Using the 10/100 or 10/100/1000 Ethernet Management Port

The ExtremeSwitching switches provide a dedicated 10/100 Mbps or 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet management port. This port provides dedicated remote access to the switch using TCP/IP. It supports the following management methods:

Telnet/SSH2 using the CLI interface
SNMP access using Extreme Management Center, Ridgeline or another SNMP manager

The switch uses the Ethernet management port only for host operation, not for switching or routing. The TCP/IP configuration for the management port is done using the same syntax as used for VLAN configuration. The VLAN management comes preconfigured with only the management port as a member. The management port is a member of the virtual router VR-Mgmt.

Note

The ExtremeSwitching 5320 (all models) does not have dedicated management ports. You can use front panel ports for management connectivity for these switches.

On a SummitStack, the master node is accessed using the management port primary IP address for other platforms. The primary IP address is acquired by the backup node when it becomes the master node due to a failover. You can also directly access any node in the stack using its alternate IP address if the node's management port is connected to your network.

To configure the IP address and subnet mask for the VLAN mgmt, use the following command:
configure vlan mgmt ipaddress ip_address /subnet_mask
To configure the default gateway (you must specify VR-Mgmt for the management port and VLAN mgmt), use the following command:
configure iproute add default gateway { metric } {multicast | multicast-only | unicast | unicast-only} {vr vrname}
The following example configuration sets the management port IP address to 192.168.1.50, mask length of 25, and configures the gateway to use 192.168.1.1:
```
configure vlan mgmt ipaddress 192.168.1.50/25
configure iproute add default 192.168.1.1 vr vr-mgmt
```

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