QUANTUM NETWORKS SW-CLI-001 Quantum Switch User Guide

The Quantum Switch is a network switch that can be accessed and configured through Command Line Interface (CLI). It supports various methods of access including via Out-of-Band (OOB) port, console port, and SSH using network IP. The switch also offers quick setup using failover IP for easy configuration.

Product Usage Instructions

Accessing Quantum Switch via Out-of-Band (OOB) Port:

Connect laptop to OOB port in Quantum Switch through LAN bcable.
Assign the IP address 192.168.254.x series to the laptop LAN] adapter.

Open Putty application and enter OOB IP 192.168.254.254 with SSH selected.
Enter switch login credentials to access the CLI page.

Accessing Quantum Switch via Console:

Connect RJ45 to the console port of the switch and the other end to the PC.
Open Putty application.

Configure PuTTY Serial Settings with Board Rate = 115200 and Connection type = Serial.
Click on Open and enter switch username and password for access.

FAQ
How do I configure IP, Gateway, and DNS on Quantum Switch interfaces?

To assign a static IP address

Go to Global configuration mode: configure

Create VLAN 1 interface: interface vlan 1
Assign IP to VLAN 1: ip address 192.168.100.10 255.255.255.0

To verify: do show ip interface

How to Access the Quantum Switch Login Page for CLI

Steps to access the quantum switch via OOB port

First, connect Laptop to OOB port in Quantum Switch through Lan cable
Assign the 192.168.254.x series IP on the laptop Lan adapter

Open putty application and enter OOB IP 192.168.254.254 with selecting SSH by default SSH is enable in Quantum switch.
After accessing the IP address, you’ll be directed to the CLI page here need enter switch login credentials.

Steps to access the quantum switch via Console.

Connect RJ45 to the console port of the switch and other end to the PC.

Open putty application.
PuTTY Serial Settings (X is the number of the COM port, e.g. COM5)
Provide the Board Rate(speed) = 115200
Select Connection type = Serial
Click on Open. Enter switch username and password so you will get switch access.

How to Access the Quantum Switch Login Page for CLI

Steps to access the quantum switch via OOB port

First, connect Laptop to OOB port in Quantum Switch through Lan cable
Assign the 192.168.254.x series IP on the laptop Lan adapter
Open putty application and enter OOB IP 192.168.254.254 with selecting SSH by default SSH is enable in Quantum switch.
After accessing the IP address, you’ll be directed to the CLI page here need enter switch login credentials.

Steps to access the quantum switch via Console.

Connect RJ45 to the console port of the switch and other end to the PC.
Open putty application.
PuTTY Serial Settings (X is the number of the COM port, e.g. COM5)
Provide the Board Rate(speed) = 115200
Select Connection type = Serial
Click on Open. Enter switch username and password so you will get switch access.

Steps to access the quantum switch via SSH using Network IP.

Give Uplink on switch Port.

Connect laptop to any switch port through LAN cable
Find out the switch network IP using IP scanner.
Open Putty application and enter the Network Ip on Host Name = 192.168.100.200 (Ip address of Switch).

Select Connection type: SSH.
Click on Open. Enter switch username and password so you will get switch access.

Quick Setup using Failover IP

The default failover IP is 169.254.x.x, where 169.254 is constant & Last 2 Digits are based on MAC address of switch.
To Get the IP Address, first note the MAC address of the switch.
Convert the last 4 Hex digit of switch MAC address into Decimal using Hex to Decimal converter.
- (Can use any Hex to Decimal converter like https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-binary.html
- For an example, the MAC address of switch is 58:61:63:00:C5:E1, where last four digits are “C5:E1”. Now convert C5 and E1 to Decimal. C5 Decimal value will come as “197” and value of E1 will come as “225”. As per this the switch fail over IP will come as 169.254.197.225.
Now, Assign 169.254.1.20 (or any IP address of 169.254.x.x series except Switch’s failover IP) static IP address to the Desktop/Laptop device LAN port.

Open the browser and browse Switch’s Failover IP.
You will be on the configuration page.
Steps to Configure IP, Gateway, DNS
Steps to configure IP, Gateway, DNS to Quantum Switch Interfaces and to check Basic network settings:

To assign Static IP address

Go to Global configuration mode:
Training # configure

To create VLAN 1 interface:
Training(config)# interface vlan 1
Assign IP to VLAN 1: Training(config) #ip address 192.168.100.10 255.255.255.0 To verify: Training(config)#do show ip interface

To assign Dynamic IP address
Go to Global configuration mode: Training # configure

To create VLAN 1 interface: Training(config)# interface vlan 1

Assign IP to VLAN 1: Training(config) #ip address dhcp To verify: Training(config)#do show ip interface
To assign Gateway to switch interface Training(config)# interface vlan 1
To assign gateway Training(config)#ip default-gateway 192.168.100.1

To verify: Training(config)#do show Ip route
To assign DNS to switch Training(config)#ip name-server 8.8.8.8 4.4.4.4
To verify: Training(config)#do show running-config

To create a VLAN in switch Training(config)#vlan 10
To verify: Training(config)#do show vlan
To create multiple VLAN Training(config)#vlan 20-30

