Catalyst 500 express setup

Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. All Community This category This board. How to configure a Cisco Catalyst Express series switch. Labels: Other Switching. Introduction Resolution Reference Introduction How to configure a Cisco Catalyst Express series switch Resolution This is the basic setup procedure for the Cisco Catalyst Express series switch: Make sure that nothing is connected to the switch.

Power up the switch. Wait for the Setup LED to blink green. Press the Setup button. When the Setup button is pressed, a switch port LED begins to blink green. Open a web browser. Enter the network settings, username and password and click Submit. Customize the Smartport role assignment later on. Click Submit to save changes and finish the basic configuration. Remember to set up you LAN adapter with an IP address within the same subnet of the switch management interface.

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Need advise on connecting the fiber cable between two switch Created by mahendarec on AM. Need advise on connecting the fiber cable between two switches. If a remote switch does not support If the remote switch is the root bridge, the switch port does not go to blocking mode. In this case, the switch port trunk status is ON at both ends of the switches, but there is not any communication between the switches through these ports.

There are no diagnostic messages displayed on the Catalyst Express device. The Smartport role Router automatically enables If the main interface of the remote router is used, make sure the interface of the router is part of the native VLAN of the switch port. Do not apply the Other role to the ports that are connected to a sniffer or intrusion detection system devices. Check Apply the selected port role to all ports.

The icon for the selected Smartports role appears on the ports. The switch ships with a default VLAN to which all the switch ports initially belong. Using only the default VLAN might be sufficient based on the size and requirements of your network. VLAN creation, modification, or deletion done on this switch does not affect the other switches in the domain.

A switch port applied with one of these port roles can send and receive traffic for all VLANs configured on the switch, one of which can be identified as a native VLAN:. Both the switch port and the attached device port must be in the same native VLAN.

If your network requires that you segregate either or both voice and guest traffic, you need to create additional VLANs. This VLAN ensures that all guest and visitor traffic is segregated from the rest of your network traffic and resources. Click Submit to save your changes. An EtherChannel is a group of two or more Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet switch ports bundled into a single logical link that create a higher bandwidth link between two switches. The switch supports up to six EtherChannels.

Complete these steps to create EtherChannels between a Cisco Catalyst Express and another switch:. Configure the remote switch according to the mode you have chosen. If you have chosen LACP protocol to negotiate the channel, then configure the remote switch as this output shows:. If you choose to configure the channel statically, then configure the remote switch as this output shows:. The status should be displayed as 'In Use'. Otherwise, you can run diagnostics on the ports to determine the problem.

Issue the show etherchannel summary command in the Cisco switch to verify the status of the EtherChannel configuration. The Protocol field in the output displays LACP if it is used to negotiate the channel, blank or otherwise. This example shows the EtherChannel error message due to the EtherChannel misconfiguration on the remote switch.

Note: The sample configuration makes use of the Cisco series router. Apply the Desktop Smartport role to ports Gig2 and Gig4. See the Apply Smartport Roles to Ports section of this document for the configuration procedure. The Switched Port Analyzer SPAN feature, which is sometimes called port mirroring or port monitoring, selects network traffic for analysis by a network analyzer.

The destination port should be configured with the Diagnostics Smartport role. This can only be done using the Cisco Network Assistant software. Contents Introduction. Apply this role to ports that are connected to desktop devices, such as desktop PCs, workstations, notebook PCs, and other client-based hosts. Optimized for desktop connectivity Configurable VLAN setting Port security enabled to limit unauthorized access to the network.

Apply this role to ports that are connected to other switches. Configured as an uplink port to a backbone switch for fast convergence Enables Apply this role to ports that are connected to WAN devices that connect to the Internet, such as routers and Layer 3 switches with routing service capabilities, firewalls, or VPN Concentrators.

Configured for optimal connection to a router or firewall for WAN connectivity Enables Apply this role to ports that are connected to IP phones. A desktop device, such as a PC, can be connected to the IP phone. Both the IP phone and connected PC have access to the network and the Internet through the switch port. This role prioritizes voice traffic over data traffic to ensure clear voice reception on the IP phones. Connected to the AP are mobile devices, such as wireless laptop PCs.

Configured for optimal connection to a wireless access point Enables Apply this role to ports that are connected to servers that provide network services, such as Exchange servers, collaborative servers, terminal servers, file servers, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP servers, IP private branch exchange PBX servers, and so on. This role is for Gigabit or non-Gigabit ports, based on the server type to be connected.