Manage an EX Series Switch

View the Chassis Information of an EX Series Switch

• View information about ports—Hover over a port on the chassis view to view general information (such as administrative status, link status, and link mode) about the port.

  SeeTable 1 for more details.

  Note

  The ports on the chassis view are color coded depending on the admin and link statuses:

  • Green—If the admin status and link status are up.

  • Red—If the admin status is up and the link status is down.

  • Dark Gray—If the admin status and link status are down.

  • Light Gray—If the port is not configured as part of any LAN segment.

• View additional details of a port—Click a port to view additional details of the port.

  The Port Overview tab appears. Table 6 describes the fields on the Port Overview tab.

• View details of system meters—Hover over a system meter to view more information from the trays that appear. SeeTable 2 for more details.

• Perform various actions on an EX Series switch—Click Actions on the chassis view dashlet.

  A list of all actions that you can perform on the switch is displayed. See Table 3 for more details.

Table 1 describes the fields on the port view pane.

Table 2 describes the system meters available on the chassis view dashlet. The system meters display current data.

Table 3 describes the actions that you can perform on an EX Series switch.

View Information about an EX Series Switch

Click the Overview tab to view information about an EX Series switch.

• Past 1 hour

• Past 8 hours

• Past 1 day

• Past 1 week

• Past 1 month

Table 4 describes the dashlets on the Overview tab. The graphical representations on this tab display trends based on historical data.

View Information about Ports on an EX Series Switch

Click the Ports tab to view information about each port on an EX Series switch.

Table 5 describes the fields on the Ports tab.

• Search for a specific port by using keywords—Click the Search icon to search for a port by entering partial or full text of the keyword in the text box.

  The search results are displayed on the same tab.

• Filter the data displayed on the tab—Click the Filter icon to apply a quick filter. The filtered results are displayed on the same tab.

• Show or hide columns that contain information about the ports—Click the Show or Hide Columns icon to select or clear columns that you want to display or hide on the tab.

• View additional details of a port—Click a port in the Port column to view additional details of the port, on the Port Overview tab that appears.

  Table 6 describes the fields on the Port Overview tab.

Table 6 describes the dashlets available on the Port Overview tab.

You can select one of the following options as the time span for which you want to view the graph for these dashlets:

• Past 1 hour

• Past 8 hours

• Past 1 day

• Past 1 week

• Past 1 month

Deploying an Access Profile on a Switch

An access profile defines the list of RADIUS servers to be used for authentication and accounting. You can deploy only one access profile on a switch.

To deploy an access profile on a switch:

1. Select Resources > Devices and click the switch on which you want to deploy the access profile.

   The Devices page appears.

2. Click the Device Settings tab.

   The access profiles configured are listed in a tabular format.

3. Select the access profile that you want to deploy on the switch.
4. In the Type field:

   • Click Run now to deploy the access profile immediately.

   • Click Schedule at a later time to schedule a time for deploying the access profile.

     If you select the Schedule at a later time option, enter the date and time when you want to deploy, in the Date and Time fields that appear when you select the option.

5. Click Deploy.

   If you select the Run now option, a job is created to deploy the profile immediately; otherwise, the job to deploy is created on the date and at the time that you schedule.

Dissociating an Access Profile

To dissociate an access profile from a switch:

1. Select Resources > Devices and click the switch on which you want to deploy the access profile.

   The Devices page appears.

2. Click the Device Settings tab.

   The access profiles configured are listed in a tabular format and the access profile that is deployed on the switch is selected.

3. Do one of the following:

   • Select another profile, if you want to deploy another profile on the switch.

   • Click on the selected profile to clear the selection, if you don’t want to deploy any access profile on the switch.

4. In the Type field:

   • Click Run now to either deploy another access profile or dissociate the access profile immediately.

   • Click Schedule at a later time to schedule a time for the deployment.

     If you select the Schedule at a later time option, enter the date and time when you want to deploy, in the Date and Time fields that appear when you select the option.

5. Click Deploy.

   If you select the Run now option, a job is created for the deployment immediately; otherwise, the deployment job is created on the date and at the time that you schedule.

   After the access profile is deployed successfully, a message indicating that the switch is deployed successfully appears on top of the page. A link, View Logs, to view the job logs is also displayed.

6. (Optional) Click the View Logs link to view the details of the job to deploy the access profile.

   The Deploy Access Profile Details page appears. You can view the date and time the access profile was deployed and the status of the deployment job on this page.