Configuring the WSM using Device Manager

Configuring the Web Switching Module

Before you begin

Text conventions

Related publications

Hard-copy technical manuals

How to get help

Getting started with Device Manager

About Device Manager

Starting Device Manager

Opening a device

SNMP community string default values

Troubleshooting the opening of a device

Understanding the Device Manager window

Accessing the Edit > WSM Card submenu

WSM Card Edit submenu selections

Accessing the Edit > WSM Card > L4 Switching submenu

WSM Card L4 Switching submenu selections

Accessing the Graph > WSM Card submenu

Accessing the Actions menu

Actions menu selections

Accessing the Help menu

Help menu selections

Using the chassis shortcut

Chassis shortcut menu commands

Using the WSM shortcut

WSM shortcut menu commands

Using the WSM port shortcut

WSM port shortcut menu commands

Selecting objects

The WSM device view

Interpreting the status of LEDs and ports

Viewing the port color code legend

Using Device Manager dialog boxes

Editing objects

Editing a text field

Formats for entering numeric values

Editing a field from a selection list

Using buttons in dialog boxes

Applying and saving changes

Refreshing the screen

Filtering table content

Adding a table filter

Removing a table filter

Removing all table filters

Replacing a table filter

Browsing a read only dialog box

Opening WSM online Help

Port management

About the device view

Configuring ports

Port--General tab fields

Setting port parameters

Port tab fields

Configuring VLAN tagging

Monitoring link state

Enabling or disabling filtering on a port

Port--Filtering tab fields

Applying filters to a port

Port--Filter membership tab

Removing a filter from a port

Default multi-link trunk configuration

Viewing trunk group configurations

Trunks configuration fields

Configuring a trunk group

Deleting a trunk group

Configuring Layer 2 operations

Management IP address used for VLAN 4093

VLANs and IP interfaces

About VLAN tagging

About Jumbo frames

Isolating Jumbo frame traffic using VLANs

Routing Jumbo frames to non-Jumbo frame VLANs

Viewing current VLAN membership

Virtual LAN--VLAN Membership fields

Configuring a VLAN

Viewing MultiLink trunk and VLAN membership

About Spanning Tree protocol

VLANs and spanning tree protocol

Understanding multiple spanning trees

Why multiple Spanning Trees?

