Create or modify a Switch Template.
Use this task to create ports in bulk.
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Either under Create Ports in
Bulk, select one or more ports and select or select
(next to Port
Type under Configure Ports
Individually).
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If this template applies to a
5570 or 5520 switch, define the VIM Port Channelization ports; otherwise,
proceed to Step 3.
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Under Configure Ports in
Bulk, choose Select
VIM.
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For a 5570 switch,
select VIM-6YE or VIM-2CE.
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For a 5520 switch,
select VIM-4X, VIM-4XE,
or VIM-4YE.

Note
If different
templates for the same switch SKU are required to be created
with different VIMs, then a classification rule can be created
to assign the same template SKU with different VIM options to
different devices. See
Configure Classification Rules for a Device Template for more information about classification
rules.
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Select one or more of
these VIM ports and continue to Step 3.
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Type a
Name.
- Optional:
Edit the associated
Description.
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Toggle the port ON or OFF.
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In the Port Usage
Settings section, select one of the following port types:
- Access
Port: Ports connected to individual hosts such as
printers, servers, and end-user computers.
- Phone with a data
port: Ports connected to IP phones, and optionally, to
computers cabled to the phones.
- Trunk
port: Ports connected to network forwarding devices,
such as switches and APs that support multiple VLANs on trunk
ports.
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Select Next.
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Select an existing VLAN or
select the add icon to add a new one.
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Select Next.
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For User Authentication:
- User
Authentication: Turn On for
wired devices, such as printers, servers, and end-user computers.
- MAC
Authentication: Turn On for
legacy devices that use MAC addresses as the user name and password to
authenticate clients.
- Authentication Protocol: If you selected
MAC Authentication, choose PAP, CHAP, or MS CHAP
V2 (for users on an Active Directory server) to
determine how the port forwards authentication requests from
users to an external RADIUS or Active Directory server. If you
choose PAP, the port sends an unencrypted password to the RADIUS
server. If you choose CHAP or MS CHAP V2, the port sends the
RADIUS or Active Directory authentication server the result of
an operation it performs on the password, instead of the
password itself. The authentication server performs the same
operation, and then compares the two results to check if they
match.
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Select Next.
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Add RADIUS Servers under RADIUS Settings to use this
form of user authentication.
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For Authentication Method Priority, use the up or down
arrows to determine the authentication method use order.
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For QoS Settings,
toggle On
to create custom settings.
Select the 802.1p
classification system (marked in the L2 frame header in Ethernet frames) or the
DiffServ codepoint marking system (marked in the L3 packet header) on outgoing
packets from the drop-down list. See
Configure Marker Maps.
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Select Next.
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For Transmission Settings, configure the
following:
- Transmission
Type: Select Auto, Half-Duplex, or Full-Duplex. Auto causes the switch to negotiate the
best possible duplex mode possible with the connected device.
Full-Duplex forces the switch to communicate with the connected device
using full-duplex communication. Half-Duplex forces the switch to use
half-duplex communication.
- Transmission Speed: Choose the speed the switch
port uses to communicate with the connected device.
- Debounce Timer: Select the amount of time the
switch does not register another input.
- CDP Receive: Enables the switch to receive and
parse the information within Cisco CDP frames.
- Auto MDIX: Automatically detects the required
cable connection type (straight through or crossover) and configures the
connection appropriately.
- LLDP Transmit: Enables the switch to transmit
LLDPDU frames.
- LLDP Receive: Enables the switch to receive
LLDPDU frames.
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Select Next.
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For STP:
- STP Enabled: Toggle ON to
enable STP for the port.
- Edge
Port: Connects to a user terminal or server, instead of
other switches or shared network segments. A port configured as an Edge
port does not cause a loop upon network topology changes.
- BPDU Protection: Use the drop-down list to change
BPDU protection to guard or filter status.
- Guard - Controls whether a port explicitly
configured as Edge disables itself upon reception of a BPDU. The
port enters the error-disabled state, and is removed from the
active topology.
- Filter - Controls whether a port explicitly
configured as Edge transmits and receive BPDUs. You must select
this option for Fabric Engine switches.
- Disabled - Turns off BPDU Protection.
- Priority: When this port is an STP edge port,
select a port priority for STP from the drop-down list.
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Select Next.
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For Storm Control:
- Broadcast: Select to include traffic that is forwarded to
all destinations simultaneously.
- Unknown
Unicast: Select to include traffic whose destination
address does not appear in the forwarding database.
- Multicast: Select to include traffic whose
destination is a multicast address.
- TCP-SYN: Select to include TCP-SYN flood
traffic.
- Thresholds: Select Byte
Based or Packet
Based.
- Rate Limit
Type: Select Kbps
(kilobytes per second) or Percentage if you selected Byte
Based and PPS
(packets per second) if you selected Packet
Based.
- Rate Limit Value: Enter when the switch should
discard traffic of the selected types.
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For MAC Locking, enable the per port type with the
option to specify Maximum First Arrival Limit and specify
the Link Down Action.
By default, Link Down Action
it is set to clear first arrival MACs, with the option to retain MAC's. We also
have the option to take action when MACs are aged out.
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For ELRP, toggle to ON to enable
ELRP per port.
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For PSE, select an
existing profile or select the plus sign to add a new one.
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Review all the port settings in
the Summary section and select Save when
complete.