Dell PowerConnect 5424 User Manual

6 Contents
6 Configuring System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Defining General Device Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Viewing Device Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Defining System Time Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Viewing System Health Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Viewing the Versions Page
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Resetting the Device
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Configuring SNTP Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Defining SNTP Global Parameters
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Defining SNTP Authentication Methods
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Defining SNTP Servers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Defining SNTP Interfaces
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Managing Logs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Defining Global Log Parameters
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Displaying RAM Log Table
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Displaying the Log File Table
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Viewing the Device Login History
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Configuring the Remote Log Server Settings Page
. . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Defining Device IP Addresses
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Configuring the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Defining IPv4 Default Gateways
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Defining IPv4 Interfaces
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Defining DHCP IPv4 Interface Parameters
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Defining IPv6 Interfaces
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Defining IPv6 Default Gateway
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Defining IPv6 ISATAP Tunnels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Defining IPv6 Neighbors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Viewing the IPv6 Routes Table
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring Domain Name Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Defining Default Domains
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Mapping Domain Host
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Configuring ARP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Running Cable Diagnostics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Viewing Copper Cable Diagnostics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Viewing Optical Transceiver Diagnostics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Dell PowerConnect 5424 Specifications

General

Ports	24 x 10/100/1000Base-T
Switching Capacity	48 Gbps
Forwarding Rate	35.7 Mpps
VLAN Support	Yes
Rack Mountable	Yes
Power Supply	Internal
MAC Address Table Size	8K entries
RAM	128 MB
Flash Memory	16 MB
Voltage Required	100-240V AC
Management	Web, CLI, SNMP
Operating Temperature	0°C to 45°C
Storage Temperature	-20°C to 70°C
Humidity	10% to 90% (non-condensing)
Standards Compliance	IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab
Remote Management Protocol	SNMP, RMON, Telnet
Features	QoS, VLAN, Link Aggregation