Nortel Passport 8600, Passport 8100, Passport 8000 Configuring

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August 2007

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Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Text conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Hard-copy technical manuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

How to get help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 1

Managing the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Switch management tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Command line interface (CLI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Web management interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Dynamic network applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

SNMP Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

RMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 2

Configuring RMON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Configuring RMON using Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Layer 2 / Layer 3 redundancy clarification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

L3 redundancy limitations and considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Enabling RMON globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using Ethernet statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Enabling RMON statistics (default) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Verifying RMON statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Enabling RMON statistics (nondefault) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Disabling RMON statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Viewing statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Understanding RMON history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Enabling RMON history (default) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Enabling RMON history (nondefault) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Disabling RMON history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Viewing history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Configuring RMON alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Creating a port history alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Viewing RMON statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Viewing log files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Deleting alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Understanding RMON events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Creating events (default) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Creating events (nondefault) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Viewing events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Deleting events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

HP OpenView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Understanding the “log only” event bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Working around the private management trap bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuring RMON using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Viewing RMON settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Chapter 3

Configuring the Web management interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Monitoring the switch using Web management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Installing Help files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Installing Help files in a Windows environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Installing Help files in a UNIX environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Specifying the Help file location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Enabling the Web server using Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Enabling the Web server using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Showing web-server status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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Accessing the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Troubleshooting Web interface access to a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Chapter 4

Configuring and graphing ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Configuring a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Editing ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Setting a basic configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Opening a dual tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Configuring routing operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Assigning an IP address on a brouter port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Configuring VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Detecting VLAN Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Configuring spanning tree groups (STG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Configuring MAC learning parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Setting rate limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Testing ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Performing an external loopback test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Performing an internal loopback test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Configuring address resolution protocols (ARP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Configuring dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Configuring distance vector multicast routing protocol (DVMRP) . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Configuring Internet group management protocol (IGMP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Configuring open shortest path first (OSPF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Configuring routing information protocol (RIP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Configuring protocol independent multicast (PIM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Configuring pragmatic general multicast (PGM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Configuring virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Discovering routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Inserting an IPX BRouter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Graphing port statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Graphing interface statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Graphing ethernet error statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Graphing bridging statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Graphing spanning tree statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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Graphing unicast and multicast traffic statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Graphing RMON statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Graphing RMON History statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Graphing DCHP statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Graphing OSPF statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Graphing VRRP statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Chapter 5

Configuring and graphing chassis information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Editing the chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Editing system information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Editing chassis information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Enabling L2/L3static routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Disabling L2/L3static routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Viewing L2/L3 Redundancy status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Reserving records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Viewing the boot configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Editing trap receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Checking system performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Setting the time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Editing cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Editing card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Editing boot file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Displaying flash and PCMCIA statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Displaying flash file information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Displaying PCMCIA file information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Editing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Editing management port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Editing management port route table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Editing serial ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Editing fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Editing MDAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Editing power supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Editing FileSystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Copying a PCMCIA or flash file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

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Displaying flash and PCMCIA statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Displaying flash file information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Displaying PCMCIA file information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Editing ATM and POS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Graphing chassis statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Graphing SNMP statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Graphing IP statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Graphing ICMP In statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Graphing ICMP Out statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Graphing OSPF statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Appendix A

RMON alarm variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

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Tables

Table 1 Port shortcut menu fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Table 2 RmonControl Ethernet Statistics tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Table 3 RmonControl, Insert Ethernet Statistics tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Table 4 RmonControl dialog box fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Table 6 RmonAlarms dialog box—Events tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Table 7 Web tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Table 8 Interface tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Table 9 Dual tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Table 10 Port, Insert IP Address dialog box fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Table 11 VLAN tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Table 12 LoopDetect dialog box fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Table 13 STG tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Table 14 MAC Learning tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Table 15 Rate Limiting tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Table 16 Test tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Table 17 ARP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Table 18 DHCP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Table 19 DVMRP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Table 20 IGMP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Table 21 OSPF tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Table 22 RIP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Table 23 PIM tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Table 24 PGM tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Table 25 VRRP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Table 26 Router Discovery tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Table 27 Insert IPX BRouter dialog box fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Table 28 Graph Interface tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Table 29 Ethernet Errors tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Table 30 Bridging tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

