Two months ago, as I blogged about it I passed HP ProCurve AIS exam and shared a summary of my preparation notes, Last week I passed Master ASE – HP ProCurve Campus LANs [2010] online exam (HP2-Z04) and became HP Master ASE – MASE, so I thought to share parts of my study notes as some customers are buying ProCurve instead of Cisco Catalyst (Budget reasons) it’s good to know equivalent terminologies and commands. Do I recommend HP ProCurve over Cisco Catalyst? No.
Cisco vs. HP terminology
- Trunk Port = Tagged Port
- Port Channel Interface = Trunk Port
- Access port = Untagged Port
- Auxiliary VLAN (voice) = tagged/untagged
- Access port with Auxiliary = tagged (voice) + untagged (data)
vlan11
untagged a1
vlan12
voice
tagged a1 - Interface Gigabitethernet0/1 = interface 1
- Modular switches = interface a1 "Module name: a,b,c… from top left"
- HP does not send CDP (can receive) – HP speaks LLDP – IEEE802.1AB
- BPDU Guard = BPDU protection
- Keepalive = Loop protection
- SPAN = traffic mirroring
HP ProCurve software license
Edge License Features:
- IPv4 RIP + Static Routes
- IGMP
- ACLs
- QoS
- Bandwidth Control
- Edge Security
- Basic IPv6
Premium Features:
- OSPF + ECMP
- PIM
- IPv6 RIP + OSPFv3
- VRRP
- QinQ VLANs
WLAN Evolution
- 1st Gen: Standalone Access Points
- 2nd Gen: Centralized WLAN Management with Thin APs
- 3rd Gen: Multiservice Controller
- 4th Gen: Unified WLAN Architecture (Controller Blades) Mobility Controller
- Multi-Service Mobility Solution (MSM7xx)
- Mobility License: Guest Roaming
- Mobility Manager Software (on top of ProCurve Manager – PCM)
- Software updates
- WLAN Security settings
- Radio settings
- Rogue detection
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- ProCurve Guest Management Software
- Authentication
- Temporary Credentials + expiration + Printable Vouchers
- RF Manager
- IDS/IPS
- RF Planner
- Windows based WLAN planning software
- Multi-Service Mobility Solution (MSM7xx)
PoE Devices
- PD – Powered Device
- PSE – Power Sourcing Equipment
- IEEE802.3af
- IEEE802.3at (PoE+) up to 24W
- Keep higher priority ports on lower port numbers
- We can use power shelf (zl switch) or RPS for additional power
LLDP vs. LLDP-MED
- LLDP
- Network Management + Inventory data + IP/speed/duplex
- LLDP-MED
- Voice VLAN, QoS, Location services, advanced PoE. detailed inventory management:
- Class I IP communications controller
- Class II IP phones, end user IP communication
- Class III media streams, conference bridges
- Voice VLAN, QoS, Location services, advanced PoE. detailed inventory management:
Quality of Service
- Queues per port: 8
- Rate limits: ingress & egress
- GMB (guaranteed minimum bandwidth): egress only
- Classification
- CoS
- DSCP/IPP
- VLAN
- Interface
- L2 Protocol
- IP Address/port
- Marking
- 802.1p
- DSCP
Configurations
- CLI
- Menu Interface
- GUI (HTTP/HTTPS)
- PCM/PCM+
- User Level:
- Operator Level
- Manager Level
#password operator user-name operator plaintext password
#password manager user-name manager plaintext password
#include-credentials > to include security hashed texts in configuration views (Passwords/SSH key/RADIUS key, etc)
show front-panel-security > to check reset/clear button setting
Port Configurations
#speed-duplex 1000-full
Aggregated Port (Trunk)
#trunk 47-48 trunk1 trunk
#trunk 47-48 trunk1 lacp
#vlan 11 tagged trunk1
#interface 47 name ‘link to other switch’
show trunk
Once the trunk is configured ports will become "untagged vlan1"
Spanning Tree
#spanning tree
#spanning tree 1-3 admin-edge-port (default is auto-edge-port which will wait for 3 seconds to see if there’s any BPDU)
#no spanning tree 4 edge-port
#spanning tree protocol-version mstp
reload
#spanning tree config-name "name"
#spanning tree config-revision 1
#spanning tree instance 1 vlan 1,2
#spanning tree instance 2 vlan 3,4
show spanning tree mst-config
#spanning tree priority 0 (on root switch)
#spanning tree priority 1 (on secondary root switch)
#spanning tree instance 1 priority 0 (on root switch)
#spanning tree instance 2 priority 1 (on secondary root/instance)
PoE
show power-management
show power-management brief
#power threshold n (1-99) to alert if power usage raises
DHCP
#dhcp-snooping
#dhcp-snooping vlan 2
#dhcp-snooping trust a1 (trusted port)
#dhcp-snooping authorized-server 1.1.1.1 (DHCP server)
Traffic Mirroring
#interface a1 monitor all both mirror 1
#vlan 2 monitor ip access-group acl1 mirror 1
#mirror 1 port a2
show monitor
VLAN sample
vlan 11
name "VLAN11"
untagged a9-a12
ip helper-address 10.10.10.10
ip address 10.11.11.11 255.255.255.0
exit
IP Routing
#ip routing
#interface loopback 1 ip address 10.1.1.1
#ip route 10.0.0.0/24 10.1.1.254
router ospf
area backbone
vlan 2
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip ospf 10.1.1.1 passive
ip ospf 10.1.1.1 area backbone
ip ospf cost 10



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