).

• Gigabit: – On (TX, RX) - Flow control is enabled on transmit and

receive . – On (RX) - Flow control on receive only. – Off (default) - Flow control is disabled.

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Table 7-1. Port Status Settings

Setting Description

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Identity

Bcast Li m it (not available on

the HP J32 98 A or HP J3299A)

The Broadcas t Limit, expressed as a percentage of broadcast packets rel ative to the theor etical l imit. Any broadcast or multicast traffic exceeding this limit w ill be dropped. A value of ze ro indicates that no limit is to be applied. Valu es range from 0-99.

Identity

The Identity tab displays the following information about the switch:.

■ System Name ■ Produ ct Number and Name

■ System Location ■ Firmware Version

■ System Contact ■ IP Address

■ System Up-Time ■ Management Server

The Management Server field displays the address (URL) of the management station where HP Hub & Switch Management was installed. This can be changed by selecting the Configuration tab and displaying the Support/ Mgmt URLs page. Enter the URL in the Management Server URL field. Online help can be displayed at any client when this URL is set correctly.

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Configuration

The Configuration p age lets you configure many device featu res, for example, the sensitivity levels for Fault Detection.

Device View

There is a Device View for every managed HP switch. The Device View for the HP ProCurve Switch 4000M looks like the following graphic. Use the online help to obtain information about specific switch modules.

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Figure 7-2. HP ProCurve Switch 4000M Device View

Configura tion - Fault Detectio n

The automatic fault detection feature protects your network from failing because of problems such as network loops, defective cables, transceivers and faulty network interface cards. Network problems are automatically detected and entered in the Alert Log. The Fa ul t Detection page lets you set the sensitivity levels for t he actions to be taken when a fault is detected on a port in your network. Switches only have a sensitivity setting for logging network problems. The sensitivity settings are:

High Sensitivity: The devi ce will make an entry in th e Alert Log (located in the Status tab) when a network problem of any severity o ccu rs.

Medium Sensitivity: The device will make an entry in the Alert Log when serious network problems occur.

Low Sensitivity: The device will make an entry in the Alert Log only when severe network problems occur. These are problems that may bring the network down.

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Never: The device will never make any en tries in the Alert Log regardless of the severity of the problem.

Configura tion - System Information

The System Information page lets you enter a system name for the device, the location of the device, and whom to contact in the event of a problem.

Configuration - IP Configuratio n

Select the way that you want IP addresses configured for your network:

■ Manual - Set the IP address through the console.

■ Disabled - IP is disabled, there is no access to management or telnet. Not

Recommended.

■ Use Bootp - The Bootp (or DHCP) protocol sets the IP address automat-

ically.

If you select Manual configuration, you can change the IP address, a subnet mask, and a default gateway for the device.

Some switches let you configu re an IP address for every VLAN you have created.

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Figure 7-3. Switch IP Configuration

Characteristics of Bootp an d D HC P. The Bootp protocol is designed for a network in which each host has a permanent network location. It is not adaptable to a mobile computing envir o n ment.

A static IP address is a unique address that is assigned to one client only. Static addresses are used for an extended time period.

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Configura tion - Port Configur ation

The Port Configuration page displays information about the switch ports. The settings are explaine d in the follo wing table. To modify a port setting, click on a port then select the Modify Selected Ports button. Modify multiple ports at one time by using Ctrl-Click to select the desired ports.

Note: Some switches support trunking. For information on trunking, see the online help fo r tha t de vice .

Figure 7-4. Switch Port Configuration

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Table 7-2. Switch Port Configuration Settin gs

Setting Description

Port The port number. The port may be appended with on e of the

following:

• Trkx - The port trunk to w hich this por t belongs

• Mesh - The port has been assigned to a switch mesh domain

• MP - The port is a Monitor Port Port Type The MAC layer type, for example, 100VG or FDDI. Enabled Whether the por t is enabled or disabled.

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Config Mode The speed and duplexing for the port. Auto mode will negotiate

with the de vice on that por t to determine the mode. Click on Modify Selected Ports t o change the mode.

Flow Contr ol Indicates the current state of flow control for this port. When

disabled, the port does not generat e flow control packets and drops any flow control packets it receives.

• 10/ 10 0T X , 10 FL , 10 0 FX :

– On - Flow control is enabled. – Off - Flow co n trol is dis a bl ed (defaul t).

•Gigabit:

– On (TX, RX) - Flow control is enabled on tran sm it and

receive. – On (RX) - Flow control on receive only. – Off (default) - Flow control is disabled.

Bcast Limi t The Broadcast Limit, ex pressed as a pe rcentage of broadcast

packets relative to the t heoreti cal limit . Any br oadcast or multicas t traffic exceeding this limit will be dropped. A value of zero indicates that no limit is to be applied.Values range from 0-99 .

Configuration - Assigning a Monitoring Port

The Monitor Port tab (only found on switches) lets you select a “Monitoring Port” that you can use with a network analyzer to monitor other ports on the switch. For the HP J3298A and HP J3299A you can only choose the Monitoring port and the port to be monitored. For other switches you can choose to have all the ports for one VLAN monitored, or you can select individual ports to be monitored. See the online help for information on specific switche s.

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Figure 7-5. Selecting a Monitoring Port on a Switch

Using VLANS

Virtual LANs, or VLANs, are generally defined as broadcast domains created with software rather than being a functio n of the hardware. They can be viewed as a group of end nodes, possibly on different physical LAN segments, that can communicate with each other.

As networks expand, more routers are needed to separate users into broadcast domains. Latency degrades network performance, and is a special problem for multimedia applications. Switches using VLANS create the same division of the network into broadcast domains, but do not have the latency problems of a router. Switches are also a more cost-effective solution. You can create virtual LANs by assigning selected ports of your HP switch to a VLAN.

The benefits of VLANs include:

■ Grouping users into logical networks for increased performance

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■ Providing an easy, flexible, less cos t ly way to modify logical gr oups in

changing environments

■ Preserving curren t investment in equipment an d cabling

■ Allowing administrators to “fine tune” the network

■ Providing independence from the physical topology of the network

VLANs make large networks more manageable. You can group users according to some shared characteristic, such as a common busin ess function or a common protocol. A single switch may have severa l independent VLANs within it.