Example--four-WSM topology with single spanning tree

Example--four-WSM topology with multiple spanning trees

Multiple spanning tree example--determining root cost

Root cost comparison

Configuring spanning tree protocol

Configuring a Spanning Tree Group

Bridge--STG tab fields

Select VLANS to Associate with STG dialog box fields

About Spanning Tree bridge

Configuring Spanning Tree bridge

Bridge--General tab fields

Bridge--Spanning Tree tab fields

Configuring Spanning Tree port

Port--Spanning Tree tab fields

Enabling or disabling spanning tree on a port

Bridge--STG Port tab fields

Bridge--STP Port tab

IP routing configuration

Configuring IP interfaces

Manually configuring an IP interface

Interfaces fields

Configuring default gateways

IP Routing--General tab fields

Gateways fields

Enabling IP forwarding

Viewing IP routes

Routes tab fields

Configuring domain name system servers

Defining IP Address Ranges for the Local Route Cache

Adding and removing local networks

Local IP configuration fields

Configuring routing information protocol

Configuring IP forwarding per port

IP Routing--Ports tab fields

Configuring static routes

Static route configuration fields

Deleting a static route

Configuring virtual router redundancy protocol

Enabling virtual routing on the WSM

Virtual Routing--General tab fields

Configuring a virtual router

Configuring VRRP authentication on an IP interface

Virtual Routing--Interfaces fields

Configuring VRRP group parameters

Configuring virtual router priority tracking

Network management and diagnostics

Supported network management software

About the SNMP agent

Alteon WebSystems enterprise MIBs supported

SNMP standard MIBs supported

SNMP generic traps supported

SNMP Spanning Tree traps supported

Supported SNMP traps

Configuring the SNMP agent

Generating system messages

Enabling or disabling syslog and SNMP traps

Syslog trap fields

Enabling or disabling authentication traps

Trap hosts fields

Configuring community strings

Configuring boot options

Viewing current software image details

Image tab fields

Selecting a software image to run

Selecting a configuration block to run

About port mirroring

Configuring port mirroring

Port mirror fields

Enabling port mirroring

General tab fields

Viewing device information

Configuring filters for Layer 4 switching

About Layer 4 filtering

Filtering tasks

Well-known protocol numbers

Well-known TCP/UDP application port numbers

About default filters

Configuring a default filter

Layer 4 Switching Filters--Filters fields

Creating a new filter

Server load balancing basics

About server load balancing

Methods of server load balancing

Topology rules for SLB

About load balancing metrics

Least connections

About connection timeouts for real servers

About real server maximum connections

Assigning backup or overflow servers

Virtual server load balancing

How virtual server load balancing works

Configuring virtual server load balancing

Configuring each real server

Real Servers fields

About IP address ranges for SLB

Configuring IP address ranges for SLB

SLB--General tab fields

Defining an IP interface on the WSM

Configuring a real server group

Real server group fields

Select Real Servers to Include in Group fields

Configuring a virtual server

Virtual server fields

Configuring services for a virtual server

Virtual server services fields

Configuring ports for server load balancing

SLB--Ports fields

Enabling or disabling server load balancing

Synchronize tab fields

Extending SLB topologies

Configuring proxy IP addresses

Disabling server processing on a switch port

Configuring a proxy IP address for a port

Mapping a virtual server port to a real server port

Mapping multiple real server ports

Multiple port mapping example

Configuration steps for mapping multiple ports

Configuring multiple port mapping

Real Server Port fields

Providing direct access to real servers

About direct server return

Configuring direct server return

Configuring direct access mode

Assigning multiple IP addresses

Using proxy IP addresses

Monitoring real servers and services

Using delayed binding to prevent DoS attacks

Enabling delayed binding for a server service

Detecting SYN attacks

Configuring SYN attack detection

SYN Attack fields

Load balancing special services

IP server load balancing

Configuring IP server load balancing

FTP server load balancing

Configuring FTP server load balancing

Domain name server load balancing

Configuration tasks for DNS load balancing

Configuring UDP-based DNS server load balancing

Configuring TCP-based DNS server load balancing

Real Time Streaming Protocol server load balancing

How RTSP server load balancing works

RTSP implementation comparison