To check the mac address learning in the switch Training # show mac address
To check the ARP table running in switch – ARP table consists with IP address. Training #show arp
To check interfaces created in your switch Training # show IP interface

If we need to check Firmware in switch Training(config)# do show version

Steps to Create Privilege Level User Profiles with CLI

To create the monitor profile username and password: Training(config)# username abc password abc privilege 1

Exit from admin user and login to monitor user using your provided credentials
Try to enter global configuration mode: Training>configure (You will get error like unrecognized command)
Check IP interfaces present in the switch Training > show ip interface

Check switch port interfaces in switch Training > show interface status
To shift monitor user to admin user Training > enable

Configure Switch Interfaces Using CLI

Check switch port interfaces in switch:
Training(config)# do show interface status
Select the port which you want to do configuration changes in switch port
Training(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/O/4

To apply negotiation use:
Training(config)# negotiation
To disable the negotiation on switch port
Training(config-if) # no negotiation
If you want to shut down the switch port then use:
Training(config)#shutdown
To unshut the port:
Training(config)# no shutdown
Manually if you need to set speed to this port then:
Training(config)# speed 100

If you want to change switch port to full duplex to half duplex:
Training(config)# duplex half
To verify configuration changes on switch port you can use the command:
Training(config)# do show interface configuration
If you need to check POE power on all switch ports you can use:
Training(config)# do show power inline
To configure the port as access port and to assign VLAN 10 to that port

To configure the port as Trunk port and to assign multiple VLANs to that port

Training(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/0/5
Training(config-if) # switchport mode trunk

Stack Configuration Steps in CLI

Main Switch Configuration for Stacking

We need to go global configuration mode so use this command

Training # configure
To enter the specified stack unit or all stack units, enter this stack unit command in configuration mode by entering this below command

Training(config)# stack unit 1

Here we are configuring primary switch as master switch, and we are giving unit-id 1 fo master switch. This is the stack configuration command to configure the stack ports and unit.
Training(unit)# stack configuration links tel-2 unit-id 1
To exit back to global configuration mode use stack unit, use this below command
Training(unit)# exit

Now need to save configuration:
Training(config)# do write

Reboot the switch physically or in CLI:
Training(config)# do reload

Backup or Slave Switch Configuration for Stacking

We need to go global configuration mode so use this command

Training # configure
To enter the specified stack unit or all stack units, enter this stack unit command in configuration mode by entering this below command

Training(config)# stack unit 1
Here we are providing unit-id 2 to back up switch and this command is used to configure the stack ports and unit.

Training(unit)# stack configuration links te1-2 unit-id 2
Step 4: To exit back to global configuration mode use stack unit, use this below command Training(unit)# exit
Step 5: Now need to save configuration:

Training(config)# do write
Step 6: Reboot the switch physically or in CLI: Training(config)# do reload
Note1: Now you can check in master switch interface status it will show combined port details or interface details.

Training # show interface status
Note2: To verify the stack links in switch, use this below command Training(config)#do show stack links details

Configure LACP by Using Below Steps

Go to global configuration mode:

Training> configure
Select the interface range which you need to bundle the links:
Training(config)# interface range gigabitethernet1/O/2-5

Select channel group and mode:

Training(config-if-range) # channel-group 1 mode on
To verify: Training(config-if-range) # do show interface port-channel

To remove particular port from bundling
Select the port which you need to remove from bundling:

Training(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/O/4 use this command to remove the port:

Training(config-if) # no channel-group
To verify: Training(config-if-range) # do show interface port-channel

For Removing all ports from port bundling

Select the port range which you need to remove from the port bundling
Training(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/O/2-5 use this command to remove the port:

Training(config-if) # no channel-group

To verify: Training(config-if-range) # do show interface port-channel

PIM Configuration Steps in Switch Using CLI
To enter global configuration mode: Training # configure
If you want to enable PIM in the switch first, we need to enable multicast routing

Training(config)#Ip multicast-routing
Enable PIM on particular VLAN here need to select vlan interface

Training(config)#interface vlan 4
Now to enable PIM Training(config-if)#ip pim
Select the port to enable PIM on respective port.

Training(config)#interface gigabitethernet1/0/5
Step 6: Now to enable PIM Training(config-if) #ip pim To verify PIM configuration: Training(config)#do show ip pim interface

Configuring SPAN and RSPAN using CLI To Achieve Port Mirroring

Configuring SPAN

To Configure SPAN command, Here First, we need to define source port from which port we need to copy the traffic.
Training(config)# monitor session 1 source interface gigabitethernet 1/0/4
Now the copied data we need to send to analyser connected port or any computer connected port that is destination port and use below command to configure.

