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RUCKUS FastIron Management Configuration Guide, 09.0.10 53-1005723-26

  • 1 Vistance Legal Statements
  • Preface RUCKUS
    • 3 Contact Information, Resources, and Conventions
      • 3.1 Contacting RUCKUS Customer Services and Support
      • 3.2 Document Feedback
      • 3.3 RUCKUS Product Documentation Resources
      • 3.4 Online Training Resources
      • 3.5 Document Conventions
      • 3.6 Command Syntax Conventions
  • 4 About This Document
    • 4.1 New in This Document
    • 4.2 Supported Hardware
  • Configuration Fundamentals
    • 5 Configuration Fundamentals
      • 5.1 Management port overview
        • 5.1.1 Displaying Information About Management Ports
      • 5.2 Consideration for Accessing Factory Default Device
      • 5.3 Web Management Interface
      • 5.4 Automation with Ansible
      • 5.5 Management VRFs
        • 5.5.1 Source interface and management VRF compatibility
        • 5.5.2 Management Applications Supporting Management VRFs
        • 5.5.3 Configuring a Global Management VRF
        • 5.5.4 Configuring the OOB management port to be a member of a management VRF
        • 5.5.5 Displaying management VRF information
      • 5.6 Additional OOB management configuration options
        • 5.6.1 Configuring an IPv6 Default Gateway to Support OOB Management
        • 5.6.2 Controlling Traffic on Management Ports in a VLAN or VRF
        • 5.6.3 Configuring the OOB management port to be a member of a management VLAN
      • 5.7 System clock
        • 5.7.1 Daylight saving time
        • 5.7.2 Time zones
        • 5.7.3 Setting the clock parameters for the device
      • 5.8 Basic System Parameter Configuration
        • 5.8.1 Configuring Basic System Parameters
        • 5.8.2 Examples of Syslog messages for CLI access
        • 5.8.3 Cancelling an outbound Telnet session
      • 5.9 Displaying and modifying system parameter default settings
        • 5.9.1 System default settings configuration considerations
        • 5.9.2 Modifying system parameter default values
        • 5.9.3 Displaying system parameter default values
      • 5.10 Password and Device Recovery
      • 5.11 Forwarding Profiles
        • 5.11.1 Configuration Considerations for Forwarding Profiles
        • 5.11.2 Configuring a Forwarding Profile
      • 5.12 Basic port parameter configuration
        • 5.12.1 About Port Regions
        • 5.12.2 Specifying a Port Address
        • 5.12.3 Static MAC entry configuration
        • 5.12.4 Multi-port static MAC address
          • 5.12.4.1 Multi-port static MAC address configuration notes
        • 5.12.5 Configuring Basic Port Parameters
        • 5.12.6 Displaying the Port Name for an Interface
        • 5.12.7 Port speed and duplex mode modification
          • 5.12.7.1 Port Speed and Duplex Mode Configuration
        • 5.12.8 Auto-negotiation
          • 5.12.8.1 Enabling auto-negotiation maximum port speed advertisement
            • 5.12.8.1.1 Maximum port speed advertisement application notes
            • 5.12.8.1.2 Configuring maximum port speed advertisement
        • 5.12.9 Force mode configuration
          • 5.12.9.1 Force mode configuration syntax
        • 5.12.10 MDI and MDIX configuration
          • 5.12.10.1 MDI and MDIX configuration notes
          • 5.12.10.2 MDI and MDIX configuration syntax
        • 5.12.11 Disabling or re-enabling a port
        • 5.12.12 Enabling and disabling support for 100BaseFX
          • 5.12.12.1 Enabling and disabling 100BaseFX on Chassis-based and stackable devices
        • 5.12.13 Changing the Gbps fiber negotiation mode
        • 5.12.14 Flow Control Configuration
          • 5.12.14.1 Flow control configuration notes
          • 5.12.14.2 Configuring Flow Control
          • 5.12.14.3 Displaying flow-control status
        • 5.12.15 Symmetrical Flow Control
          • 5.12.15.1 Configuration Notes and Feature Limitations for Symmetrical Flow Control
          • 5.12.15.2 Configuring Symmetrical Flow Control
          • 5.12.15.3 Displaying Symmetrical Flow Control Status
