Best Practice
Configuration of HP ProCurve Devices in a Campus Environment
Best Practice Document
Produced by CESNET led working group on Network monitoring (CBPD111) Authors: Tomas Podermanski, Vladimir Zahorik March 2010
© TERENA 2010. All rights reserved. Document No: Version / date: Original language : Original title: Original version / date: Contact: GN3-NA3-T4-CBPD111 March 2010 Czech “Configuration of HP ProCurve Devices in a Campus Environment” Version 1.2 of 3 December 2009 tpoder@cis.vutbr.cz, zahorik@cis.vutbr.cz
CESNET bears responsibility for the content of this document. The work has been carried out by a CESNET led working group on Network monitoring as part of a joint-venture project within the HE sector in the Czech Republic. Parts of the report may be freely copied, unaltered, provided that the original source is acknowledged and copyright preserved. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 23 8875, relating to the project 'Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3)'.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Basic Settings and Operations 1.1 Switch Access 1.2 Resetting to Factory Default 1.3 Firmware Upgrade 1.4 Setting Hostname 1.5 Setting Passwords 1.6 Time Zone 1.7 Time Servers 1.8 Default Gateway 1.9 Switch Management Access Addresses 1.10 Remote Logging 1.11 Basic SNMP Configuration 1.12 Authentication by Radius Servers 1.13 SSH to Access the Switch Management 1.14 Limiting Access via Insecure Protocols 2 L2 Configuration 2.1 Setting the Communication Parameters of the Switch Port 2.1.1 Speed and Communication Parameters 2.1.2 Port Trunking, LACP 2.1.3 Broadcast Limit 2.1.4 Spanning Tree 2.1.5 Discovery of Physical Topology (LLDP, CDP) 2.2 VLAN Configuration 2.2.1 Assigning Ports to VLAN 2.2.2 GVRP - Automatic VLAN Broadcasting 2.2.3 IGMP Configuration 2.2.4 MLD
Best Practice Document
Produced by CESNET led working group on Network monitoring (CBPD111) Authors: Tomas Podermanski, Vladimir Zahorik March 2010
© TERENA 2010. All rights reserved. Document No: Version / date: Original language : Original title: Original version / date: Contact: GN3-NA3-T4-CBPD111 March 2010 Czech “Configuration of HP ProCurve Devices in a Campus Environment” Version 1.2 of 3 December 2009 tpoder@cis.vutbr.cz, zahorik@cis.vutbr.cz
CESNET bears responsibility for the content of this document. The work has been carried out by a CESNET led working group on Network monitoring as part of a joint-venture project within the HE sector in the Czech Republic. Parts of the report may be freely copied, unaltered, provided that the original source is acknowledged and copyright preserved. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 23 8875, relating to the project 'Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3)'.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Basic Settings and Operations 1.1 Switch Access 1.2 Resetting to Factory Default 1.3 Firmware Upgrade 1.4 Setting Hostname 1.5 Setting Passwords 1.6 Time Zone 1.7 Time Servers 1.8 Default Gateway 1.9 Switch Management Access Addresses 1.10 Remote Logging 1.11 Basic SNMP Configuration 1.12 Authentication by Radius Servers 1.13 SSH to Access the Switch Management 1.14 Limiting Access via Insecure Protocols 2 L2 Configuration 2.1 Setting the Communication Parameters of the Switch Port 2.1.1 Speed and Communication Parameters 2.1.2 Port Trunking, LACP 2.1.3 Broadcast Limit 2.1.4 Spanning Tree 2.1.5 Discovery of Physical Topology (LLDP, CDP) 2.2 VLAN Configuration 2.2.1 Assigning Ports to VLAN 2.2.2 GVRP - Automatic VLAN Broadcasting 2.2.3 IGMP Configuration 2.2.4 MLD