Port Manager Overview

The Port Manager feature lets you virtually configure all of your switch ports as if they belonged to one switch, similar to virtual stacking. The switches can be in different physical locations and can be of different model types.

Note

To manage an individual switch port, see Configure an Individual Port

Using Port Manager, you can find all the ports across the network using search criteria (such as those on the same VLAN, site, or category), and then edit the entire group of ports. Some of the actions that you can perform with Port Manager are:

• Filter the Port Manager display, for example, to view all ports on a controlling bridge (including VPEX)
• Assign or delete one or more categories assigned to the selected port or ports (such as VoIP or IoT)
• Assign or delete one or more VLANs (topologies)
• Assign or delete one or more VLAN groups (topology groups)
• Modify the PVID
• Assign a port function (Interswitch, Host, AP, Other) to selected ports
• Create a LAG for ports that are on the same switch

Note

AP ports cannot have VLANs removed if they are required by AP services.

ExtremeCloud lets you apply multiple categories (labels) to help you manage groups of ports logically. Categories can be user-defined to reflect the logical classification used by your organization. For example, you can categorize ports primarily by location and then apply a further level of classification using categories such as WLAN or PoE to identify ports for wireless access points.

When you perform a search, you can combine filter criteria and then sort the results by selecting the column headers.

A port function cannot be deleted, but it can be assigned Other if another function is not appropriate.

VLANs are topologies. VLAN groups are topology groups that can be created and assigned to a group of ports, and more than one VLAN group can be assigned to a port.

A VLAN can be used in more than one VLAN group.

Each VLAN group is treated as one entity. A VLAN group can also contain VLANs that have more than one VLAN ID assigned to it.

Audit logs are created for all configuration changes and can be viewed under Admin > Audit Logs > .