        • 5.12.17 Port priority (QoS) modification
        • 5.12.18 Dynamic configuration of Voice over IP (VoIP) phones
          • 5.12.18.1 VoIP configuration notes
          • 5.12.18.2 Enabling dynamic configuration of a Voice over IP (VoIP) phone
          • 5.12.18.3 Viewing voice VLAN configurations
        • 5.12.19 Port flap dampening configuration
          • 5.12.19.1 Port flap dampening configuration notes
          • 5.12.19.2 Configuring port flap dampening on an interface
          • 5.12.19.3 Configuring port flap dampening on a trunk
          • 5.12.19.4 Re-enabling a port disabled by port flap dampening
          • 5.12.19.5 Displaying ports configured with port flap dampening
          • 5.12.19.6 Syslog messages for port flap dampening
        • 5.12.20 Configuring link dampening and alarms on ICX 7150 devices
        • 5.12.21 Port Loop Detection
          • 5.12.21.1 Types of loop detection
          • 5.12.21.2 Recovering Disabled Ports
          • 5.12.21.3 Port loopback detection configuration notes
          • 5.12.21.4 Configuring Port Loopback Detection
          • 5.12.21.5 Displaying Loop Detection Information
          • 5.12.21.6 Displaying loop detection resource information
          • 5.12.21.7 Displaying loop detection configuration status on an interface
          • 5.12.21.8 Syslog message due to disabled port in loop detection
          • 5.12.21.9 Shutdown prevention for loop-detection on an interface
          • 5.12.21.10 Periodic log message generation for shutdown prevention
          • 5.12.21.11 Syslog for port shutdown prevention
      • 5.13 Replacing a primary IPv4 address automatically
      • 5.14 Ethernet loopback
        • 5.14.1 Ethernet loopback operational modes
        • 5.14.2 Ethernet loopback configuration considerations
        • 5.14.3 Configuring Ethernet loopback in VLAN-unaware mode
        • 5.14.4 Configuring Ethernet loopback in VLAN-aware mode
        • 5.14.5 Ethernet loopback syslog messages
      • 5.15 Disabling the automatic learning of MAC addresses
        • 5.15.1 MAC address learning configuration notes and feature limitations
      • 5.16 Changing the MAC age time and disabling MAC address learning
        • 5.16.1 Disabling the automatic learning of MAC addresses
          • 5.16.1.1 MAC address learning configuration notes and feature limitations
        • 5.16.2 Displaying the MAC address table
      • 5.17 Clearing MAC address entries
      • 5.18 Defining MAC address filters
      • 5.19 Monitoring MAC address movement
        • 5.19.1 Configuring the MAC address movement threshold rate
        • 5.19.2 Viewing the MAC address movement threshold rate configuration
        • 5.19.3 Configuring an interval for collecting MAC address move notifications
        • 5.19.4 Viewing MAC address movement statistics for the interval history
      • 5.20 Overview of Breakout Ports
        • 5.20.1 Configuring Breakout Ports and Subports
        • 5.20.2 Displaying Information for Breakout Ports
        • 5.20.3 Setting Module 2 to Uplink-100-Gbps Mode
        • 5.20.4 Removing Breakout Configuration
        • 5.20.5 1G Breakout Ports
      • 5.21 Configuring the CLI Banner
      • 5.23 CLI command history
        • 5.23.1 CLI command history persistence limitations
        • 5.23.2 Displaying and clearing command log history
      • 5.25 Cut-through switching
      • 5.26 Jumbo frame support
      • 5.27 Multi-Process Memory Leak Detection
      • 5.28 Wake-on-LAN support across VLANs
      • 5.30 Secure Wipe
        • 5.30.1 Secure Wipe Configuration Notes and Considerations
        • 5.30.2 Starting Secure Wipe
    • 6 Configuration File Management
      • 6.1 Loading and Saving Configuration Files
        • 6.1.1 Logging Changes to the Startup-config File
        • 6.1.2 Copying a Configuration File To or From a TFTP Server
        • 6.1.3 Maximum File Sizes for Startup-config File and Running-config File
        • 6.1.4 Dynamic Configuration Loading
          • 6.1.4.1 Preparing the Configuration File