Note: VLANs must be created with the device console.

Configuration - Device Features

The Device Features page (onl y fo und o n swi t ch es) lets you set some or all of these features:

■ Automatic Br oadcast Cont rol (ABC)

■ Multicast Filtering (IGM P)

■ Spanning Tree

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Automatic Broadcast Control (ABC)

Automatic Broadcast Control (ABC) is a feature that controls broadcasts through IP/IPX Broadcast Reduction. IP/IPX Broadcast Reduction reduces the number of broadcasts propagated through the network.

Using ABC, th e switch acts as a proxy se rv er, replying to Address Resolut io n Protocol (ARP) requests, Nearest Server Query (NSQ) requests, and GetLocalTarget reques ts on behalf of the destination node . An ARP cache (learned address table) is created for each subnet allowing the switch to proxy reply with the resolved MAC address instead of forwarding the requests out all ports. This limits the broadcasts within the switching domain. The Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) table performs the same function in an IPX network. By using these tabl es, the switch can resolve addresses for any node in the network that it already knows about.

Routing Information Protocol. The switch also intercepts Routin g Information Protocol (RIP) and SAP broadcasts and forwards these only to ports where routers and servers have been de tected . This also reduces the number of broadcasts on the network.

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For example, if User A sends out a broadcast message to connect to its server, the request is sent out of all ports on the swit ch . When the serv er responds to User A, the switch intercepts the response and learns that the server is on that port. When User B sends a request to the same server, the switch already knows which port that server is on and sends that information to User B, just as if the server had responded to the request. User B’s request is not broadcast out any of the switch ports.

Enabling Broadcast Control for IP

The IP protocol uses Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packets to find the MAC address of a node that corresponds to the network layer address. When Broadcast Contr ol is enab led, the switch intercepts the ARP packet on its way to the destination node. If this destination is unknown to the switch, the switch floods the ARP request to all ports. When the destination port responds, the switch stores information about the destination MAC address and layer 3 address in its ARP cach e. T hi s info rmation allows the switch to proxy a reply containing the MAC address of a destination to the source of an ARP request. The source can then send a unicas t pac ket directly to the destination. The amount of broadcast traffic has been decreased.

Automatic IP RIP Control. To further reduce broadcast traffic, you can check Automatic IP RIP Control. IP RIP packets are sent out perio d ically (every 30 seconds) to distribute routing information. By enabling Automatic IP RIP Control, the switch will only forward RIP packets out the ports on which RIP packets have been received. Since routers are the onl y de vices that generate RIP packets, this ensures that RIP packets are only sent out ports with routers attached to them. When this feature is not enabled, IP RIP packets are forwarded to all ports.

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Enabling Broadcast Control for IPX

The IPX protocol broadcasts all of its known routes and services every minute by using IPX, RIP and Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) packets. When servers are booted up, they advertise their services using SAP. These frames must be forwarded by routers, which maintain a database of this information, allowing clients on the network to obtain the internetwork addresses of the servers where they can access services.

Automatic IPX RIP/SAP Control. To further reduce network traffic, you can check the Automatic IPX RIP/SAP Control check box. The switch will intercept RIPs and SAPs, broadcasting them only to ports where IPX routers or servers have been detected, or to ports that have been configured to

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transmit RIPs or SAPs. When this feature is not enabled, IPX RIP/SAP packets are forwarded to all ports.

Automatic IP Gateway Configuration

When Automatic IP Gateway Configuration is enabled, the swi t ch wil l modify replies from the DHCP server so that the Default Gateway IP address of a client becomes the client’ s own IP address. This is useful in a multinetted environment (where more than one IP network is configured in a single broadcast domain).

See Routing Information Protocol.

Internet Gro up Management Pr otocol (IGMP)

Multimedia and email applications need the ability to communicate to multiple destinations efficiently. IP multicasting allows host s to d yn amically register for sending or receiving multicast traffic.

The Internet Group Management Protocol is a method for automatically controlling multicast traffic through the network. Using multicasting, applications can send one copy of a packet addressed to a group of computers that wish to receive it. This method is more efficient than sending a separate copy to each node. Other advantages of multicasting include:

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■ information delivered in a timely , synchronized manner because all desti-

nation nodes receive the same packet

■ information can be sent to destinations whose addresses are unknown

■ reduces the number of packets on the network because only one multicast

packet is sent.

IGMP uses multicast queriers and hosts that support IGMP to manage multicast traffic on the network. It specifies how the host informs the network that it is a member of a multicast group. A set of queriers and hosts that send and re ceive data from the same set of sources is a multicast group.

The HP switches have a standards-based IGMP implementation. The switches process IGMP packets by learning which of the switch’s interfaces are linked to hosts that are members of multicast groups and multicast routers. It limits multicast traffic by monitoring the IGMP traffic to learn which hosts are in which multicast groups, then allowing IP multicast traffic to be sent only to ports with valid host group members.

When a switch receives an IGMP packet, it u pdates the internal IP multic ast forwarding table with the IGMP membership read from that packet. The

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switch then sends the packet to the ports with members of the destination multicast group.

Special multicast routers/queriers communicate by using three message types - query, report, and leave group. The query message, sent by a querier, is used to discover which network interfaces belong to a multicast group. Each host responds to th e query message with a report m essage that tel ls the querier the host is a member of the multicast group. The host also can send a report message to join a group or a leave message to leave a group.

Note: Using the console you can designate specific ports to always or never forward multicast packets.

Forward with High Priority

When “Forward with High Prior ity” is checked, any IGMP packets received by the switch will be forwarded in a prioritized manner, preceding packets with normal priority.

The Spanning Tree Protocol

The Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1d) maintains a loop-free topology in networks with redundant bridges or switches. The spanning tree devices determine which devices will be active and which will be backups so that no two nodes in a network have more than o ne active p ath between them at any time. The Spanning Tree Protocol uses the most efficient path between segments. If a bridge or switch fails, the other bridges and switches reconfigure the network automatically. When the problem is repaired, the bridges and switches automatically return to the original network configuration.

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Figure 7-6. Switch Device Features

If you have configured VLANs for the switch (you must do this with the device console), sel ect a VLAN for which th e featu res will apply.

