EX3500 Management Policies

The EX3500 series switch is a Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 switch with either 24 or 48 10/100/1000-BASE-T ports, and four Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver slots for fiber connectivity. Each 10/100/1000 Mbps port supports both the IEEE 802.3af and IEEE 802.3at-2009 PoE standards. Each EX3500 series switch includes an SNMP-based management agent, which provides both in-band and out-of-band access for management. An EX3500 series switch utilizes an embedded HTTP Web agent and command line interface (CLI) somewhat different from the WiNG operating system, while still enabling the EX3500 series switch to provide WiNG controllers PoE and port management resources.

Going forward NX9600, NX9500, NX7500, NX5500 WiNG managed services platforms and WiNG VMs can discover, adopt and partially manage EX3500 series Ethernet switches, as DHCP option 193 has been added to support external device adoption. DHCP option 193 is a simplified form of DHCP options 191 and 192 used by WiNG devices currently. DHCP option 193 supports pool1, hello-interval and adjacency-hold-time parameters.

Note

Note

WiNG can partially manage an EX3500 without using DHCP option 193. In this case the EX3500 must be directly configured to specify the IPv4 addresses of potential WiNG adopters, using the EX3500 controller host ip address CLI command.

WiNG service platforms leave the proprietary operating system running the EX3500 switches unmodified, and partially manage them utilizing standardized WiNG interfaces. WiNG service platforms use a translation layer to communicate with EX3500 series switches.

To set EX3500 management settings for user EX3500 user group creation, authentication, password management and SNMP:

  1. Go to Configuration > Management > EX3500 Management Policy.

    The screen lists those EX3500 management policies created thus far. Select Add to create a new EX3500 management policy, Edit to modify the attributes of a policy or Delete to remove an obsolete list from those available. Existing lists can be copied or renamed as needed.