Pre-configuration tasks for RTSP SLB

Configuring RTSP Layer 4 load balancing

Configuring RTSP Layer 7 load balancing

Wireless application server load balancing

How WAP SLB works using RADIUS snooping

Configuring WAP SLB using RADIUS snooping

Configuring WAP server load balancing

Wireless Application Protocol--General tab fields

Configuring the WAP RADIUS snooping filter

Intrusion Detection server load balancing

How Intrusion Detection SLB works

Configuring Intrusion Detection server load balancing

Configuring real servers for IDS SLB

Configuring real server groups for IDS SLB

Configuring ports for IDS SLB

Enabling IDS SLB

WAN link load balancing

How WAN link load balancing works

Configuring WAN link load balancing

Pre-configuration tasks for WAN link load balancing

Configuring real servers for WAN link load balancing

Configuring real server groups for WAN link load balancing

Configuring filters for WAN link load balancing

Improving WSM performance with VMA

Using proxy IP addresses and VMA

Firewall server load balancing

Firewall overview

Methods of firewall load balancing

About basic FWLB

About free-metric FWLB

About demilitarized zones

Basic FWLB implementation

Configuring basic FWLB

Configuring the 8600 switch for FWLB

Configuring FWLB on the public-side of the WSM network

Configuring FWLB on the private-side of the WSM network

Configuring the static routes at the firewalls for FWLB

Configuring basic FWLB with free-metric

Configuring basic FWLB with a DMZ

Monitoring the firewall

Monitoring firewall service

Monitoring physical links

Using HTTP Health Checks

Virtual private network server load balancing

Defining virtual private network

How VPN load balancing works

Configuring VPN load balancing

VPN load-balancing configuration example

Configuring private-side network devices

Configuring public-side network devices

Monitoring VPN configurations

Global server load balancing

Configuring GSLB

Defining remote GSLB peers for the local site

Global SLB--Remote Sites fields

Configuring remote GSLB services for the local site

Global SLB--General tab

IP proxy for non-HTTP redirects

How IP proxy works

Configuring IP proxy for non-HTTP redirects

About GSLB network preferences

Configuring GSLB network preferences

Global SLB--Lookup tab

Global SLB--Network Preferences fields

Application Redirection

About Application Redirection

Configuring Web Cache Redirection

Configuring delayed binding for Web Cache Redirection

Configuring RTSP for Web Cache Redirection

Configuring IP proxies with Application Redirection

Excluding noncacheable sites

Health Checking

About health checking

About service failures

About server failures

Enabling graceful server failure

Types of real server group health checks

Configuring a health check for a real server group

Modifying the health check interval and retries

ICMP health checking

ARP health checking

Direct server return health checking

Configuring DSR health checks

Link health checking

TCP health checking

Script-based health checking

Configuring script-based health checks

Application health checking

HTTP health checking

Configuring HTTP health checks

UDP-based DNS health checking

IMAP server health checking

RADIUS server health checking

Configuring the RADIUS authentication string

HTTPS/SSL server health checking

WAP gateway health checking

Configuring WSP content health checks

Defining WSP content to check

Configuring the UDP service for WSP health check

Configuring WTLS health checks

LDAP health checking

Configuring LDAP health checking

Changing the LDAP version

Maintaining session persistence

About session persistence

Effects of using source IP address for session persistence

Using cookies for session persistence

Using SSL session ID for session persistence

About cookie-based persistence

Defining permanent versus temporary cookies

Cookie properties

Handling client browsers that do not accept cookies

Defining cookie persistence modes

Insert cookie mode

Passive cookie mode

Rewrite cookie mode

Configuring cookie-based session persistence

Examples of cookie values

Example 1: Setting the cookie location

Example 2: Parsing the cookie

Example 3: Using passive cookie mode

Example 4: Using rewrite cookie mode

SSL session ID-based persistence

How SSL session ID-based persistence works

Example of SSL session ID-based persistence

Configuring SSL session ID-based persistence

Content-intelligent switching

URL-based server load balancing

URL string formats

Configuring URL-based SLB

Defining a string for URL load balancing

URL Parsing--Load Balance fields

Configuring a real server for URL-based load balancing

Enabling URL-based SLB for the server service

Monitoring URL-based SLB

Virtual hosting