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Table 31 Spanning Tree tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Table 32 Routing tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Table 35 DHCP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Table 36 OSPF tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Table 37 VRRP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Table 38 System tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Table 39 Chassis tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Table 40 L2 Redundancy tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Table 41 Boot Config tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Table 42 Trap Receivers tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Table 43 Performance tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Table 44 User Set Time tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Table 45 Card tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Table 46 Boot tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Table 47 Device tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Table 48 Flash Files tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Table 49 PCMCIA Files tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Table 50 Mgmt Port dialog box fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Table 51 Mgmt Port Route Table, Insert CPU Route Table dialog box fields . . . . . 179

Table 52 Serial Port dialog box fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Table 53 Fan dialog box fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Table 54 MDA dialog box fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Table 55 PowerSupply Detail tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Table 56 Copy File tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Table 57 Device Info tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Table 58 Flash Files tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Table 59 PCMCIA Files tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Table 60 SNMP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Table 61 IP tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Table 62 ICMP In tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Table 63 ICMP Out tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Table 64 OSPF tab fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

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Figure 1 Enabling RMON statistics on a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 2 RmonControl dialog box—Ethernet Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Figure 3 RmonControl and Insert Ethernet Statistics dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 4 GraphPort dialog box—Interface tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 5 RmonControl and RmonControl, Insert History dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . 39

Figure 6 GraphPort dialog box—RMON History tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Figure 7 How alarms fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Figure 8 Alarm example—threshold less than 260 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Figure 9 Alarm Manager dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Figure 10 Enabling RMON statistics and history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Figure 11 Chassis dialog box—Trap Receivers tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Figure 12 Chassis, Insert Trap Receivers dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Figure 13 RmonAlarms dialog box—Events tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Figure 14 Deleting an alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Figure 15 RmonAlarms, Insert Events dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Figure 16 RmonAlarms dialog box—Events tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Figure 17 Chassis dialog box—System tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Figure 18 Security dialog box—Web tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Figure 19 Web logon page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Figure 21 Port dialog box—Dual tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 24 Port, Insert IP Address dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 26 Loop Detected dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Figure 30 Port dialog box—Test tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Figure 40 Port, Insert VRRP dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Figure 43 Port, Insert IPX BRouter dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Figure 49 GraphPort dialog box—RMON tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Figure 50 GraphPort dialog box—RMON History tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Figure 51 Port dialog box—DHCP tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Figure 52 GraphPort dialog box—DHCP tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

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Figure 53 GraphPort dialog box—OSPF tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Figure 54 VRRP dialog box—VRRP Stats tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Figure 55 Chassis dialog box—System tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Figure 56 Chassis dialog box—Chassis tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Figure 57 Chassis dialog box—L2/L3 Redundancy tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Figure 58 Enable HA-CPU message box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Figure 59 Disable HA-CPU message box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Figure 60 Chassis dialog box—Record Reservation tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Figure 61 Chassis dialog box—Boot Config tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Figure 63 Chassis dialog box—Performance tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Figure 64 Chassis dialog box—User Set Time tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Figure 65 Card dialog box—Card tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Figure 66 Card dialog box—Boot tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Figure 67 Card dialog box—Device tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Figure 68 Card dialog box—Flash Files tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Figure 69 Card dialog box—PCMCIA Files tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Figure 70 Mgmt Port dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Figure 71 Mgmt Port Route Table, Insert CPU Route Table dialog box . . . . . . . . . 179

Figure 72 Serial Port dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Figure 73 Fan dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Figure 74 MDA dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Figure 75 PowerSupply dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Figure 76 FileSystem dialog box—Copy File tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Figure 78 FileSystem dialog box—Flash Files tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Figure 79 FileSystem dialog box—PCMCIA Files tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

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August 2007

CR Q01726266: Added the following Note: If you are configuring a port as
Administratively down, it is advisable to consider disabling linktrap. If y ou do not
disable linktrap, unnecessary Traps set off alarms for these unused ports during
reboots.

