Reference Guide
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Before You Start
By following the instructions in the Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator Getting Started Guide
that is shipped with the product, you install the Aggregator in a Dell PowerEdge M1000e
Enclosure.
The Aggregator installs with zero-touch configuration. After you power it on, an Aggregator
boots up with default settings and auto-configures with software features enabled. This
chapter describes the default settings and software features that are automatically configured
at startup. Use the tasks described in the other chapters to reconfigure the Aggregator for
customized network operation.
Default Settings
The I/O Aggregator provides zero-touch configuration with the following default
configuration settings:
• Default user name (root)
• Password (calvin)
• VLAN (vlan1) and IP address for in-band management (DHCP-assigned)
• IP address for out-of-band (OOB) management (DHCP-assigned)
• Read-only SNMP community name (public)
• Broadcast storm control (enabled)
• Unregistered IGMP multicast packet flooding (enabled)
• IGMP snooping in all VLANs except the default VLAN (enabled)
• VLAN configuration (all ports belong to all VLANs)
You can change any of these default settings using the CLI. Refer to the appropriate chapter
for details
.
Note: You can also change many of the default settings using the chassis management
controller (CMC) interface. In this document, configuration tasks that you can perform from
the CMC interface are shown with a CMC icon:
For information about how to access the CMC to configure an Aggregator, refer to the Dell
PowerEdge M1000e Enclosure Hardware Owner's Manual or Dell Chassis Management
Controller (CMC) User’s Guide on the Dell Support website at http://support.dell.com/
support/edocs/systems/pem/en/index.htm.