ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch Application Guide

Accessing the GbE2 Interconnect Switch 11
The BBI is organized at a high level as follows:
• Configuration—These menus provide access to the configuration elements for the entire switch.
• System—Configure general switch configuration elements.
• Switch Ports—configure switch ports and related features.
• Port-Based Port Mirroring—Configure mirrored ports and monitoring ports.
• Layer 2—Configure Layer 2 features, including Trunk Groups, VLANs, and Spanning Tree Protocol.
• RMON Menu—Configure Remote Monitoring (RMON) functions.
• Layer 3—Configure all of the IP related information, including IGMP Snooping, OSPF, and Virtual
Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).
• QoS—Configure Quality of Service features.
• Access Control—Configure Access Control Lists, Blocks, and Groups.
• Uplink Failure Detection—Configure a Failover Pair of Links to Monitor and Links to Disable.
• Statistics—These menus provide access to the switch statistics and state information.
• Dashboard—These menus display settings and operating status of a variety of switch features.
Using Simple Network Management Protocol
GbE2 software provides SNMP v1.0 and SNMP v3.0 support for access through any network management
software, such as HP-OpenView.
SNMP v1.0
To access the SNMP agent on the GbE2, the read and write community strings on the SNMP manager should be
configured to match those on the switch. The default read community string on the switch is public and the
default write community string is private.
The read and write community strings on the switch can be changed using the following commands on the CLI.
>> /cfg/sys/ssnmp/rcomm
and
>> /cfg/sys/ssnmp/wcomm
The SNMP manager should be able to reach the management interface or any one of the IP interfaces on the
switch.
For the SNMP manager to receive the traps sent out by the SNMP agent on the switch, the trap host on the switch
should be configured with the following command:
/cfg/sys/ssnmp/snmpv3/taddr
For more details, see “Configuring SNMP Trap Hosts”.
SNMP v3.0
SNMPv3 is an enhanced version of the Simple Network Management Protocol, approved by the Internet
Engineering Steering Group in March, 2002. SNMP v3.0 contains additional security and authentication
features that provide data origin authentication, data integrity checks, timeliness indicators and encryption to
protect against threats such as masquerade, modification of information, message stream modification and
disclosure.
SNMP v3 ensures that the client can use SNMP v3 to query the MIBs, mainly for security.
To access the SNMP v3.0 menu, enter the following command in the CLI:
>> # /cfg/sys/ssnmp/snmpv3
For more information on SNMP MIBs and the commands used to configure SNMP on the switch, see the HP
ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch Command Reference Guide.