          • 6.1.4.2 Loading the Configuration Information into the Running-config
      • 6.2 Loading and Saving Configuration Files with IPv6
        • 6.2.1 Copying a File to an IPv6 TFTP Server
        • 6.2.2 Copying a File From an IPv6 TFTP Server
        • 6.2.3 Copying a Primary or Secondary Boot Image from Flash Memory to an IPv6 TFTP Server
        • 6.2.4 Copying the Running or Startup Configuration to an IPv6 TFTP Server
        • 6.2.5 IPv6 TFTP Server File Upload
        • 6.2.6 Using SNMP to Save and Load Configuration Information
        • 6.2.7 Erasing Image and Configuration Files
      • 6.3 Configuration Archive and Replace
        • 6.3.1 Configuration Archives
        • 6.3.2 Creating a Configuration Archive
        • 6.3.3 Performing a Reload Using a Configuration Archive
        • 6.3.4 Managing Configuration Archive Files
        • 6.3.5 Configuration Archive Auto-Revert
        • 6.3.6 Verifying Configuration Archives
        • 6.3.7 Enabling Configuration Archive Auto-Revert
        • 6.3.8 Enabling Configuration Archive Auto-Revert Options
  • 7 Network Time Protocol Version 4 (NTPv4)
    • 7.1 Network Time Protocol Version 4 Overview
      • 7.1.1 Limitations
      • 7.1.2 Network Time Protocol leap second
        • 7.1.2.1 How Ruckus supports leap second handling for NTP
      • 7.1.3 NTP server
        • 7.1.3.1 System as an Authoritative NTP Server
      • 7.1.4 NTP Client
      • 7.1.5 NTP peer
      • 7.1.6 NTP broadcast server
      • 7.1.7 NTP broadcast client
      • 7.1.8 NTP associations
        • 7.1.8.1 NTP poll-based associations
        • 7.1.8.2 NTP broadcast-based associations
      • 7.1.9 Synchronizing time
      • 7.1.10 Authentication
      • 7.1.11 NTP and a Configured VLAN
    • 7.2 Configuring NTP
      • 7.2.1 Enabling NTP
      • 7.2.2 Disabling NTP
      • 7.2.3 NTP Server Start Delay
      • 7.2.4 Enabling NTP Authentication
      • 7.2.5 Defining an Authentication Key
      • 7.2.6 Specifying a Source Interface
      • 7.2.7 Enabling or Disabling the VLAN Containment for NTP
      • 7.2.8 Configuring the NTP Client
      • 7.2.9 Configuring the Master
      • 7.2.10 Configuring the NTP Peer
      • 7.2.11 Configuring NTP on an Interface
      • 7.2.12 Configuring the Broadcast Client
      • 7.2.13 Configuring the Broadcast Destination
      • 7.2.14 Displaying NTP Status
      • 7.2.15 Displaying NTP Association Information
      • 7.2.16 Displaying NTP Association Details
      • 7.2.17 NTP Client Mode Configuration Example
      • 7.2.18 NTP Client Mode Configuration Example
      • 7.2.19 NTP Strict Authentication Configuration Example
      • 7.2.20 NTP Loose Authentication Configuration Example
      • 7.2.21 NTP Interface Context for the Broadcast Server or Client Mode Example
      • 7.2.22 NTP Broadcast Client Configuration Example
      • 7.2.23 NTP over Management VRF
        • 7.2.23.1 NTP over Management VRF Limitations
        • 7.2.23.2 Configuring NTP over Management VRF on an NTP Server
        • 7.2.23.3 Configuring NTP over Management VRF on an NTP Client
        • 7.2.23.4 Configuration Example for NTP over Management VRF Using IPv6
  • 8 Precision Time Protocol
    • 8.1 Precision Time Protocol Overview
    • 8.2 Transparent Clock
    • 8.3 Enabling Transparent Clock Mode for PTP
      • 8.3.1 Displaying Transparent Clock Information for PTP
    • 8.4 Disabling Transparent Clock Mode for PTP
  • Cisco Discovery Protocl (CDP)
    • 9 Cisco Discovery Protocol
      • 9.1 Cisco Discovery Protocol overview
      • 9.2 Enabling CDP packet interception
      • 9.3 Displaying CDP packet information
      • 9.4 Clearing CDP statistics and neighbor information
  • Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP)
    • 10 Foundry Discovery Protocol
      • 10.1 Foundry Discovery Protocol overview
      • 10.2 Enabling FDP
      • 10.3 Verifying FDP
      • 10.4 Clearing FDP statistics and neighbor information
  • 11 LLDP and LLDP-MED
    • 11.1 LLDP terms used in this chapter
    • 11.2 LLDP overview
      • 11.2.1 Benefits of LLDP