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Preface

Nortel Networks* Passport 8000 Series* switch is a flexible and multifunctional
switch that supports a diverse range of network architectures and protocols. This
guide to network management for the Passport 8000 Series switch provides
information about the three switch management tools, the Dynamic network
applications feature, SNMP, and RMON, describes how to configure the Web
management interface, and describes how to graph port and chassis statistics.

Before you begin

This guide is intended for network designers and administrators with the
following background:

• Basic knowledge of networks, Ethernet bridging, and IP and IPX routing

• Familiarity with networking concepts and terminology

• Basic knowledge of network topologies

• Experience with windowing systems or graphical user interfaces (GUIs)

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Text conventions

This guide uses the following text conventions:

angle brackets (< >) Indicate that you choose the text to enter based on the description

inside the brackets. Do not type the brackets when entering the
command.

Example: If the command syntax is

ping <ip_address>, you enter

ping 192.32.10.12

bold Courier text

Indicates command names and options and text that you need to
enter.

Example: Use the dinfo command.
Example: Enter

show ip {alerts|routes}.

braces ({}) Indicate required elements in syntax descriptions where there is

more than one option. You must choose only one of the options. Do
not type the braces when entering the command.

Example: If the command syntax is

show ip {alerts|routes}, you must enter either
show ip alerts or show ip routes, but not both.

brackets ([ ]) Indicate optional elements in syntax descriptions. Do not type the

brackets when entering the command.
Example: If the command syntax is

show ip interfaces [-alerts], you can enter

either show ip interfaces or

show ip interfaces -alerts.

italic text Indicates new terms, book titles, and variables in command syntax

descriptions. Where a variable is two or more words, the words are
connected by an underscore.

Example: If the command syntax is

show at <valid_route>, valid_route is one

variable and you substitute one value for it.

plain Courier
text

Indicates command syntax and system output, for example,
prompts and system messages.

Example:

Set Trap Monitor Filters

separator ( > ) Shows menu paths.

Example: Protocols > IP identifies the IP command on the
Protocols menu.

vertical line ( | ) Separates choices for command keywords and ar guments. Enter

only one of the choices. Do not type the vertical line when enter ing
the command.

Example: If the command syntax is

show ip {alerts|routes}, you enter either
show ip alerts or show ip routes, but not

both.

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Acronyms

This guide uses the following acronyms:

Hard-copy technical manuals

You can print selected technical manuals and release notes free, directly from the
Internet. Go to the www.nortel.com/documentation URL. Find the product for
which you need documentation. Then locate the specific category and model or
version for your hardware or software product. Use Adobe* Acrobat Reader* to
open the manuals and release notes, search for the sections you need, and print
them on most standard printers. Go to Adobe Systems at the www.adobe.com
URL to download a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

How to get help

If you purchased a service contract for your Nortel Networks product from a
distributor or authorized reseller, contact the technical support staff for that
distributor or reseller for assistance.

ARP Address Resolution Protocol
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DVMRP

Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol

IGMP

Internet Gateway Message Protocol

IP Internet Protocol
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange
MAC media access control
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
PGM Pragmatic General Multicast
PIM Protocol Independent Multicast
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RMON Remote Monitoring
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

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If you purchased a Nortel Networks service program, contact Nortel Networks
Technical Support. To obtain contact information online, go to the

www.nortel.com/cgi-bin/comments/comments.cgi URL, then click on Technical

Support.

From the Technical Support page, you can open a Customer Service Request
online or find the telephone number for the nearest Technical Solutions Center.
If you are not connected to the Internet, you can call 1-800-4NORTEL
(1-800-466-7835) to learn the telephone number for the nearest Technical
Solutions Center.

An Express Routing Code (ERC) is available for many Nortel Networks products
and services. When you use an ERC, your call is routed to a technical support
person who specializes in supporting that product or service. To locate an ERC for
your product or service, go to the http://www.nortel.com/help/contact/erc/

index.html URL.

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Managing the switch

This chapter describes the three management tools that are available to monitor
and manage your routing switch, and provides overviews for Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote monitoring (RMON). It includes the
following topics:

Switch management tools

Three management tools are available to monitor and manage your routing switch:

• Command line interface (CLI)

• Device Manager software

• Web management interface

Topic Pa g e

Switch management tools 22

Dynamic network applications 24

SNMP 24

RMON 26

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Command line interface (CLI)

To access the CLI initially, you need a direct connection to the switch from a
terminal or PC. After Telnet access is enabled, you can access the CLI from a
Telnet session on the network.