Configura tion - Support/Mgm t U R Ls

Support URL

To go directly to the HP Support Site on the World Wide Web, click on the Support tab. You will launch the site indicated by the URL that has been entered in the Configure - Support/Mgmt URLs page. By default this is the HP Network City support site. The Network City site has information about HP devices, FAQs, firmware upgrades, white papers on current technologies, and much more. This URL is:

http://www. hp.com/go/procurve

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Figure 7-7. Setting URLs for Support and the Management Station

Management Server URL

Enter the URL for your management server. This will let you display the online help at any client in the network.

Note: This field will contain the address for the HP Network City web site by default. If you do not change it, the online help will be loaded from the HP Network City site.

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Setting Up Security for a Device

It is advisable to set up security for your devices to prevent unauthorized access to the device or the network. You can configure device security to prevent unauthorized use of certain parts of the network by certain nodes, and to keep unwanted traffic out of certain parts of the network.

Note: For older HP devices that cannot be managed with a Web browser, read the chapter “Management for Non-Browserab le Devices” or see the online help.

This chapter contains information on:

■ Device Passwords

■ The Function of Community Names

■ Port Security

■ Address Selection

■ Eavesdrop Prevention

■ Setting Security Policy

■ The Intrusion Log

Setting Up Security for a Device

Device Passwords

Assigning passw ord s to devices helps limit acces s to authorized persons. In the Security page, select the for the device.

Device Passwords

button to assign passwords

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Device Passwords

Figure 8-1. Assign Passwords to a Device

There are two categories of passwords:

■ Operator (Read only) : The Operator can view all pag es except the Security

pages. For switches, this password is the same as the console password.

■ Manager (Full Read and Write permissions): The Manager can view all

pages and make any changes in any page. The Manager name and password are the same as th e name and password used in accessing the device through the console or a telnet session. If you change the password in this page, the console password is overwritten and becomes this password.

Enter the desired names and passwords. The minimum recommended setup is to have one Manager password. Cl ick o n the Apply Changes button. If you want to clear these changes select the Clear Changes button. This will not clear any changes that you have alr ead y applied to the device.

Device

Manager/Opera to r Passw ord Combinations

The level of protection and the acce ss granted to the device depends on

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what passwords are set at what levels. The table b elo w descr ibes the settings and their consequences.

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Table 8-1. Manager/Operator Password Combinations

Setting Up Security for a Device

Device Passwords

Passwords Read

Protected

Manager password set Operator password not set

Manager password set Operator passw ord set

Manager password not set Operator passw ord set

Manager password not set Operator password not set

N/A Yes Anyone can get Read Access, but only th e

Yes Yes Both the Manager and the Oper ator have

Yes Yes The Operator has both Read and Write

N/A N/A Anyone can get Rea d and Write Access to

See the online help for inf ormation about non-browsera b le d evices.

The Funct ion of Commun ity Names

A community defines aut he ntication and access control between an SNMP agent and a management station. The communi ty na me functio ns as a password in that management statio ns must use the community name for all Get and Set operations. This is different and separate from the Operator and Manager passwords, which protect access to the browser interface and console settings.

Write Protected

Results

Manager can r ead and writ e to the de vice. Recommended m inimum setting.

Read Access, but only the Manager has Write Access. Everyone else is shut out of the device. Recommended setting.

Access becaus e Write Access has not been reserv ed for the Mana ger.

the device. Not recommended.

To set a Community Name for a device:

1. Right mouse click on a device symbol and select SNMP Configure HP

Hub/Switch

2. Enter the passwords in the Set SNMP Passwords (Communiti es) p age.

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Port Security

Y ou can assign security levels on hubs port by port. Select the Port Security button to view the current settings fo r each po rt.

Figure 8-2. View the Secu rity Settings for Each Port.

Address Sele ctio n

Address Selection refers to how the authorized address for a port is discovered. The three settings are explained in the table.

Table 8-2. Address Selection

Setting Description

Continuous The devi ce l ea rns the a ddr ess of th e dev ice att ac hed to the p or t and

makes it th e authorized MAC address. If a different device is later

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attache d to the port, th e new address i s learned and becomes the authorized address.

Table 8-2. Address Selection

Setting Description

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Port Securit y

First Heard

Assigned Enter the address of the devic e that is authorized to be attached to

To set the Address Selecti o n:

1. Click on the Set Security Policy for Select ed Ports button.

2. Select a setting from the Address Selection drop down list.

3. Click on Apply Settings.

The devi ce l ea rns the a ddr ess of th e dev ice att ac hed to the p or t and makes it th e authorized MAC address. If a different device is later attache d to the port, th e new address i s registered as an “intr uder address”; a security violation has occurred and the port is automatically disabled.

the port. I f a diff erent device i s att ached to th e port , the n ew addre ss is registered as an “intruder addr ess”; a security violation has occurred and the port is disabled.

Authorized Address

The Authorized A ddress field contai n s the MAC address of the d evice that is authorized to be attached to the port.

Eavesdrop Prevention

Eavesdrop Preventi o n is a feature of several HP devices that stops a computer or other device from seeing network traffic that is not intended for that port. When Eavesdrop Prevention is configured on a port, the port's authorized MAC addre ss is compared with the destination ad d re ss of any outbound packets.

Set the Eavesdrop Prevention parameter for a port or group of ports by clicking on the Set Security Policy for Selected Ports button and selecting “yes” from the Prevent Eavesdropping drop down list.

Send Alarm

If you set the Send Alarm parameter to “yes”, a trap will be sent to the management stat ion when an u nrecogn ized ad dress is re ceived . Set the Send Alarm parameter for a port or group of ports by clicking on the Set Security Policy for Sel ec t ed Po rts button and selecting “yes” from the Send Alarm drop down list.

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Setting Up Security for a

Device

Setting Up Security for a Device

Set Securit y Policy for Selected Ports

Note: In order for traps to function, you must also set the trap in the Thresholds dialog box , as fol lows:

1. Using the right mouse button, click on the device symbol in the HP Network Node Manager map.

2. Select

3. Select the Thresholds tab and set the thresholds for the traps you are

4. Select the Trap Receivers tab and set the management stations that can

5. Select the Auth orized Man agers tab a nd set the management stati ons that

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interested in receiving.

capture traps.

can se n d and receiv e S N MP re quests f o r th e devi c e.

