PLANET Web Switch Family Wgsw800.GIF (6460 bytes)

Web / SNMP Intelligent Products

WGSW-2402

24-Port Fast Ethernet Routing Switch with GbE Uplink


Web Management

This chapter describes how to manage the Switch through the at-hand browser like Internet Browser, IE5.0 or Netscape Communicator 4.x or above. Please check the JAVA applet is enabled in your browser’s option or preference.

5.1 Login in to the Switch

Start up the Web Browser and in the address field, key in the IP address of the Switch as described in the Quick Installation Guide or Section 4.6.1. Your browser will start up JAVA applet and shows the screen as below:

Figure 5-1 Login Screen

Key in the User Name and password setup described in section 4.3.1 or use the default one: admin and 123456. You may also login as “guest” without password (default) in browse mode.

The browser will show as below and with the following section:

Note: In default, all the switch port is in the same VLAN, i.e. VLAN 1, you can direct going to the Web screen by key in the IP address of the VLAN1. However, if you already setup another VLANs, please check and use the coordinated VLAN IP address to go into the Web screen.

5.2 General Menu

Figure 5-2 General Menu bar

The General Menu contains the basic management of the Switch and they are:

General

The general information about the Switch like switch name, system contact and its location.

User

The login name of the Switch and password modification

Network

The default IP address of the Switch and the gateway, subnet mask setup

SNMP

The basic information about SNMP interface

Bridging

The bridging parameters setup

Logout

Logout the system

Help

Help information

Advanced

Advanced Tab described in section 5.3.

5.2.1 General Information Tab

As soon as login to the Switch, the General tab will show as below:

The system information of the Switch, as like its hardware/software and firmware version and the physical address.

The following is available for modify:

 

5.2.2 User Tab

This tab helps to modify the login password of the Switch.

Select the User Name and key in the old/new password and verify the new password. Click on “Apply” to make the change take effect.

Click on “Guest Permission” the following screen appeared:

In default, the Switch will display the same Tab options for both user “admin” and “guest”. The only difference is user “guest” can not make any change to the configuration. With this option, the administrator can restrict the Web option for the user “guest”

For example, click on “Bridging” select-button and Apply, guest will never find the tab “Bridging” from the Web browser in next time login.

 

5.2.3 Network Tab

Click on the Network tab, the information field will displayed as following:

The Network tab shows the IP address of the Switch (VLAN 1, the Default VLAN), subnet Mask and its default gateway.

To change the Switch’s IP address (VLAN 1 IP address), direct modify it and click on “Apply” to make the change take effect.

The screen as below appeared to confirm the change:

Click on “Yes” to confirm the change and the Switch will reboot to make the change take effect. Please wait for the Switch boot up and click on “Refresh” or “Reload” to login in to the Switch or retype the new IP address of the Switch.

 

5.2.4 Port Tab

Click on Port Tab, the following screen appeared:

The information field shows the current port status.

 

5.2.4.1 Port Status

To click on “Change” button, you can setup the port speed and flow control as the following screen.

To click on the section-button “All port in the same setting” will force all the ports to run follow the setting.

Speed menu will help to have the available speed/mode of the port

For 10/100Base-TX port: Auto, 100Mbps Full-duplex, 100Mbps Half-duplex, 10Mbps Full-duplex & 10Mbps Half-duplex. Default: Auto

Flow-Control will help to setup the flow-control of the port. Default: On

Click on “Apply” to make the port(s) take effect. And “Close” to close the Applet Window and make the modification take effect immediately.

 

5.2.4.2 Port Statistic

To click on “Statistic” will show you the statistics of the port as the following screen.

Click on “Refresh”, the window will update the information from the Switch.

Click on “Reset”, the counter will reset to “0”

 

5.2.5 SNMP

Click on the “SNMP” tab, the screen below displayed:

5.2.6 Bridging

Click on “Bridging” tab, the following screen will displayed as below:

Please refer to section 4.7 for more about bridging.


5.3 Advanced Menu

Click on “Advanced” tab on the right side of the tab menu, the advanced menu will displaced as below:

Figure 5-3 Advanced Menu bar

The available options in “Advanced menu” are:

Console

Setup the console interface for either in-band or out-of-band management

Spanning Tree

The Spanning Tree Setup Screen

VLAN

The VLAN setup screen for Virtual LAN setup

Filter

Filter setup screen to help setup the MAC address to be filtered

Trunking

Parallel increases the bandwidth between the Switch and other switches.

Mirror

Help to sniff the switching port with a Network probe application or tools.

Reboot

Force to restart the Switch

 

5.3.1 Console

After click on the “Advanced” the following screen will displayed to show the “Console” setup.

Note: Enable the modem control, please continue the setups below to setup the correct dial in parameters.

5.3.2 Spanning Tree

The Spanning Tree Screen as below helps to setup the networks’ spanning tree capability. The main screen shows the latest setup of each port on the Switch.

