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Click Manage > Switches to access this screen and double-click the organization/hierarchy view/network on the tree to change the scope.
The Switch List page lists all switches within your organization/hierarchy view/network, and allows you to choose each switch to view the port status, VLAN , STP and PoE.
The following describes the functions in this screen:
Move to: Select one or multiple switches and click to move the switches to another hierarchy view/network.
Remove From Networks: Select one or multiple switches and click to remove the switches from the current organization/hierarchy view/network.
Add From Inventory: Click this button to add switches from your existing inventory.
Detail: Click to display the individual switch details.
From the Switches page, you can click Details on the web interface to display detailed information about a switch.
PoE reset from the Switch Panel : User can mouse-over to the PoE port of the switch port panel and power-cycle the port, so the device attached to the port will be rebooted
Total PoE Usage: This bar graph displays the consumed, remaining, and total wattage utilized by Power over Ethernet.
Total PoE Utilization by Port: Displays the current PoE utilization by each port, in watts.
The System Settings section allows you to configure all primary networking options for your switch.
A Spanning Tree Protocol is a Layer 2 protocol that prevents loops in a network with redundant paths created by multiple switches. We recommend using this feature if your environment incorporates multiple switches.
Enable the STP option
Select a Protocol
Select a Bridge Priority value
Click Apply
The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a Layer 2, vendor-neutral protocol that allows network devices to advertise capabilities, identity, and other information. This data can potentially be queried by SNMP.
Enable the LLDP option
Click Apply
The Voice VLAN feature configures switches to automatically allow and prioritize voice traffic over a designated VLAN. This keeps voice traffic separate and prioritized over other traffic types.
Mode: Allows you to define the Voice VLAN mode.
Auto: Automatically advertises the Voice VLAN to connected devices via the LLDP-MED protocol.
OUIs: Determines whether a received packet is a voice packet by checking its source MAC address.
Switch Voice VLAN: Allows you to choose what VLAN is used for Voice VLAN. You can set up VLANs in Port Settings.
QoS Priority: Lets you define whether the switch will use the Quality of Service CoS value of the incoming packet, or tag the packet with a CoS value between 1-7.
OUIs: VoIP traffic has a pre-configured Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) prefix in the source MAC address. You can manually add a specific manufacturer's MAC address and description to the OUI table. All traffic received on the Voice VLAN ports from the specific IP phone with a listed OUI is forwarded on the voice VLAN.
Quality of service (QoS) allows operators to prioritize application traffic to ensure that latency-affected data, such as VoIP and video conferencing, is uninterrupted during periods of network congestion. Switches implement this by reading tagged packets and prioritizing them accordingly. Packets are classified using Class of Service (CoS) on the data link layer, and Differentiated Services Code Points (DSCP) on the network layer, mapped to a queue, then sent out accordingly as per QoS.
Trust Mode: Allows you to define whether the switch will use CoS, DSCP, or both trust modes for QoS.
Scheduling Method: Allows you to define what method the switch will use when assessing transmitting incoming packets in queues. Strict priority always prioritizes queues with a higher priority, while Weighted Round Robin (WRR) weights each queue by priority, then applies a round-robin policy when choosing packets for transmission. The queues are weighted as follows:
Queue Mapping: Tagged packets are sent to queues defined in this setting. For each CoS or DSCP value, you can choose the queue to which tagged packets are mapped.
IGMP Snooping is used for controlling multicast traffic. It listens to IGMP messages being processed by the switch and prevents these messages from being sent to hosts not part of the respective multicast.
Version: The available IGMP Snooping versions are v2 and v3. You can select either/or in the Version dropdown.
VLANS: You can enable IGMP Snooping for any VLAN by selecting the corresponding checkbox next to the VLAN ID.
Ethernet has used the 1500 byte frame size since its inception. Jumbo frames are network layer PDUs that have a size much larger than the typical 1500 byte Ethernet Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size. Jumbo frames extend Ethernet to 9000 bytes, making them large enough to carry an 8 KB application datagram plus packet header overhead. If you intend to leave the local area network at high speeds, the dynamics of TCP will require you to use large frame sizes.
The switch supports a jumbo frame size of up to 9216 bytes. Jumbo frames need to be configured to work on the ingress and egress port of each device along the end-to-end transmission path. Furthermore, all devices in the network must also be consistent on the maximum jumbo frame size, so it is important to do a thorough investigation of all your devices in the communication paths to validate their settings.