Disable Port

If the Disable Port parameter displays “yes”, the port may be disabled when an unrecognized address is received. Disabling the port depends on the Address Selection parameter that you have chosen. The settings and

Assigned

port will not be disabled when a new address is learned if the setting is

Continuous

will disable the port if a new address is heard on that port. The

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Set Security Policy for Selected Ports

You can set the security policy port by port, or by selecting a group of ports. Select one port by clicking on the entry in the Port Security page. T o select more than one port, you can Ctrl-click on each port you want to include, or to select a range of contiguous ports, click on the first port in the range, then shift-click on the last port to be included. Click the

Selected Ports

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button. Select the parameters that you want to assign.

Set Security Policy for

Setting Up Security for a Device

The Intrusion Log

Figure 8-3. Setting Security Policy for Several Ports

The Intrusion Log

The Intrusion Log page lets you view security intrusi o n s (v io lations) of a device. The infor mation displayed include s:

■ Port - The ports that have detected attempts of unauthorized access.

■ Intruder Address - Address of the intruder. The IP a ddress is displayed for

SNMP agent violati ons. The MAC addres s is displayed for port violati ons. The port violation must be cleared before another port violation will display .

■ Date/Ti me - Date and time the security intrusion occurred.

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Performing Diagnostics

Performing a Ping/Link Test

Performi n g Di agnos tics

Using HP Hub & Switch Management, you can help isolate faults by running device self-tests, Link tests, and Ping tests (IP networks).

Note: For older HP devices that cannot be managed with a Web browser, read the chapter “Management for Non-Browserab le Devices” or see the online help.

This chapter includes information on:

■ Performing a Ping/Link T est

■ Rebooting a Device

■ Resetting a Hub to Factory Default Settings

■ Producing a Configuration Report

Performing Diagnostics

Performing a Ping/Link Test

You can isolate faults by running Link tests or Ping tests (IP networks). Select the a test for sending test packets to, or through, a device in order to verify the path between two network devices. In the field enter the IP address or MAC address of th e dev ice for which you want to test the connection. Specify th e n umber of pack ets to send and the timeout (in seconds) for each test. Click on the Click on the

Diagnostics

Stop

tab and click on the

button to stop the test.

Ping/L i n k Test

Destination MAC/IP Address

button to start the test.

Start

button. Choose

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Rebooting a Device

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Figure 9-1. Ping/Link Test

The number of successes or failures of the test packets reaching the Destination IP or MAC Address are displ ayed at the top of the page. A failu re means that either the device at the destin atio n ad d ress did not respond within the timeout specified, or the data returned from the device indicated an error.

The Defaults button will reset the Number of Packets to Send and the Timeout value to the default values of 10 packets and 1 second, respectively.

Rebooting a Device

Rebooting the device is the same as poweri ng off the device. Network operation w ill be interrupt ed while the device ini t ializes.

Performing Diagnostics

Resetting a Hub to Factory Default Settings

Resetting the hub to the factory default settings removes any configuration changes that you have made since installing the device , an d rest o res the factory defaults. The IP address is also removed; you must enter an IP address before the device will o p erate on your network, unless you have Bootp or DHCP.

Producing a Configuration Report

The Configuration Report displays information about the current settings on your device. You can use your browser’s capabilities to print a copy of the report or save it to a file. See the online help for a more detailed explanation of this report.

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Performing Diagnostics

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HP Hub & Switch Managem en t Admin

HP Hub & Switch Management Admin is an administrati on utili ty that all ows you to set specified configuration and control parameters used by HP Hub & Switch Management for OV -UX. HP Admin is automati cally installed when you install HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-UX.

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Starting HP Hub & Switch Management Admin

■ HP Admin Pa ra met e rs

Starting HP Hub & Switch Management Admin

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You can start HP Admin in the follow in g wa ys:

■ Enter /opt/HPASA/bin/admin at the command line prompt.

■ In an OpenView submap, display the

& Swit ch Admin

Options

menu and select

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HP Admin Parameters

The parameters that you can set in HP Admin are grouped into these categories:

■ Network parameters

■ User Interface parameters

■ Graph options parameters

■ Printer Configuration parameters

■ OpenView Configuration options

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The parameters are briefly described below. For more information, see the HP Admin online help.

Network P a ram e ters

Network parameters enable you to set values and behavior for network device communication and Clo seup View activity . The par ameters for network device communication are described in the following table.

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Figure 10-1. Setting Network Parameters

Table 10-1. Network Parameters

Parameter Description

SNMP Max Retries Specifies th e num ber of times w ill retr y an SNMP request to

get a resp onse. The range is 1-5 times. The default is 3.

SNMP Timeout Speci fies the ti m e (in seconds) that HP Hub & Switch

Management wi ll w ait f or a repl y on e ach req ues t. Th e rang e is 1-6 seconds. The default is 5.

HP OpenView Device Symbols

There are two states for an OpenView dev ice symbol on an OpenView map, explodable and executable. When the device symbol is in the explodable state (no box appears around it) and you double-click on it, a submap showing

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the attached devices appears. When the device symbol is in the executable state (a box appears around the symbol) and you double-click on it, a Closeup View of the device appears.

HP Admin gives you two ch eck boxes i n the Make Device Symbols Execu t- able at OpenView Startup section that all ow you to change the state of the device symbols the next time OpenView is started. If the check box for Hubs/ Bridges/Switches is enabled (box is darker), the next time that OpenView is started the associated device symbols w ill be executable. If th e ch eck box is not enabled, the next time that OpenView is started the state of the symbols will not have changed. If the symbols were in the ex ecu tab le state when you exited OpenView, they will remain in the executable state. If the symbols were in the explodable state when you exited OpenView, they will remain in the explodable state.

Note: When an HP Admin check box is disabled, no change in the existing device symbol stat e occur s when OpenView is restarted.

Note: If you enable a Hub/Bridge/Switch chec k box while OpenView is running, the change in symbol state to executable will not occur until OpenView is restarted. OpenView checks these parameters at startup.

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User Interface Parameters

User Interfac e parameters enable you to set the vi sual environment and object attributes in the HP Hub & Switch Management Device Views.