The CLI consists of two sets of commands that are accessed in different ways.
While the switch is booting, you can interrupt the boot process and display the
Boot Monitor CLI, which contains commands used to configure boot options and
to manage files in flash memory. When the switch completes its boot sequence,
the login screen for the Run-Time CLI is displayed. The Run-Time CLI contains
commands to configure switch operations and management access.

For information about connecting a console terminal, see Getting Started. For
information about the Boot Monitor and Run-Time CLIs, see Managing Platform
Operations and Using Diagnostic Tools.

Device Manager

Device Manager is an SNMP-based graphical user interface (GUI) tool designed
to manage single devices. To use Device Manager, you must have network
connectivity to a management station running Device Manager in one of the
supported environments.

Web management interface

The Web management interface is a Web-based GUI tool that operates in
conjunction with a Web browser. It is designed to monitor a single device and is
intended for use as a tool to access and monitor devices on your network from
various locations within the network. To configure the switch, use the CLI or
Device Manager.

To access the Web interface, you need a Web browser and an IP address for the
switch. For more information about the Web interface, see Chapter 2.

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Dynamic network applications

The remote access services supported on the Passport 8000 Series switch (that is,
ftp, tftp, rlogin, and Telnet) use daemons. To enhance security, these daemons are
started unconditionally.

When a flag is disabled, all existing connections are abruptly terminated, and the
daemon remains idle (does not accept connection requests). Additionally, if
HA-CPU is on and you disable a daemon, all the existing connections, even to the
standby CPU, are abruptly terminated.

You use the following Dynamic network applications to manage the remote access
services:

• Access policies

• Port lock

• CLI access

• SNMP community strings

• Web management interface access

For instructions on enabling remote access services, see Getting Started.

For information about setting access policies, locking a port, accessing the CLI,
and setting SNMP community strings, see Configuring and Managing Security.

For information about accessing the Web management interface, see Chapter 3.

SNMP

SNMP is a simple request/response protocol that communicates management
information between two types of SNMP software entities: SNMP applications
(also called SNMP managers) and SNMP agents.

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SNMP applications contain manager software that runs on a network management
station (also known as an SNMP client), such as a PC or a workstation. The
manager software implements the protocols used to exchange data with SNMP
agents. SNMP applications issue queries to gather information about the status,
configuration, and performance of external network devices, called network
elements in SNMP terminology. Network elements contain an agent and perform
the network management function that the network management stations request.

The SNMP agent is a software entity that responds to information and action
request messages (SNMP get and set requests) sent by a network management
station (for example, a Device Manager workstation). The messages exchanged
between manager and switch SNMP agents enable you to access and manage
objects in an active or inactive (stored) management information base (MIB) on a
switch.

The agents also send unsolicited reports, called traps, back to the network
management station when certain network activity occurs. An example of a trap is
an overload condition as defined by the packet load’s crossing some threshold.
You use the management station to configure, monitor, and receive trap messages
from other network devices configured as SNMP agents. The management station
can get and set objects in the agents and can receive traps from the agents. The
management station, therefore, has the capability to “manage” a number of
agents.

SNMP Communities

For security reasons, the SNMP agent validates each request from an SNMP
manager before responding to the request, by verifying that the manager belongs
to a valid SNMP community. An SNMP community is a logical relationship
between an SNMP agent and one or more SNMP managers (the manager software
implements the protocols used to exchange data with SNMP agents). You define
communities locally at the agent.

The agent establishes one community for each combination of authentication and
access control characteristics that you choose. You assign each community a
unique name (within the agent), and all members of a community have the same
access privileges, either read-only or read-write:

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Read-write: members can view configuration and performance information, and
also change the configuration.

By defining a community, an agent limits access to its MIB to a selected set of
management stations. By using more than one community, the agent can provide
different levels of MIB access to different management stations.

For more information about configuring SNMP settings (including creating
community strings and setting traps) using the Device Manager, see Installing and
Using Device Manager and Configuring and Managing Security. For more
information about configuring SNMP settings using the CLI, see Getting Started
and Configuring and Managing Security.

