PortAdmin is a tool for configuring your switch ports by the help of a web interface. It does so by communicating with a network device over SNMP [1].
Currently you can
- Enabled indicates if the interface is enabled (green) or disabled (red)
- Linked indicates if the interface has link (green) or not (red)
Whenever you alter the values on an interface, the color of the row will change. The save button will turn blue to indicate that you can use it to save the changes.
When saving the changes a popup box will tell you what PortAdmin is doing and if everything went well. As this process is best left uninterrupted, the button for closing this popup will not display until everything is done.
Start writing in the text field. The row and save button should change color. Click save to save the changes.
Choose VLAN from the VLAN dropdown and click “Save”. PortAdmin will disable the interface for a few seconds and then enable it again. This is done to indicate to any client connected to the interface that it should try to get a new IP-address.
Click the “Trunk” link. It will take you to the edit trunk interface. Make your changes and click “Save changes”.
Click the VLAN dropdown and choose the “Trunk” option. The edit trunk interface should appear. Set the native VLAN and the tagged VLANs. Click “Save changes”.
Click the trunk link to edit the trunk. Remove all trunk VLANs. Set the native VLAN to what you want the access VLAN to be. Click “Save changes”.
Click one of the “Save all” buttons.
If no column for activating voice VLANs appear, no voice VLANs are configured in PortAdmins config file. This must be done by a NAV administrator.
To activate the voice VLAN, click the checkbox and click “Save”.
Two things can lead to an interface not being editable (no fields or dropdowns appear):
See above.
PortAdmin has a config file. Some of the options that can be set in this file are:
Warning
The term voice VLAN has two meanings in PortAdmin.
Originally, what we meant by “voice VLAN” was a VLAN you, as a network admin, had defined as the VLAN we use for voice traffic. It was not related to the Cisco or HP voice commands.
However, since then, PortAdmin has been extended to also support Cisco Voice
VLANs. This is not the default behavior, but can be enabled in the config file. To
enable this, you have to define voice VLANs in the voice_vlans
directive, and tell
PortAdmin to use Cisco commands by enabling the cisco_voice_vlan
directive.
Footnotes
[1] | Simple Network Management Protocol |