Jumbo Frame : Enter the size of a jumbo frame. The range is from 1522 to 9216 bytes.
Selecting one or more ports and clicking Configure will display the following settings:
Enabled: Allows you to enable or disable the connection for this port.
Label: Allows you to add a descriptor for this port.
Speed/Duplex: Allows you to define the following speed/duplex communication settings for this port:
Auto: Speed/Duplex will auto-negotiate based on the connected node.
1Gbps / Full Duplex
100 Mbps / Full Duplex
100 Mbps / Half Duplex
10 Mbps / Full Duplex
10 Mbps / Half Duplex
Power over Ethernet (PoE): Allows you to power a connected device through an Ethernet cable using your switch.
VLANs: Allows you to group devices to create a partitioned network on the same LAN.
Forward Ports: By configuring the forward ports, ports can be separated into different groups where traffic between different group are blocked.
Must know
ECS1xxx/2xxx - Firmware v1.2.74 or later
ECS5xxx - Firware v2.2.3 or later
EXT – Firmware v1.0.10 or later
Rate Limit: Allows you to limit the amount of incoming and outgoing traffic in Mbps.
Flow Control: Enabling this will have the switch regulate traffic during times of congestion.
QoS: If QoS is enabled in Switch Settings, you can configure additional settings per port.
CoS Value: All incoming packets that lack a CoS value will use the one set in this dropdown.
Trust CoS: If checked, the switch will queue packets tagged with CoS into their designated queues. If unchecked, all packets will leave the same queue.
VLAN Trunking: This allows the specific ports to receive/forward VLAN without adding this port to the member port of a specific VLAN. please notice that VLAN trunking will override the current VLAN port member setting except management VLAN.
System setting is followed by Switch setting from the Configure > Switch settings as default settings. If you want individual AP System settings to be different from the Switch Network- wide setting , you can click below part in the screen to override the setting .
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PDLG is a function that will automatically reboot PD devices when PoE switch found it was not responding. Which minimizes the downtime of network services and reduces admin effort via automatic processes.
In PDLG force ping mode, user have to set PD device IP manually. By keep pinging PDs, switch knows if PD is still alive or has to be rebooted.
PDLG also support auto mode which allows switch collecting PD information/status through LLDP preventing any PD IP changes under DHCP environment.
By fine tuning the reboot profiles, PDLG can correctly detects/reboot various PDs since every PD devices may have different response or bootup time.
ACLG is one of the option in PDLG auto mode. By enable ACLG, switch also considers Onvif discovery result to verify if the connected PD is surveillance device or not. Once switch make sure it is a surveillance device, it applies a ACLG reboot profile to corresponding port automatically.
Specified IP: Setting specified IP on a specific port.
Ping Interval: Setting ping IP interval on a specific port.
Ping Max Count: Setting ping max count on a specific port.
Power Recovery Interval: The waiting time between power off and power on a specific port.
PD BootUp Time: Setting Powered Device boot-up time on a specific port.
Reboot Max retry count : Setting the max number of reboot
LLDP/ACLG Expiry pending time: Settings the corresponding LLDP expiry pending time.
The default value of PDLG & ACLG is from the network wide profile settings
You can click lock icon to override the settings
Must know
ECS1xxx/2xxx - Switch firmware v1.2.80 or later
ECS5xxx - Switch firmware v2.2.10 or later
Port Mirroring allows you to copy packets on one or more ports to a mirroring destination port. You can attach a monitoring device to the mirroring destination port to view details about the packets passing through the copied ports. This is useful for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. The feature is available is at Manage > Switch < Details > Mirror
The following describe the labels on this screen :
Session id : A number identifying the mirror session. Switch supports up to 3 mirror sessions.
Session State : Select whether to enable or disable port mirroring.
Destination Port : The port which all mirrored data is sent to .
Ingress : indicates that only data being received will be mirrored.
Egress : indicates that only data being sent will be mirrored
Click the edit icon towards the right .
Enable the Session state.
Select the Destination port
Select the Ingress and Egress port
Click Apply
There are four types of port that you configured .
you can access this page through Configure > Switches > Detail > VLAN
Using the VLAN tab, you can manually configure VLANs on the switch. Click Add to add another VLAN.
enter the VLAN ID and VLAN name of the switch.
Click the edit button to have the Port Assignment.