Virtual hosting configuration overview

Configuring the host header for virtual hosting

Cookie-based preferential load balancing

Example of cookie-based preferential load balancing

Defining cookie-based criteria

Configuring cookie-based preferential load balancing

Configuring browser-smart load balancing

URL hashing for server load balancing

Configuring URL hashing

Configuring header hash load balancing

DNS load balancing

Configuring DNS query load balancing

Layer 7 RTSP load balancing

Configuring RTSP SLB using pattern matching

SLB--RTSP fields

Content-intelligent Web Cache Redirection

URL-based Web Cache Redirection

Defining URL-based WCR expressions

URL-based WCR illustration

Network address translation options

Configuring URL-based WCR

Configuring the WSM for SLB

Adding or removing noncacheable expressions

URL Parsing--Expressions fields

Configuring redirection requests

URL Parsing--Redirection tab fields

Configuring filters for Web Cache Redirection

Monitoring WCR statistics

Configuring HTTP header-based Web Cache Redirection

Configuring HTTP header-based redirection requests

Exclusionary string matching for real servers

Configuring exclusionary URL string matching

Regular expression matching

Standard regular expression characters

Rules for using standard regular expressions

Configuring regular expressions

Content precedence lookup

Using the operators Or and And

Configuring content precedence for a service

Assigning multiple strings

Configuring a Layer 7 deny filter

Bandwidth management

About bandwidth management

Statistics and history

BWM policy granularity limits

Contract classifications

Contract precedence

HTTP header-based BWM

Cookie-based BWM

Packet coloring (TOS bits) for burst limit

Using Virtual Matrix Architecture with BWM

Configuring bandwidth management

Configuration prerequisites for BWM

Enabling bandwidth management

Bandwidth Management--General tab fields

Configuring BWM policy

Traffic Policies fields

Configuring a BWM contract

Traffic Contracts fields

Configuring BWM classification

Assigning a BWM contract to a virtual server

Sending BWM statistics to a user

SLB--URL-Based BWM fields

Working with Statistics

About statistics and graphing

Working with data tables

Working with charts

WSM blade statistics

WSM Blade--IP tab fields

Received ICMP statistics

WSM Blade--ICMP In tab fields

Sent ICMP statistics

WSM Blade--ICMP Out tab fields

WSM Blade--RIP tab fields

SNMP statistics

WSM Blade--SNMP tab fields

WebOS statistics

WSM Blade--WebOS Stats tab fields

WSM Blade--Stats tab fields

MP CPU statistics

WSM Blade--MP CPU Stats tab fields

RADIUS account statistics

Radius Account tab fields

Bridge forwarding statistics

Forwarding statistics

Bridge Forwarding DB--Forwarding tab

Base port statistics

Bridge Forwarding DB--Base Port tab

TP port statistics

Bridge Forwarding DB--TP Port tab fields

Port statistics

Port interface statistics

Port--Interface tab fields

Ethernet statistics

Port--Ethernet tab fields

Bridge statistics

Port--Bridge tab fields

Load balance statistics

Port--Load Balance tab fields

Port CPU statistics

Port--CPU Statistics tab fields

IP routing statistics

Route statistics

IP Routing--Route tab fields

IP Routing--ARP tab fields

Interface statistics

IP routing--Interface tab fields

IP address statistics

IP Routing--IP Address tab fields

IP Routing--TCP tab fields

TCP connection statistics

IP Routing--TCP Connection tab fields

IP Routing--UDP tab fields

UDP local statistics

IP Routing--UDP Local tab fields

Virtual routing statistics

Virtual routing statistics

Virtual Routing--Statistics tab fields

Virtual routing state data

Virtual Routing--State tab fields

Layer 4 statistics

Server load balance statistics

Real server port statistics

SLB--Real Server Ports tab fields

Real servers statistics

SLB--Real Servers tab fields

Groups statistics

SLB--Groups tab fields

Virtual servers statistics

SLB--Virtual Servers tab fields

Real servers state data

SLB--Real Servers State tab fields

Maintenance statistics

SLB--Maintenance tab fields

SLB--DNS tab fields

TCP Limit statistics

SLB--TCP Limit tab fields

Filter statistics

L4 Filters--Statistics tab

Remote real servers data

Global SLB--Remote Real Servers tab fields

Redirect statistics

URL--Redirect tab fields

URL load balance statistics

URL--Load Balance tab fields

RTSP statistics

RTSP--Statistics tab fields

Wireless Application Protocol statistics

Add session statistics

WAP--Add Sessions tab fields

Delete session statistics

WAP--Delete Sessions tab fields

Bandwidth management statistics

Traffic contract statistics

BWM--Traffic Contracts tab fields

Switch port traffic contract statistics

BWM--Switch Port Traffic Contracts tab fields