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Table 10-2. User Interface Parameters

Parameter Description

User Level • This paramete r contro ls HP Hub & Switch Manag ement

messages to the user. There are 3 user-level parameters:

• Beginner (User Level 1, default): Message boxes will notify the user when device param eter modifications have completed. Also, the user will be warned about changes t hat are about to be made to a device or to a local f ile. The us er will be a llowed t o canc el the change.

• Interm ediate (User Level 2): The user will be warned about cha nges tha t are about t o be made to a dev ice or to a local file. The user will be allowed to cancel the change.

• Advanced (User Level 3): There will be no notificatio n or confirmation messages.

Port Statistics Interval This parameter is set by a slidi ng bar and spe cifies the

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sampli ng interval (in seconds ) for the port statistics graphical displays. The default is 5 seconds.

Show T ool Bar Banner Thi s p ara met er spe ci fies whet he r t he tit le of e ach Toolbar

Closeup Status Interval This parameter is set by a sliding bar and specifies t he

Closeup Gau ge Interval This parameter is set by a sliding bar and specifies the

Thresholds: Activity% Sliding bars are used t o specify the levels at which the

Thresholds: Collision%; Hi gh Priority

button is displayed in the graphical control panels (Closeup Views) a s the mouse cur sor is passed over the button . The default is for button titles to be displayed.

sampli ng interval (in seconds ) for port status in the graphical cont rol pane ls ( Closeu p View s). Th e defa ult is 10 seconds .

sampli ng interval (i n seconds) fo r the “LAN Activit y%” and the “Col lision%” gauges in the graphical con trol panels (Closeup Views). The default is 5 seconds.

“LAN Activity%” gauges in graphical control panels (Closeup Views) c hange color from green to yellow, and from yellow to red. The de fault levels are 30% and 50%, respectively.

Sliding Bars are used to specify the levels at which the “Collis ion% ” gauges i n gra phical cont rol pa nel s (Clos eup Views ) change color fr om green to yell ow, an d from yellow to red. The default levels are 30% and 50%, respectively.

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Graph Options Parameters

HP Admin graph options parameters enable you to control different aspects of the graphing feature. The parameters are described in the following table.

Table 10-3. Graph Option Parameters

Parameter Description

Graph Log For mat This parameter all o w s you to choose the format o f the

inform ation logg ed to a graph log fi le fr om the Gr aph Cou nte rs function.

• T ext : Data wil l be logged to the l og file as stra ight AS CII text . The default is “Text”.

• Spreadsh eet-Tab: Data will be logged to the l og fi le as AS CII text sep arated by ta bs for ease of exporting the data to spreadsheets that use tabs.

• Spreadsh eet-Comma: Data will be logged to t he file as ASCII text sep ara ted by commas for ease of expo rti ng th e dat a to spreadsheets that use commas.

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Graph Digits to Display This param eter is set by a sliding ba r and specifies the

Graph Interval This p a rameter is set by a sl iding bar and specifies the default

Graph Log Fi le The parameters set in this section specifies the fi le name for

Enable Graph Sensitive Scaling

maximum num ber of digi ts disp layed for a counter value before displaying the value in scientific notation. The default is 4.

sampling time interval (hh: mm:ss) for graphing . The minimum setting is 1 second. The maximum value is 9999:59:59. The defaul t is 20 seconds.

the graph log file and the size of the log file. Default log file name is “graphs.log” Default l og fi le s iz e is 12 800 0 b ytes. T he mi nim um log f ile si ze is

10000 byt es. The maxim um is 2 This parameter controls the scaling of graphs. The default is

“disabled”. If enabled , the “Y -axis” graphing sca le will automatically adjust

to display only the ran ge of values needed. A more detailed view of th e graph will be displayed.

If disabled, the “Y-axis” graphing scale will start at zero. The upper limit will aut om atically a djust to the power of 10 as needed.

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Printer Conf iguration Parameters

Network management applications that implement printer support on X Window systems can use the Print Configuration dialog box to configure printer configuration parameters.

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Figure 10-2. Printer Config uration

Table 10-4. Printer Configuration Parameters

Parameter Description

Default Printer Displays the current default pr inter name. This printer w ill be used if

the choice of printers is not overridden.

Installed Printers Provides a sorted list of all currently configured printers. The

currently displayed printer updates the “lp command” and “Output Format” boxes.

lp command Shows the device name and port for the curre ntly selected printer,

Output Format Identifies th e dr iver ty pe o f the p ri nter tha t i s cur ren tly s el ect ed. T he

and the lp co mmand string . The lp command is used to redir ect the output to a specific devi ce—print ed output is “piped” into the command specified by the lp command text. Your can modify the lp command string to meet your pri nter requirements. See your HP-UX man pages for more information on the lp command.

lp command string must be compatible wi th the format identif ied in this box. You may need to edit the lp command string or choose another printer.

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Table 10-4. Printer Configuration Parameters

Parameter Description

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Set As Default Sets the pr inter se lect ed in the “Inst alled Pr inte rs” box as the de fault

printe r . Remove Removes a select ed printer from the “Installed Printers” li st. Add Displays a list of supported printers that you can sel ect and add to

the “Installed Printers” list. Test Print Prints a sample test file to a selected printer if the printer

configu ration has been saved (see the OK button). OK Saves the configu rati on and ret urns to t he mai n HP Admin dialog box. Cancel Returns to the main HP Admin dia log box without saving

configuration changes. Help Accesses the HP Admin online help system.

OpenView Configurat ion Options

You can change the way that OpenView and HP Hub & Switch Management interact by setting these options:

■ ForceMapUpdates

■ NoMapWalk

■ Trace

■ Distributed Console

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These options provid e advanced tun ing capabiliti es for kn owledgeable u sers of OpenView. You do not need to use them to run the application.

Any changes that you make will not take effect until the next time that OpenView (ovw) is run.

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Figure 10-3. OpenView Configuration Options

The options are described in more detail here.

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ForceMapUpdates. If the attributes (name of icon, application name) of a symbol are changed, for example, during an update, the symbol must be reregistered with OpenV iew for the change s to take effect. Sel ecting this opti on will update the symbol the next time that the master copy of OpenView (ovw) is run. If this option is not set, symbols that are already executable are not updated with the new information.

