HP Network Direr Software Products manual Creating a new Voice Vlan for 3Com NBX systems

568CHAPTER 13: VLAN MANAGEMENT

Creating a new Voice VLAN for 3Com NBX systems

You have added an NBX system to your network and wish to separate the voice traffic from other traffic by placing it on its own VLAN.

The following changes will cause a temporary outage of your NBX system while the network is reconfigured.

1Ensure that the NBX call processor and phones have been discovered in 3Com Network Director and are present in the current map.

2Launch the Find dialog box by selecting the Edit > Find menu option.

3Select NBX telephony components in the Find: drop-down menu if it is not already selected.

4Select Name in the Search by: drop-down menu if it is not already selected.

5Clear the Name: field.

6Click Find – this will search for all NBX telephony components in your network.

7When the search has completed, select an item from within the results list and press Ctrl+A to select all items in the list.

8Close the Find dialog box.

9Select the Device > VLAN > Create a VLAN menu option to launch the Create VLAN wizard.

10In the VLAN Name and ID step enter a suitable name and ID for the VLAN.

11Click Next to move through the wizard steps. If there are any additional switches and ports that will need configured in order to propagate the VLAN across your network then these will be listed in the Additional Ports step.

12If the Manual Configuration Required step is displayed then select each switch in turn, use the Launch button to launch an appropriate management interface to the device and manually configure the listed ports to be members of the VLAN you are creating, tagged or untagged as indicated.

13In the IP Interfaces step select the Yes radio button to add a route to the VLAN, and click Add IP Interface to launch the Add IP Interface dialog box.