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Cisco SG200 Series User Manual

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Cisco Small Business
SG200 Series 8-port Smart Switches
ADMINISTRATION
GUIDE

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Cisco SG200 Series Specifications

General IconGeneral
ModelSG200 Series
LayerLayer 2
TypeSmart Switch
Port TypeGigabit Ethernet
Form FactorDesktop or Rack-mountable
ManagementSNMP
VLAN SupportYes
Quality of Service (QoS)Yes
SecurityYes
MAC Address Table8K
Jumbo Frame SupportYes
Operating Temperature0 to 40°C (32 to 104°F)
Storage Temperature-4°F to 158°F (-20°C to 70°C)
Humidity10% to 90% non-condensing
Power SupplyInternal
Ports8
Switching Capacity16 Gbps
Forwarding Rate11.9 Mpps

Summary

Getting Started

Starting the Web-Based Switch Configuration Utility

Guides users on navigating the switch's web interface and outlines browser compatibility and restrictions.

Quick Start Device Configuration

Offers quick links to frequently accessed configuration pages from the Getting Started section for efficient setup.

Window Navigation

Details the layout of the web interface, explaining the application header, buttons, and navigation window elements.

Viewing Statistics

System Summary

Provides an overview of the switch's hardware model, software version, uptime, and system identification details.

Interface Statistics

Displays statistics for packet transmission and reception on selected switch interfaces, including error counts.

Etherlike Statistics

Reports on Ethernet-specific statistics, such as FCS errors, collisions, and frame types on ports and LAGs.

802.1X EAP Statistics

Shows EAP packet statistics relevant to IEEE 802.1X Extensible Authentication Protocol on switch ports.

IPv6 DHCP Statistics

Details statistics for DHCPv6 packet exchanges, essential for IPv6 management interface configuration.

RADIUS Statistics

Presents statistics related to RADIUS server communication for authentication and authorization processes.

RMON

Monitors traffic statistics using SNMP, providing packet size and physical layer error information.

Logs

Explains the generation, storage, and retrieval of system messages and events from RAM and flash memory.

Administration

Configuring System Settings

Sets system-wide parameters like hostname, location, and contact information to identify the switch.

Management Interface

Configures the network interface for switch management, supporting IPv4 and IPv6 addressing.

Managing User Accounts

Manages user access by creating, modifying, and deleting user accounts and passwords for switch administration.

Enabling Management Services

Controls network management services, including HTTP access and configuring idle session timeouts for enhanced security.

Login Sessions

Displays currently active management login sessions, providing details on user, IP address, and session duration.

Login History

Records previous login attempts, including user name, protocol used, and source IP address.

Time Settings

Configures the switch's system clock, supporting manual settings or SNTP synchronization with network time servers.

System Logs

Manages system logging, defining event severity levels, log aggregation, and directing logs to remote servers.

File Management

Handles firmware upgrades, language file updates, configuration backups, and file copying operations.

Rebooting the Switch

Provides options to restart the switch, either with the current configuration or resetting to factory defaults.

Pinging Hosts

Allows testing network connectivity by sending ICMP echo requests to specified IP addresses from the switch.

Configuring Control Packet Forwarding

Manages the handling of control packets like CDP, LLDP, and Dot1X, defining actions such as drop, forward, or terminate.

Diagnostics

Offers diagnostic tools including copper port cable testing, port mirroring, and monitoring CPU and memory utilization.

Enabling Bonjour

Enables Bonjour service for network discovery of switch services via multicast DNS (mDNS).

LLDP-MED

Configures Link Layer Discovery Protocol Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED) for network policy, device location, and PoE endpoint management.

Configuring DHCP Client Vendor Options

Allows configuration of DHCP client options to include vendor-specific information in DHCP requests.

Port Management

Configuring Port Settings

Configures individual port parameters like administrative status, speed, duplex mode, and flow control.

Link Aggregation

Combines multiple physical links into a single logical link (LAG) for increased bandwidth and redundancy.

Configuring PoE

Manages Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) settings, including power budget, priority, and port-specific power limits.

Green Ethernet

Enables energy-saving features like Energy Detect Mode to reduce power consumption on copper ports.

VLAN Management

Creating VLANs

Allows the creation and configuration of Virtual LANs (VLANs) with specific IDs and optional names.

Configuring VLAN Interface Settings

Configures VLAN tagging behavior for ports and LAGs, defining them as Access, Trunk, or General interfaces.