    • 11.3 LLDP-MED overview
      • 11.3.1 Benefits of LLDP-MED
      • 11.3.2 LLDP-MED class
    • 11.4 General LLDP operating principles
      • 11.4.1 LLDP operating modes
        • 11.4.1.1 LLDP receive mode
      • 11.4.2 LLDP packets
      • 11.4.3 TLV support
        • 11.4.3.1 LLDP TLVs
        • 11.4.3.2 LLDP-MED TLVs
        • 11.4.3.3 Mandatory TLVs
    • 11.5 MIB support
    • 11.6 Syslog Messages
    • 11.7 LLDP Configuration
      • 11.7.1 LLDP Configuration Notes and Considerations
      • 11.7.2 Managing LLDP on a Global Basis
      • 11.7.3 Enabling Support for Tagged LLDP packets
      • 11.7.4 Disabling LLDP receive and transmit mode
      • 11.7.5 Re-enabling LLDP receive and transmit mode
      • 11.7.6 Enabling LLDP receive only mode
      • 11.7.7 Enabling transmit only mode
      • 11.7.8 LLDP port's operating mode change
      • 11.7.9 Configuring the LLDP parameters (Optional)
      • 11.7.10 LLDP TLVs advertised by the Brocade device
        • 11.7.10.1 Management address
        • 11.7.10.2 Advertising IP management address
        • 11.7.10.3 Port parameters
          • 11.7.10.3.1 Disabling advertisement of the port description
        • 11.7.10.4 System capabilities
          • 11.7.10.4.1 Disabling the advertise system capabilities
        • 11.7.10.5 System description
          • 11.7.10.5.1 Advertising the system description
        • 11.7.10.6 General system information for LLDP
        • 11.7.10.7 802.1 capabilities
        • 11.7.10.8 802.3 capabilities
    • 11.8 LLDP-MED configuration
      • 11.8.1 Enabling LLDP-MED
      • 11.8.2 Enabling SNMP notifications and Syslog messages for LLDP-MED topology changes
      • 11.8.3 Changing the fast start repeat count
      • 11.8.4 Defining a location id
        • 11.8.4.1 Coordinate-based location
        • 11.8.4.2 Configuring civic address location
        • 11.8.4.3 Configuring emergency call service
      • 11.8.5 Defining an LLDP-MED network policy
    • 11.9 LLDP-MED attributes advertised by the Ruckus device
      • 11.9.1 LLDP-MED capabilities
      • 11.9.2 Extended power-via-MDI information
      • 11.9.3 Displaying LLDP statistics and configuration settings
      • 11.9.4 LLDP configuration summary
      • 11.9.5 Displaying LLDP statistics
      • 11.9.6 Displaying LLDP neighbors
      • 11.9.7 Displaying LLDP neighbors detail
      • 11.9.8 Displaying LLDP configuration details
    • 11.10 LLDP port ID subtype configuration for E-911
      • 11.10.1 Configuring the LLDP port ID subtype to advertise
    • 11.11 Resetting LLDP statistics
    • 11.12 Clearing cached LLDP neighbor information
  • 12 Power over Ethernet
    • 12.1 Power over Ethernet Overview
      • 12.1.1 Power over Ethernet Terms
      • 12.1.2 IEEE 802.3bt Features
      • 12.1.3 Methods for Delivering Power over Ethernet
        • 12.1.3.1 PoE Endspan Method
        • 12.1.3.2 PoE Midspan Method
      • 12.1.4 Perpetual PoE and Fast Boot PoE
        • 12.1.4.1 Configuring Perpetual PoE
      • 12.1.5 PoE Refactoring
      • 12.1.6 PoE Autodiscovery
      • 12.1.7 Power Class
      • 12.1.8 Power over Ethernet Cabling Requirements
      • 12.1.9 Auto Firmware Download
      • 12.1.10 PoE and CPU Utilization
      • 12.1.11 PoE Support Matrix
    • 12.2 Auto-Enabling of PoE
      • 12.2.1 Enabling Power over Ethernet
      • 12.2.2 Disabling Power over Ethernet
    • 12.3 Support for PoE Legacy Power-Consuming Devices
    • 12.4 Enabling the Detection of PoE Power Requirements Advertised Through CDP
      • 12.4.1 Command Syntax for PoE Power Requirements
    • 12.5 Setting the Maximum Power Level for a PoE Power-Consuming Device
      • 12.5.1 Considerations for Setting Power Levels
      • 12.5.2 Configuring Power Levels
    • 12.6 Setting the Power Class for a PoE Power-Consuming Device
      • 12.6.1 Setting the Power Class
    • 12.7 Setting the Inline Power Priority for a PoE Port
    • 12.8 Resetting PoE Parameters
    • 12.9 Inline Power on PoE LAG Ports
      • 12.9.1 Configuring Inline Power on PoE Ports in a LAG
