Reference Guide

Important Points to Remember
● Deleting a management route removes the route from both the EIS routing table and the default routing table.
● If the management port is down or route lookup fails in the management EIS routing table, the outgoing interface is selected
based on route lookup from the default routing table.
● If a route in the EIS table conflicts with a front-end port route, the front-end port route has precedence.
● Due to protocol, ARP packets received through the management port create two ARP entries (one for the lookup in the EIS
table and one for the default routing table).
Configuring EIS
EIS is compatible with the following protocols: DNS, FTP, NTP, RADIUS, sFlow, SNMP, SSH, Syslog, TACACS, Telnet, and
TFTP.
To enable and configure EIS, use the following commands:
1. Enter EIS mode.
CONFIGURATION mode
management egress-interface-selection
2. Configure which applications uses EIS.
EIS mode
application {all | application-type}
NOTE:
If you configure SNMP as the management application for EIS and you add a default management route, when
you perform an SNMP walk and check the debugging logs for the source and destination IPs, the SNMP agent uses the
destination address of incoming SNMP packets as the source address for outgoing SNMP responses for security.
Management Interfaces
The Z9500 supports the Management Ethernet interface as well as the standard interface on any port. You can use either
method to connect to the system.
Configuring a Dedicated Management Interface
The dedicated Management interface provides management access to the system.
You can configure this interface using the CLI, but the configuration options on this interface are limited. You cannot configure
Gateway addresses and IP addresses if it appears in the main routing table of Dell Networking OS. In addition, proxy ARP is not
supported on this interface.
To configure a management interface, use the following commands.
●
Enter the slot and the port (0) to configure a Management interface.
CONFIGURATION mode
interface managementethernet interface
The slot range is 0.
● Configure an IP address and mask on a Management interface.
INTERFACE mode
ip address ip-address mask
○ ip-address mask: enter an address in dotted-decimal format (A.B.C.D). The mask must be in /prefix format (/x).
You can configure two global IPv6 addresses on the Z9500 in EXEC Privilege mode. To view the addresses, use the show
interface managementethernet command, as shown in the following example. If you try to configure a third IPv6
address, an error message displays. If you enable auto-configuration, all IPv6 addresses on that management interface are auto-
configured. The first IPv6 address that you configure on the management interface is the primary address. If deleted, you must
re-add it; the secondary address is not promoted.
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