Configuring VLAN Membership

Manages port membership in VLANs, specifying whether ports act as tagged or untagged members.

Setting the Default VLAN

Designates the default VLAN for ports that are not explicitly assigned to any VLAN.

Voice and Media

Configures features to prioritize voice and video traffic, enhancing quality of service for multimedia applications.

Spanning Tree

Overview of Spanning Tree

Introduces the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and its role in preventing network loops and ensuring path redundancy.

Configuring STP Status and Global Settings

Controls the global operation of STP, including its state, mode (CST/RSTP), and bridge priority.

Configuring STP Interface Settings

Configures STP parameters on a per-port or per-LAG basis, managing port states and edge port behavior.

RSTP Interface Settings

Details Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) interface settings for faster network topology convergence.

MAC Address Tables

Configuring Static MAC Addresses

Manually adds and configures static MAC addresses, associating them with specific ports and VLANs.

Configuring the Aging Time for Dynamic Addresses

Sets the duration for which dynamic MAC address entries remain in the table before being removed.

Dynamic MAC Addresses

Displays and filters dynamically learned MAC addresses, showing learned VLAN, MAC address, and interface information.

Multicast

Multicast Properties

Configures global or per-VLAN multicast forwarding modes to control how multicast packets are distributed.

Configuring MAC Group Addresses

Manages associations between multicast group MAC addresses and VLANs for efficient packet forwarding.

Configuring Group-to-Port

Establishes associations between VLANs and multicast group MAC addresses to define port forwarding rules.

Configuring IGMP Snooping

Enables IGMP snooping to manage IPv4 multicast traffic by intercepting membership reports and queries.

Configuring MLD Snooping

Enables MLD snooping to manage IPv6 multicast traffic by intercepting listener reports and queries.

Configuring IGMP Multicast Router Interfaces

Configures interfaces to act as IGMP multicast router interfaces for managing IGMP clients within VLANs.

Configuring MLD Multicast Router Interfaces

Configures interfaces to act as MLD multicast router interfaces for managing MLD clients within VLANs.

IP Configuration

ARP Table

Displays the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table, mapping IP addresses to MAC addresses of communicated devices.

Domain Name System

Configures the switch as a DNS client for hostname resolution and supports static hostname-to-IP mappings.

Configuring DNS Servers

Sets up DNS servers for hostname resolution and defines default domain names and query parameters.

Hostname Mapping

Manages static associations between hostnames and IP addresses, including dynamically learned entries.

Viewing and Deleting Dynamic DNS Entries

Lists and allows deletion of dynamic DNS entries learned through DNS lookup services.

Security

RADIUS

Configures RADIUS client settings and servers for centralized authentication and authorization of network access.

Password Strength

Enforces password policies to enhance security, including minimum length, aging, and character complexity requirements.

Management Access Profile Rules

Defines profiles and rules to restrict or permit management access based on users, ports, and source IP addresses.

Authentication Methods

Selects authentication methods for user access to switch ports, supporting Local, RADIUS, or no authentication.

Storm Control

Configures storm control to mitigate network instability caused by excessive broadcast, multicast, or unicast traffic.

Port Security

Implements port security to restrict MAC addresses on a per-port basis, preventing unauthorized device access.

802.1X

Configures port-based network access control using the IEEE 802.1X protocol for authentication.

Quality of Service

QoS Properties

Configures QoS trust modes for ports and defines priority values for egress queue assignments based on packet information.

Defining Queues

Configures traffic scheduler modes (Strict Priority, WRR) and bandwidth settings for egress queues.

Mapping CoS/802.1p Priorities to Queues

Maps IEEE 802.1p priority values from Ethernet frames to specific egress queues for traffic prioritization.

Mapping IP Precedence to Queues

Maps IP Precedence values from IP packet headers to egress queues for prioritizing network traffic.

Mapping DSCP Values to Queues

Maps Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) values from IP packets to egress queues for traffic prioritization.

Defining Rate Limit Profiles

Creates rate limit profiles to define maximum incoming traffic rates for ports, specifying criteria for exceeding limits.

Applying Rate Limit Profiles to Interfaces

Assigns configured rate limit profiles to specific network interfaces (ports or LAGs).

Traffic Shaping

Configures traffic shaping to control the packet output rate on ports and LAGs by managing bandwidth utilization.

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