    • 12.10 Fanless Mode Support on the ICX 7150
    • 12.11 Displaying Power over Ethernet Information
      • 12.11.1 Displaying PoE Operational Status
      • 12.11.2 Displaying Detailed Information About PoE Power Supplies
    • 12.12 Troubleshooting
  • SNMP
    • 13 SNMP
      • 13.1 SNMP Overview
      • 13.2 Disabling SNMP
      • 13.3 SNMP Community Strings
        • 13.3.1 Encryption of SNMP Community Strings
        • 13.3.2 Adding an SNMP Community String
        • 13.3.3 Displaying the SNMP Community Strings
      • 13.4 Suppress SNMP Authentication Failure Timer
      • 13.5 User-based Security Model
        • 13.5.1 Configuring Your NMS
        • 13.5.2 Configuring SNMPv3 on RUCKUS Devices
      • 13.6 SNMP Parameter Configuration
        • 13.6.1 SNMP Trap Receiver
        • 13.6.2 Single Trap Source
        • 13.6.3 SNMP Trap Holddown Time
        • 13.6.4 Configuring SNMP Parameters
        • 13.6.5 Disabling SNMP Traps
        • 13.6.6 SNMP ifIndex
      • 13.8 SNMP Version 3 Traps
        • 13.8.1 Configuring SNMP Version 3 Trap Notifications
        • 13.8.2 Trap MIB changes
          • 13.8.2.1 Backward compatibility with SMIv1 trap format
        • 13.8.3 SNMP MAC-notification trap support
          • 13.8.3.1 Requirements and limitations for MAC-notification trap support
          • 13.8.3.2 Configuring SNMP traps for MAC-notification
          • 13.8.3.3 MAC-notification events
        • 13.8.4 Specifying IPv6 SNMP Parameters
        • 13.8.5 Viewing IPv6 SNMP Server Addresses
      • 13.9 Displaying SNMP Information
      • 13.10 Interpreting Varbinds in Report Packets
      • 13.11 SNMPv3 Configuration Examples
        • 13.11.1 SNMP Group, SNMP User, and SNMP Trap Receiver Configuration
    • 14 Remote Access to the Switch
      • 14.1 Remote Access Overview
      • 14.2 Configuring Remote Access Using Telnet
      • 14.3 Remote Access Using SSH
        • 14.3.1 Configuring SSH
      • 14.4 Remote Access Using SNMP
        • 14.4.1 Configuring Remote Access for SNMP
      • 14.5 Remote Web Management Access
        • 14.5.1 Configuring Web Access
      • 14.6 Remote Access Using RESTCONF
        • 14.9 Restricting Remote Access Using IP Addresses or MAC Addresses
        • 14.10 Restricting Remote Access to the Device to Specific VLAN IDs
          • 14.10.1 Using a Specific VLAN to Restrict Remote Access
    • SmartZone ICX-Management
      • 15 Managing ICX Switches from SmartZone
        • 15.1 Supported ICX Models
        • 15.2 Overview of ICX Switch Management
        • 15.3 ICX Switch Behavior with SmartZone
        • 15.4 Enabling an ICX Device to Be Managed by SmartZone
        • 15.5 Configuring the ICX Source Address to Be Used by SmartZone
        • 15.6 Configuring a Custom Port Number for Connection to SmartZone
        • 15.7 Setting Up Switch Registrar Discovery
        • 15.8 Preparing Stacking Devices to Connect to SmartZone
        • 15.9 Configuring DHCP to Provide SmartZone IP Addresses to an ICX Switch
        • 15.10 Manually Configuring the SmartZone IP Address on an ICX Switch
        • 15.11 Disabling SSH Access Maintaining the SZ Reverse SSH Session
        • 15.12 Displaying the SmartZone Connection Status
        • 15.13 Disconnecting the ICX Switch from SmartZone
        • 15.14 Disabling SmartZone Management on the ICX Switch
    • 16 Managing ICX Switches from RUCKUS One
      • 16.1 ICX-Management in RUCKUS One
      • 16.2 Considerations for Managing ICX Switches from RUCKUS One
      • 16.3 Pre-requisites for RUCKUS One Management
      • 16.4 The Static IP Configuration Wizard
      • 16.5 Disconnecting from RUCKUS One
      • 16.6 Checking the RUCKUS One Connection Status
    • 17 ICX-Management Troubleshooting
      • 17.1 Troubleshooting ICX-to-SmartZone or ICX-to-RUCKUS One Connectivity

    Configuration File Management

    In this section:

    1. Loading and Saving Configuration Files
    2. Loading and Saving Configuration Files with IPv6
    3. Configuration Archive and Replace

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