Network Out-of-Band Management (OOBM)

Concepts

OOBM and Switch Applications

The table below shows the switch applications that are supported on the OOBM interface as well as on the data interfaces. In this list, some applications are client-only, some are server-only, and some are both.

Application

Inbound OOBM

OutboundOOBM

Inbound Data

Outbound Data

 

(server)

(client)

Plane (server)

Plane (client)

 

 

 

 

 

Telnet

yes

yes

yes

yes

 

 

 

 

 

SSH

yes

n/a

yes

n/a

 

 

 

 

 

SNMP

yes

yes*

yes

yes

 

 

 

 

 

TFTP

yes

yes

yes

yes

 

 

 

 

 

HTTP

yes

n/a

yes

n/a

 

 

 

 

 

SNTP

n/a

yes

n/a

yes

 

 

 

 

 

TIMEP

n/a

yes

n/a

yes

 

 

 

 

 

RADIUS

n/a

yes

n/a

yes

 

 

 

 

 

TACACS

n/a

yes

n/a

yes

 

 

 

 

 

DNS**

n/a

yes

n/a

yes

 

 

 

 

 

Syslog

n/a

yes

n/a

yes

 

 

 

 

 

Ping

yes***

yes

yes***

yes

 

 

 

 

 

Traceroute

yes***

yes

yes***

yes

 

 

 

 

 

n/a = not applicable

* = SNMP client refers to SNMP traps as they originate from the switch.

** = DNS has a limit of two servers — primary and secondary. Either can be configured to use the OOBM interface.

*** = Ping and Traceroute do not have explicit servers. Ping and Traceroute responses are sent by the host stack.

For applications that have servers, oobm/data/both options have been added to listen mode. There is now a listen keyword in the CLI commands to allow selection of those options. Default value is both for all servers. See the Application Server Commands (page G-13)in the “Tasks” section below for details of the new command syntax.

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