Training(config)# monitor session 1 destination interface gigabitethernet 1/0/6
To verify: Training(config)#do show monitor session

Configuring RSPAN
First, we need to create VLAN then need to define this VLAN as a remote VLAN
Training(config)#interface VLAN 150

Training(config)#remote

Now need to define source as remote VLAN to monitor session 2
Training(config)#monitor session 2 source remote VLAN 150 we need to define destination port to copy the traffic from source remote vlan

Training(config)#monitor session 2 destination interface gigabitethernet2/O/6
To verify: Training(config)#do show monitor session

Configure Extended ACL

Go to Global Configuration Mode

Training> configure

To create the extended ACL name
Training(config)# Ip access-list extended Test
If you wish to permit (from subnet 0.0.255.255 source to destination 192.168.100.10) permit ip 172.16.100.1 0.0.255.255192.168.100.10 0.O.O.O

If you wish to deny (from subnet 0.0.255.255 source to destination 192.168.100.10) deny ip 172.16.100.1 0.0.255.255192.168.100.10 0.O.O.O

To verify: do show access-lists
Ingress (input): Binding the created extended ACL (test) to port 5 and applying inbound (input) rules.
Training(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/O/5

Training(config)# service-acl input Test
To verify: Training(config)# do show running-config
Egress (output): Binding the created extended ACL (test) to port 6 and applying outbound(output) rules.

Training(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/O/6
Training(config)# service-acl output Test

To verify: Training(config)# do show running-config

Configuring QoS in Quantum Switch

Priority tagging by COS

You can observe this network there are two switches are connected user-1 is connected to SW-1 and user-2 is connected to SW-2. For Example, we want to prioritize the ICMP and TCP (video or voice traffic) traffic moving from user-1 to user-2 using cos method.
To achieve this configure the QOS parameters in SW-2 as shown below.

Note: For L2 switch we configure COS (Class Of Service).
For L3 switch we configure DSCP (Differentiated Service Code Point).
For L2 Switch –First we need to enable QOS advanced mode in the switch
Enable Quality of service for our traffic Switch(config)#qos advanced
(Define the Quality of service means which mode you are going to use like we configure COS for L2 Switch) Switch(config)#qos advanced-mode trust cos
Then we need to configure ACL to identify the traffic user 1 is initiating the traffic from 192.168.100.8 to switch 2(192.168.100.4) this traffic need to prioritize. (First, we need to create the Access list for our traffic to be permit or deny like we have created Test Access list)

Switch(config)#ip access-list extended Test
(Under the Test access list, we are going to permit icmp traffic between Source (192.168.100.8 0.0.0.0) to Destination (192.168.100.4 0.0.0.0)) icmp 192.168.100.8 0.0.0.0192.168.100.4 0.0.0.0 any any
(Under the Test access list, we are going to permit tcp traffic between Source (192.168.100.8 0.0.0.0) to Destination (192.168.100.4 0.0.0.0)) tcp 192.168.100.8 0.0.0.0 any 192.168.100.4 0.0.0.0 any (here you can permit all protocol traffic like telnet, ftp and so on for all)

Switch(config-if-al)# permit ip any any
(After created the Test Access list, we need to map it in the class-map)
Switch(config)#class-map test match-any (here we are going to map the Test Access list in Class-map by using above command)
Switch(config-cmap) #match access-group test
(After mapping Test Access list in Class-map, we need to map this class-map in the policy- map)
switch(config)#policy-map admin
(here we are going to map the class-map in policy-map)
switch(config-pmap)#class test
Now tagging the traffic if your marking layer 2 traffic then use cos O to 7 so I am selecting
set cos 4 or if you want to mark layer 3 traffic then use dscp O to 63 (this is important part, here we are going to set the prior means what traffic we need pass like 4, please follow the below table according to different traffic)

switch(config-pmap-c)#set cos 4

QOS Classes	Example
Class 0 – Best Effort	Traffic is handled on a first-come, first- served basis with no prioritization.
Class 1 – Real-Time Interactive	voice and video conferencing
Class 2 – Interactive and Transactional Data	online gaming or interactive web browsing
Class 3 – Multimedia Conferencing	video streaming or video conferencing
Class 4 – Broadcast Video	streaming video or IPTV services
Class 5 – Call Signaling:	VoIP or other real-time communication systems.
Class 6 – Network Control:	routing updates or management protocols
Class 7 – Network Management:	SNMP or syslog messages

Now whatever traffic you marked need to send out through the switch interface so need to define switch port

Switch(config-pmap-c)#exit
(here we are going to implement this Class of service in the interface) switch(config-pmap)#interface gigabitethernet1/0/1

(here we are going to map this policy-map with the interface)

switch(config-if)#service-policy input admin

Documents / Resources

QUANTUM NETWORKS SW-CLI-001 Quantum Switch [pdf] User Guide
SW-CLI-001, SW-CLI-001 Quantum Switch, Quantum Switch, Switch

References

User Manual

QUANTUM NETWORKS SW-CLI-001 Quantum Switch

Product Information

Accessing Quantum Switch via Console:

How to Access the Quantum Switch Login Page for CLI

How to Access the Quantum Switch Login Page for CLI

Configure Switch Interfaces Using CLI

Stack Configuration Steps in CLI

Backup or Slave Switch Configuration for Stacking

Configure LACP by Using Below Steps

Configuring SPAN and RSPAN using CLI To Achieve Port Mirroring

Configure Extended ACL

Configuring QoS in Quantum Switch

Documents / Resources

References

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