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NoMapWalk. When you start HP Hub & Switch Management, it can take a long time to scan (“walk”) a large OpenVi ew map to get the information need ed to provide full functionality . When the NoMapW alk option is selected, HP Hub & Switch Management start up time is great ly d ecreased.

When NoMapWalk is enabled, the symbols of newly discovered devices wi ll not be executable with a double-mouse-click. You must click on the device in the OpenView map, then use the Monitor menu (select HP Hub/Bridge) to display the device's Closeup View. You als o wil l lo se the ability to perform batch security settings.

Trace. This option is provided to assist support personnel in tracking down problems related to OpenView integration with HP Hub & Switch Management. Do not set this option unless you are told to do so by support personnel.

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Distributed Console. HP Hub & Switch Management is started remotely when you use Network Node Manager’s Distributed Console feature from a client station. The program “ovexec” displays a pop-up window in which you enter a password for the remote system. If you do not want this pop-up to be displayed, that is, you do not wish to enter a password, select the “remsh” option to start HP Hub & Switch Management remotely.

Note: If you select “remsh”, the name of your client machine must be in the /etc/h os ts .eq ui v file or the $HOME/.rhosts file on the remote system. Refer to these man pages for more information on these files:

hosts.equiv

man

rhosts

man

Browser Lau nc h. Y ou can enter the full path name for the browser that will launch when you click on a device that is manageable with a browser, for example:

/opt/netscape/netscape

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Management for Non-Browserable Devic es

This chapter provides a summary of hub, bridge, and switch management functions for devices that cannot be managed with the Web browser interface. It includes the following topics:

■ About Closeup Views

■ Overview of Tool bar Functi ons

Use the online help for more information about specific device functions.

About Closeup Views

HP Hub & Switch Management provides direct acce ss to HP hub, bridge, and switch management for devi ces that are no t manageab le with a W e b browser through graphical co n trol panels, or Closeup Views. If you have switching hubs, you can also use the Closeup View to create and modify segments in your network.

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A Closeup View is an interactive, visual display of a devi ce. Y o u can use the Closeup Vie w to obtai n devi ce status, and run Hub & Switch Management command functions through push-button icons and menus. There is a Closeup View for most HP managed devices.

There will be differences in the available function icons depending on the device type. Icons for fun ctions that are not available fo r s ome de vices will either not be selectable (grayed out) or will not appear. Also, menu options launched from icons that are not available for some devices either will not appear , or if they appear, they will not be selectable. For information on device management funct ions for any particul ar device, refer to the o nline help in the Closeup View .

For HP AdvanceStack hubs, Closeup Views are available for managing all hubs on a Distributed Management Chain. Closeup Vi ews for chained hubs that are without SNMP modules are accessed through the appropriate SNMP-based hub's Closeup View . F unctions that are not avai lable for chained hubs will not be selectable.

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About Closeup Views

Note

HP Hub & Switch Management now supports non-pulick community names when displaying the Closup View. For configuring non-public community names, refer to the HP OpenView Using Network Node Manager manual.

Displaying the Closeup View

You can display a Closeup View in several ways, including the following:

■ From an HP OpenVi ew map, use the l eft mouse button an d double-click

on a hub, bridge, or switch symbol.

■ On an HP OpenView map, select a hub, bridge, or switch symbol. Then

display the Monitor menu and select HP Hub/Switch.

■ From a Closeup View of an SNMP-based AdvanceStack hub, display the

list of chained hubs by clicking on the Chained Devices button. The list displayed iden tifies each chained hub by MAC address an d hub type. Select the MAC address for the desired hub.

■ Right-mouse-click on a device symbol and select Monitor HP Hub/

Switch.

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About Closeup Views

Figure 11-1. Switching Hub Closeup View

The number of Closeup Views that you can display at one time depends on your free system resour ces available (such as avai lab le memory).

If the HP devic e can be m anaged with y our br owser, the menu option SNMP Confi g ure HP Hu b/Swit ch will also display when you right-mouse-click on a device symbol. Selecting this feature allow s you to conf igure community names and authorized managers for the device. See the online help for configuration instructions.

Closeup View Areas

The regions of the Closeup View are discussed below .

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About Closeup Views

Title Bar

At the top of the Cl oseup View is a title b ar that displays the dev ice type and its network address.

Message Bar

The Message Bar is al ong the botto m of th e Clo seup V iew. It is primari ly used to identify , or describe the purpose of, various items in the view. Simply place the cursor on an item and read the appropriate box in the Message Bar.

If a port is selected, the center box in the Message Bar identifies the selected port (for example, “Port A9”).

Toolbar

The Toolbar contains buttons to perform Hub & Switch Management commands and functions. If you place the cursor over a Toolbar button, message bar text is displayed that id en tifies the command or function. (See the online help for a description of the Toolbar icons.)

Activity Gauges

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Two linear bar charts, or “gauges”, are displayed o n most Closeup Views. These gauges provide indications of LAN traffic sampled by the device. The gauges are:

■ Activity%—Represents the total LAN activity viewed by all segments

attached to the device as a percent of the total bandwidth of the segments .

■ Collisions%—Shows the total collisions viewed by all segments attached

to the device as a percentage of total packets seen by these segments.

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Hub LAN Ports

The Closeup View allows you to v iew each hub port and determine port status. Port status can be determined by the port icon symbol and colors displayed.

Y ou can individually select any port on a Closeup View by clicking on the port itself. The port numbe r will be displayed in the messag e bar. If you select a port, you can perform management functions through the applicable Toolbar button. (If passwords are used, you must be logged onto the hub to change a port's configuration.)

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Overview of Toolbar Functions

HP Hub & Switch Management device functions in the Closeup Views allow you to configure, monitor and manage HP hubs, bridges, and switches.

The following table summarizes the Toolbar menu functions in the Closeup Views. For specific information about how to use a particular device function or menu dialog box, click on the Help button in the dialog box.

Table 11-1. Summary of Toolbar Functions

Icon Toolbar Button Des cription

Device ID Displays identificatio n information for an HP hub,

bridge or switch. For example, you can determine the device type, firmware vers ion, and MAC address.