RMON

Remote monitoring (RMON) is a management information base (MIB) or a group
of “management objects” that you use to “get” or “set” values using Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Using the CLI or Device Manager, you
enable RMON globally for devices on the switch. When RMON is enabled
globally, you then enable monitoring for individual devices on a port-by-port
basis.

RMON has four major functions:

• Setting alarms for user-defined events

• Gathering real-time and historical Ethernet statistics

• Logging events

• Sending traps for events

Within Device Manager, you can set RMON alarms that relate to specific events
or variables simply by selecting these variables from a drop-down menu. You
specify events associated with alarms to be set to either trap or log-and-trap. In
turn, these alarms, when tripped, are trapped or logged.

All RMON information is viewable within both Device Manager and the CLI.
Alternatively you can use any management application that supports SNMP traps
(such as Optivity NMS

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Configuring RMON

This chapter describes how to configure and use Remote Network Monitoring
(RMON) using Device Manager and the CLI. It includes the following topics:

The Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) MIB is an interface between the
RMON agent on the Passport 8000 Series switch and an RMON management
application, such as the Device Manager. It defines objects that are suitable for the
management of any type of network, but some groups are targeted for Ethernet
networks in particular . Enabling RMON on the switch allows the RMON agent to
continuously collect statistics and proactively monitor switch performance.
This data can then be viewed using Device Manager or the CLI.

RMON has three major functions:

• Creating and displaying alarms for user-defined events

• Gathering cumulative statistics for Ethernet interfaces

• Tracking a history of statistics for Ethernet interfaces

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HP OpenView 55

Configuring RMON using the CLI 58

Note: Before using RMON functions, you must globally enable RMON. In addition,

you should specify certain options to control how RMON operates on the switch.

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Configuring RMON using Device Manager

The following sections describe how to configure RMON using Device Manager.
It includes the following topics:

Layer 2 / Layer 3 redundancy clarification

L2 redundancy supports the synchronization of VLAN and QoS software
parameters. L3 redundancy, which is an extension to and includes the L2
redundancy software feature, supports the synchronization of VLAN and QoS
software parameters, static and default route records, ARP entries, and LAN
virtual interfaces. Specifically, L3 redundancy passes table information and layer
3 protocol-specific control packets to the standby CPU.

When using L2/L3 redundancy, the bootconfig file is saved onto both the master
and the standby CPUs and the standby CPU is reset automatically.You must
manually reset the master CPU.

L3 redundancy limitations and considerations

This section describes the limitations and considerations of the L3 redundancy
feature:

• L3 redundancy (HA-CPU) is not compatible with PCAP. Be sure to disable
HA-CPU prior to using PCAP.

• Enabling L3 redundancy disables the IP dynamic routing protocols OSPF,
RIP, and BGP; consequently, the CLI routing protocol commands config ip
ospf, config ip rip, and config ip bgp will no longer be available.

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Understanding RMON history 37

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• L3 redundancy allows redundant ARP and IP static route tables. For
information about creating ARP and IP static routes, refer to Configuring IP
Routing Operations.

• Enabling L3 redundancy disables the brouter port capab ility; you cannot
assign IP addresses to Ethernet ports. To assign an IP address, you must create
a VLAN, add ports to that VLAN, and then assign the IP address to it.

• L3 redundancy does not currently support the following protocols:
— OSPF
—RIP
— VRRP
— DVMRP/PIM/PGM
— IPX RIP/SAP
—WDM
—POS
— Route policies
— IP filters

In “Setting individual system-level switch parameters” (Chapter 4), the
description of the config sys set msg-control command should be:

msg-control <enable|disable>: Enables or disables the system message

control. Enable this command to suppress duplicate error messages on the
console.

Enabling RMON globally

Enable RMON globally before using any RMON function. If you attempt to
enable any functions when the global flag is disabled, Device Manager informs
you that the flag is disabled and prompts for automatic enabling of the flag. See
the appropriate sections about RMON functionality for details on other RMON
parameters that will be automatically created and set to default parameters.

To enable and set RMON options:

The RMONOptions dialog box opens displaying the default values.

From the Device Manager menu bar, choose RMON > Options.