Chapter 4 The Web Configurator

The following table describes the links in the navigation panel.

Table 5 Navigation Panel Links

LINK

DESCRIPTION

Basic Settings

 

 

 

System Info

This link takes you to a screen that displays general system and hardware

 

monitoring information.

 

 

General Setup

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure general identification

 

information about the Switch.

 

 

Switch Setup

This link takes you to a screen where you can set up global Switch parameters

 

such as VLAN type, MAC address learning, GARP and priority queues.

 

 

IP Setup

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure the IP address, subnet

 

mask (necessary for Switch management) and DNS (domain name server) and set

 

up to 64 IP routing domains.

 

 

Port Setup

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure settings for individual

 

Switch ports.

 

 

Advanced Application

 

 

VLAN

This link takes you to screens where you can configure port-based or 802.1Q

 

VLAN (depending on what you configured in the Switch Setup menu). You can also

 

configure a subnet based VLAN in these screens.

 

 

Static MAC

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure static MAC addresses for a

Forwarding

port. These static MAC addresses do not age out.

 

 

Filtering

This link takes you to a screen to set up filtering rules.

 

 

Spanning Tree

This link takes you to screens where you can configure the RSTP/MRSTP/MSTP to

Protocol

prevent network loops.

 

 

Bandwidth

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure bandwidth limits on the

Control

Switch.

 

 

Broadcast Storm

This link takes you to a screen to set up broadcast filters.

Control

 

 

 

Mirroring

This link takes you to screens where you can copy traffic from one port or ports to

 

another port in order that you can examine the traffic from the first port without

 

interference.

 

 

Link Aggregation

This link takes you to a screen where you can logically aggregate physical links to

 

form one logical, higher-bandwidth link.

 

 

Port

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure IEEE 802.1x port

Authentication

authentication as well as MAC authentication for clients communicating via the

 

Switch.

 

 

Port Security

This link takes you to a screen where you can activate MAC address learning and

 

set the maximum number of MAC addresses to learn on a port.

 

 

Classifier

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure the Switch to group

 

packets based on the specified criteria.

 

 

Policy Rule

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure the Switch to perform

 

special treatment on the grouped packets.

 

 

Queuing Method

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure queuing with associated

 

queue weights for each port.

 

 

Multicast

This link takes you to screens where you can configure various multicast features,

 

IGMP snooping and create multicast VLANs.

 

 

Auth and Acct

This link takes you to a screen where you can configure authentication and

 

accounting services via external servers. The external servers can be either

 

RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) or TACACS+ (Terminal

 

Access Controller Access-Control System Plus).

 

 

 

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