You can click the Tagged field or Untagged field to assign the tagged / Untagged port.
The (T) indicates the ports that will have Tagged data.
The (U) indicates the ports that will have data Untagged
If you used to input manually. You can click the pencil icon to input the port numbers.
Remember to click Apply to finalize the settings
For Apartments or other network environments, a network administrator might need to create VLANs for each unit, so needs to create hundreds of VLANs for the whole network switches. This will help the network admin to configure VLAN at a time instead of creating the VLAN one by one in each switch.
This will export the current VLAN JSON file of the switch and allows you to edit locally.
You can manually set up multiple VLANs for a specific switch by importing a JSON file.
Click the example hyperlink to download the JSON file
and then adjust the VLAN settings locally
then click JSON file upload to import your custom JSON file.
So you can import VLAN settings at a time instead use the current Web GUI to edit them one by one. Please notice that It will override your VLAN settings if you ever create the VLAN manually.
After a single configuration, you can go to another Switch VLAN setting page to import the same text file, so to save time to go over the creation.
Port was assigned to a destination port . Port was assigned only data being sent will be mirrored . Port was assigned only data being received will be mirrored . Port was assigned both directions of data are being mirrored to the destination port.
This allows you to run the diagnostic tests that can help the Network administrator to troubleshoot.
Under switch detail page > you can easily see the “Diag Tools” icon
Under Manage > Switches > Diag
So the Full-screen tools are displayed, So you can use them.
The Switch diag tool is required SW firmware V1.2.60 and above except for Packet capture is V1.2.61 and above.
Overall port status view - It’s a good way to let users see all ports throughput at a glance
The bar indicates the throughput of the port and the color of the bar indicates the speed of the port.
CRC error
This is an important indication to see if anything is wrong with the transmission including the cable issues. The red square indicates there are CRC errors found. Users can mouse over to the port and see more details of throughput and CRC error count.
This is the real-time client list of the Switch or the content of the forwarding table. Users can refresh the table by clicking the refresh button
Cable diag helps to check the Cable status of selected ports. (It can be multiple selections) and will show the possible distance of breaking points.
In order to send packets on LAN, network devices need to know the IP and MAC address of the hosts they intend to communicate with. Address Resolution Protocol provides the mechanism to determine the MAC address associated with an IP address. These IP to MAC bindings are stored in each switch's ARP cache.
The packet capture utility can be used to observe live network traffic passed by EnGenius Switches. Since captures provide a live snapshot of traffic on the network, they can be immensely helpful in diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues. This article outlines how to remotely take a packet capture in Diag tools.
Choose ports to capture packets > input Duration in sec > click on “Capture”, then the Switch will collect the packets and download them with the .pcap file
2. Download Wireshark or other packet analysis tools to open up the .pcap file
Link aggregation groups multiple ports together in parallel to act as a single logical link. Aggregation-enabled devices treat all physical links (ports) in an aggregation group entirely as a single logical link (port). Member ports in an aggregation group share egress/ingress traffic load, delivering a bandwidth that is multiple of a single physical link. The feature is available is at Manage > Switch < Details > Link Aggregation
To Configure trunk , you must select aggregation type . Select from the following options:
LACP: LACP is a dynamic protocol which helps to automate the configuration and maintenance of LAG’s. The main purpose of LACP is to automatically configure individual links to an aggregate bundle, while adding new links and helping to recover from link failures if the need arises. LACP can monitor to verify if all the links are connected to the authorized group. LACP is a standard in computer networking, hence LACP should be enabled on the Switch's trunk ports initially in order for both the participating Switches/devices that support the standard to use it.
Static: Static configuration is used when connecting to a switch that doesn't support LACP.
Disable : Disable the trunk that you configured previously.
Then select the Member Ports to add into the trunk group. There are two ways to select the ports
Click on the port picker to select multiple ports.
2. Click Pencil icon to input port numbers
After you complete the trunk settings , remember to click Apply to take effect .
This allows you to view and configure PoE schedules that can be applied to the ports. Below screens display the existing schedules visually. Click Manage > Switch lists > detail > PoE scheduling to access this screen
Select the ports to be set the PoE scheduling then click Edit
2. Enable scheduling and then customize the PoE on or Off by dragging the bar. This behavior is the same when you configure the SSID scheduling.
3. If you want to do the PoE reset, you can simply click PoE rest and then drag the icon to the specific time.
4. Click Apply.