Graph Counters Displays the Graph Counters - Graph window for

graphing various counters and statis tical formulas on a dev ice. The defau lt g raph i s the L AN Ac ti vit y% statistics. If you position the cursor over the graphing area and press the right mouse button, a pop-up menu i s displayed. Select “Options” to modify the counters and devices for graphing, and to configure other graphing options .

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Port Statistics Display s gauges f or view ing statist ical coun ters f or

a segment and s elected port s on the segment.

• Hubs: gauges for LAN Acti vity, Error Packets, and Broadca st Packets are displayed.

• Bridges : gauges for Broadcast Pack ets, Pac kets Forwarded, Packets Filtered, and Error Packets are displayed.

• Switches: gauges for LAN Activity, Packets Forwarded, Packets Filtered, Broadcasts Received, Collisions, and Errors Received are displayed.

Port Statistics Summary

Displays an information wi ndow that lists i mporta nt statistics and counter values for each port on the device. The displayed counters wil l differ depending o n the devic e type ( for exa mple, 10Bas eT hub, 100VG hub, 10/100 swi tch, or bridg e).

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Overview of Toolbar Functions

Table 11-1. Summary of Toolbar Functions

Icon Toolbar Button Description

Logon Displays a Logon di alog box. If a hub, bridge or

Configuration Displays a tabbed dialog box for device

Diagnose Displays a pop-up menu list of device or network

switch has a p assword, you must first log on to it before you can change configuration or security feature s, or r un d iagnos ti c t ests . Lo gon pass words are set up using the Conf iguratio n button ( select Set Administration). If you forget a pas sw ord, you may need to go to t he device t o c le ar th e p ass wor d ( see your device m anuals).

configuration (The tabs displayed depend on the device):

• Administration

•IP Config

• Thresholds

• Port Confi g uration

• Backup Link s

• Upload

• Download

• Monitor Port

•Address Table

• Wild Character Filter

• Spanning Tree

• Bridge Conf iguration

test func tions. The tests that can be performed depend on the type of device.

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Security Displays a tabbed dialog box for configuring

security:

• Authorized Managers: The network management s tati ons that can send and rec eive SNMP requests for this device.

• Community Names: Names that are valid for SNMP request s to th e devic e or stack of hubs. A read and wri te level are specified for each community name.

• Securit y Policy: Set global security for al l devices of the same type on your network.

• Port Security: Configure Intruder Det e ction and Eavesdrop P revention for each port.

• Intrusion Log: View security intrusions for a device.

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Table 11-1. Summary of Toolbar Functions

Icon Toolbar Button Des cription

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Enable Port Enables a selected hub port. If a password is

Disable Port Disables a selected hub port. If a password is

Logoff Displays a Logoff dialog box. If a hu b or bridge has

VLAN Configuration

Properties D isplays a dialog box that allow s you to view or

assigne d to the hub, you must log on to the hub before yo u can change the state of a port.

a password, you can log off the device to prevent configuration changes.

Displays the VLAN Configuration window.

change information about a selected VLAN or segment:

• Port number

• Name of VLAN

• Connected status

• Enabled/Disabled st atus

• Active status

• Protocol type

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Large icons Displays ports as large icons.

Small icons Displays ports as small icons.

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Table 11-1. Summary of Toolbar Functions

Icon Toolbar Button Description

List Lists all port icons in rows.

Details List inform ation with each port:

• Port number

• Segment to which the port belongs

• Connected status: currently connected to a device

• Status: the po rt is enabled or dis abled.

Help Runs the Hub & Switch Management online help

system.

indi cates whether the port is

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Configuration Funct ions

The Configuration button displays a menu that allows you to perform configuration functions for the device. The menu items displ ayed depend on the type of device.

See the online help for details about the Configuration menu items.

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Setting the Configuration Parameters

When you select the Configuration icon, the Configuration tabbed dialog box displays. By clicking on the appropriate tab, you can configure parameters for your devices as well as performing software uploads to and downloads from a configuration file. See the online help to obtain instructions for configuring a specific function.

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Agent Firmware Versions

Appendix A contains the following topics:

■ Agent Firmware Versions

■ Preparing Network Devices

■ Globally Assign ed IP Network Addresses

■ Configuring IP Parameters

Agent Firmware Versions

HP Hub & Switch Management communicates with network devices using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).To access device features, each network device must conta in a compatibl e version of agent softw are or firmware.

Note: The latest firmware agents can be obtained from the Support section of the HP networking W eb page. The URL is:

http://www.hp.com/go/procurve

Verifying Device Agent Versions

You can check the agent version on an HP device using one of the following methods:

■ Use the device's console port interface (a non-network connection).

Y ou can connect a terminal or computer directly to the device or through a modem. Refer to t he devi ce' s Installation and Reference Guide for use of the device's RS-232 console port.

• For HP devices, you can use an ASCII terminal or computer wi th VT 100 terminal emulation.

■ Use an available network application (a network connection).

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Preparing Network Devices

For HP devices, use an existing version of HP Hub & Switch Management or other device management utility.

Update the device's softwar e or firmware to the current supported version.

Note: HP Hub & Switch Management may be able to discover devices that have previo us versions of device agent firmware. However, the use of some functions may be limited.

Preparing Networ k De vices

For HP Hub & Switch Management to communicate with devices on your network, the network devices must:

■ have SNMP agent firmware th at is compatible with this version of HP Hub

& Switch Management.

■ for IP networks, have a unique IP network address.

Note: Hubs and bridges shipped prior to July 1992 must be upgraded.

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Basic hub management feature s are avail able for chained Adva nceStack hubs if they are connected to an SNMP-based hub of the same media type (10BaseT or 100VG) over a Distributed Management chain.

Device Network Addresses

On an IP network, each managed device must have an IP address. If you intend to run HP Hub & Switch Management on an IP network, you must configure the IP address for each device you want to manage.

IP addresses are normally co n figured when the device is installed. For HP hubs, bridges, and switches, IP addresses are configured using the console port interface. For more details on console port connection and available commands, see the device 's Installation and Reference Guide.

Note: You can use HP Hub & Swi tch Managemen t to cha nge a n IP address on a hub af ter it ha s be en as sig ne d, but not o n a sw itch o r a

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bridge.