To click on the “Spanning Tree Port Configuration” the following screen as below will displayed to shows the port’s SPT setting.

To modify the setting, click on the port you desired to modify, for example, port#22 as the figure below

The available parameters are:

Click on Apply to make the parameters take effect.

 

5.3.3 VLAN

The Switch supports up to 256 port based VLAN itself, to create the VLAN, click on VLAN tab from the Advanced Menu, the following screen displayed as below:

In default, all ports of the Switch belong to VLAN 1 of the Switch. The IP address represents the IP address of VLAN 1. That can be used to connect to the Switch.

5.3.3.1 Create a New VLAN

To Add a new VLAN, please follow the followings.

  1. Click on the “Add Group” button and the screen like following displayed.

  2. Fill the VLAN ID (range from 2~4096) and the group name. The IP address and Subnet Mask is a option field for your VLAN

  3. Key in the IP and Subnet mask to this VLAN will need the VLAN group member follow the IP domain and subnet mask for network IP routing.

  4. Click on “Apply” button, the screen as below shows to a new VLAN created.

  5. Click on the VLAN you just created, the popup screen as point 1 displayed with the field about the information of the VLAN turns gray. Click on “Add” the popup screen as below shows.

  6. Select the “Tag” and “Untagged” port as your network plan.

  7. Click on “Apply”, the VLAN configuration as below displayed.

  8. Click on “Apply” again to confirm the VLAN setting.

5.3.3.2 Remove port from VLAN

1. To remove ports from the VLAN group, select the VLAN from the VLAN screen.

2. Click on “Remove” button to remove the ports.

3. Click on “Apply” to confirm the change.

 

5.3.4 Filter

Click on the “Filter” tab from the “Advanced” Menu, the screen as below displayed.

The two groups for filtering are:

The example is as following:

The packets from “00-30-4f-12-34-56” and “57” will never forward any packets to any address in the Switch.

And the packets from “00-30-4f-12-34-58” will never receive packets forward from the Switch since it is filtered by the Switch..

 

5.3.5 Trunking

The trunking support of the Switch can be supported on the 10/100Base-TX TP ports with up to four groups where up to four ports can form a trunk group.

Click on “Trunking” tab from the “Advanced” menu, the screen as below shows:

 

5.3.5.1 Add Trunk

To add a trunk group, click on the group port field, for example, group 1. Then click on the desired port, for example, port 1 and port 2.

Click on “Change”, the screen as below will displayed.

Click on “Apply” to make the change take effect.

Note: Each Trunk group can be any port in the same port color. I.e. port#1 to port#12, and port 13 to port 24. It is not allowed to have a trunk in different color
Note: The Switch will automatically allocate the ports follow the trunk groups, please check your VLAN setting after you have make any changes to the trunking. Or, it is recommended to setup the trunk before setup your VLAN ports.

To create another group, say, group 2, click on group 2 filed and select the port. Then click “Change” and “Apply”.

 

5.3.5.2 Remove Trunk group

To remove the Trunks, click on the Group field, for example t Group 2, the port selection button will being activated. Select the port(s) you want to remove to disable the selection button. Then click on “Change”. The group filed will change as the selection button field.

Click on “Apply” to make the change take effect.

5.3.6 Mirror

A switching port of a Layer 2 switch is a dedicated bandwidth. The rest switching port of the switch will have no chance to receive the packets from the port unless there is packets need to forward to another switching port.

Base the operation, the network manager will have no chance to probe the switching port unless the probe is in the switching domain.

The Switch with mirror function will help the manger to detect the switching port by the assigned monitor port. Port 1 can be used to monitor port 2 to port 12 while port 13 can be used to monitor port 14 to port 24. One port can be monitored at a time.

The following figure shows the screen in “Monitor” tab

The monitor mode can be used to adjust the monitor mode:

  • Receive: Used to watch the activity of the switch segment. The default value.
  • Transmit: Monitor the packets received from other switching ports.
Note: As soon as mirroring enabled, the source port, i.e. port 1 or port 13 will disable its filtering/forwarding capability and only act follow the destination port..

 

5.3.7 Reboot

To reboot the Switch, click on “Reboot” tab and the following screen displayed.

Click on “Reboot The Switch” button, the popup screen will ask to confirm the action. Click on “Yes” to confirm the reboot process. And it will take about 30 seconds to reboot the system and re-connect to the Switch by the “Refresh” or “Reload” icon of your browser.


5.4 Logout

to logout from the Switch, click on “Logout” from the General Menu, and click on the button “Logout” to leave the Switch management interface.


5.5 Help

The “Help” button in the “General” menu, shows the brief description about the Switch, the following screen show you the whole help information by topic. You can also find the “Help” button in the tab as well.


[Top of this Chapter] Configuring the Switch Table of content Appendix A



Copyright (c) 2000, Planet Technology Corp.
logo-b.GIF (2535 bytes)