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Monitor: Link Aggregation

10.1 Overview

This section provides information for Link Aggregation in Monitor.

Link aggregation (trunking) is the grouping of physical ports into one logical higher-capacity link. You may want to trunk ports if for example, it is cheaper to use multiple lower-speed links than to under-utilize a high-speed, but more costly, single-port link. However, the more ports you aggregate then the fewer available ports you have. A trunk group is one logical link containing multiple ports.

The Switch supports both static and dynamic link aggregation.

Note: In a properly planned network, it is recommended to implement static link aggregation only. This ensures increased network stability and control over the trunk groups on your Switch.

10.1.1What You Can Do in this Chapter

The Link Aggregation screen (Section 10.2 on page 66) displays link aggregation status.

10.2 Link Aggregation

Use the Link Aggregation screens to view Switch link aggregation status. Click Monitor > Link Aggregation > LAG to access this screen.

Figure 48 Monitor > Link Aggregation > LAG

 

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