Globally Assigned IP Network Addresses

If you intend to connect your network to other networks that use globally administered IP add resses, Hewlett-Packard strongly recommends that you use IP addresses t hat have bee n assigned to you. There is a fo rmal proces s for assigning unique IP addresses to networks worldwide. Contact one of the following companies:

United States and countries not in Europe or Asia/Pacific

Europe RIPE NCC

Asia/Pacific Attention: IN-ADDR.ARPA Registration

Network Solutions, Inc. Attn: InterNIC Registration Service 505 Huntmar Park Drive Herndon, VA 22070

Kruislaan 409NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands

Asia Pacific Network Inform ation Center c/o Internet Initiative Japan, Inc. Sanbancho Anne x Bldg. 1-4 Sanban-cho , Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102, Japan

For more information, refer to Internetworking with TCP/I P: Principl es, Protocols and Architecture by Douglas E. Comer (Prentice-Hall, Inc.,

publisher).

1-703-7 42-4777 question s@internic.net http://rs.internic.net

+31 20 592 506 5 ncc@ripe.net http://ww w.ripe.net

domreg@apnic.net http://www.apnic.net

Configuring IP Parameters

T o run HP Hub and Switch Management on an IP network, you must configure the management station and all managed devices for IP.

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The network management statio n is co nfigured for IP using the TCP/IP st ack utilities. To configure a device for IP, you typically connect to the device's console port and use the cons ol e port in terface. (Refer to the device's installation manual for more information.)

Before you configure the network management station and manageable devices for IP, make a list of all the device s on the network and what their IP addresses will be.

Note: Make sure that every device has a unique IP address. Make sure that all devices on a given IP network number have the same subnet mask.

The IP configuration parameters are described below.

IP Address . The IP address of the hub, bridge, or switch is written in the format X.X.X. X, where each X is a d ecimal nu mber betwe en 1 and 254. Every IP address on a network must be unique.

The default val u e, 0.0.0.0, dis ab les IP communications. Use the default value only if you are not going to manage the device with HP Hub & Switch Management and you want to disable IP communicatio n s for that device.

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Subnet Mask. The bit mask defines which portion of the IP address is the subnet address and is written in the format X.X.X.X. The default value is automatically generated and depends on the class of IP address that you entered. See your network administrator for the subnet mask address. All devices on a given IP network number must use the same subnet mask address.

Primary Default Router . The routing IP address o f the nearest r outer in your network. The default is 0.0.0.0.

Backup Default Route r. Th e IP address of th e router t o use when the primary default router is inaccessible. The default value is 0.0.0.0. If there is no backup router and no primary default router, use the default.

Time To Live . The number of IP routers a packet is allowed to cross before the packet is di scarded. The d efault value is 32. Increa se thi s value if t he hub, bridge, or switch is managed from a network management station that is more than 32 routers away. The maximum allowable value is 255.

Note: For selected devices, such as the HP J2980A AdvanceStack 10/ 100 LAN Switc h-1 6 , you mus t preco n fi gure the SN MP communi ty

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name “public” on the device to allow the device to be discover ed and managed by HP Hub and Switch Management. Typically, the community name on HP hubs and bridges will automatically default to “public”.

T o confi gure a device for IP network s, use the devi ce's console port inter face. Refer to t he d evice's Installation and Reference Guide fo r use of the de vice's RS-232 console port.

Note: For HP hubs, HP Hub & Switch Management can be used to change IP addresses afte r they have been initially assigned during installation.

Network Bootp Server

HP EtherTwist Hub Plus/24S and HP AdvanceStack 10Base-T hubs (with SNMP modules installed) support the use of Bootp (Bootstrap Protocol) to automatically retrieve their IP config uration from a server on the network. A device's IP configuration must be configured in a file on the Bootp server. When the device is powered on, Bootp is used to automatically download the IP configuration to the device.

■ Each device that supports Bootp must have Bootp enabled to retrieve its

IP configuration from the server. The factory default setting is for Bootp operation to be enabled. You can enable or disable Bootp operation through the device's console port, or from a network management application (such as HP Hub & Switch Management).

■ For more information on IP configuration using Bootp, refer to your

device's Installation and Reference Guide.

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HP Hub Switch Management User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Information About HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-UX

Introduction

Features of HP Hub & Switch Management

HP Proactive Networking

Support for N ew Devices

Technical Product Support

Before Installing HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-UX

Support Information

Management Station Requirements

Required Network Configuration

Required Patches

Before Installing HP Hub & Switch Management

Removing HP Hub & Switch Managemen t

Introduction to HP Hub & Switch Management

HP Hub & Sw itch Management Overv iew

HP OpenView Netw ork Management Platform

Definitions, Processes, and Files

SNMP Manager and Agents

Communit y Na mes for Manager and Agent Interaction

What HP Devices Can Be Managed

Running HP Hub & Switch Management

Starting the Manager Application

Starting HP OpenView

Verifying Installation of the Manager Pr oduct Set

Stopping and Restarti ng the Manager Application

Stopping the Manager

Restarting the Mana ger

Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

HP Proactive Networking

Control

Uptime

Performance

Inter preting the Alert Log - Find/Fix/Inform

Accessing Hub Features

More Information on Device Features

Accessing the Device View

Viewing Device Identity Information

Interpreting Device Status

Reading the Performance Gauges

Status - Global Counters

Configuring Your Device

Status - Por t Co unters

Configura tion - Fault Detectio n

Configura tion - System Information

Configuri ng IP

Port Configuration

Configuration - Backup Links

Configuring Load Balancing - Switching Hubs

Configuration - Support URL

Managing Switches

Switch Status

Status - Overview

Status - Por t Co unters

Status - Por t Status

Identity

Configuration

Device View

Configura tion - Fault Detectio n

Configura tion - System Information

Configuration - IP Configuratio n

Configura tion - Port Configur ation

Configuration - Assigning a Monitoring Port

Configuration - Device Features

Automatic Broadcast Control (ABC)

Internet Gro up Management Pr otocol (IGMP)

The Spanning Tree Protocol

Configura tion - Support/Mgm t U R Ls

Setting Up Security for a Device

Device Passwords

Manager/Opera to r Passw ord Combinations

The Funct ion of Commun ity Names

Port Security

Address Sele ctio n

Authorized Address

Eavesdrop Prevention

Send Alarm