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Netvisor ONE Configuration Guide 5.2.1
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Pluribus Netvisor ONE 5.2.1
Legal Notice
EULA
Preface
Audience
Conventions
Document Feedback
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Table of Contents
About the Netvisor ONE CLI
Understanding Important Terms
Entering Commands and Getting Help
Finding Command Options
About Alternate Command Format
Specifying IP Address Netmasks
Specifying Measurement Units
Customizing Show Output Formats
Specifying a Switch or Fabric for Command Scope
Running Commands on a Local Switch
Changing Switch Setup Parameters
Creating Switch Groups
About GREP Support with Netvisor ONE OS
Installing Netvisor ONE & Initial Configuration
Changes to the End User License Agreement EULA
Adding License Keys to Netvisor ONE
Using the Serial Console Port for Initial Configuration
Managing Netvisor ONE Certificates
Enabling Administrative Services
Configuring Administrative Session Timeout
Confirming Connectivity on the Network
Setting the Date and Time
Viewing User Sessions on a Switch
Archiving Log Files Outside the Switch
Displaying and Managing Boot Environment Information
Exporting Configurations Using Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
Upgrading the Netvisor ONE Software
Implementing a Fabric Upgrade
Saving and Restoring Netvisor OS Configurations
Copying and Importing Configuration Files
Autoconfiguration of IPv6 Addresses on the Management Interface Support
Configuring 10/100M Override Using Bel-Fuse SFP-1GBT-05 on F9372-X
Support for Local Loopback IP Addresses
Configuring REST API Access
Running Shell Commands Using REST API
Managing RMAs for Switches
Contacting Technical Assistance
Configuring Switch Ports
Displaying Port Numbering
Displaying Physical Port Layer1 and Layer2 Information
Displaying Port Status
Displaying Port Statistics
Configuring Ports for Different Throughput
Configuring Port Storm Control
Optimizing Port Link Status Detection on Pluribus Switches
Displaying Transceiver Information
Restoring Ports for Cluster Configurations
Limiting the Number of MAC Addresses per Port
Using Port Buffering
Changing Class of Service CoS Behavior
Configuring Minimum and Maximum Bandwidth on Ports
Enabling Jumbo Frame Support
Configuring Layer 2 Features
Understanding the Supported L2 Protocols
Configuring LLDP
Understanding and Configuring VLANs
Configuring Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
Configuring Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
Achieving a Loop-Free Layer 2 Topology
Fast Failover for STP and Cluster
Configuring Auto Recovery of a Disabled Port
Configuring STP Root Guard
Configuring Fabric Guard
About Layer 2 Hardware Hashing
Configuring Layer 3 Features
Understanding the Supported L3 Protocols
Configuring Packet Relay for DHCP Servers
Configuring vRouter Services
Configuring vRouter Interfaces
Configuring MTU Parameters for vRouter Interfaces
Configuring 802.1p-based Prioritization and Marking on Egress Interfaces
Configuring IPv6 for vRouter Loopback Addresses
Displaying FRR Routing and Debug Information for vRouters
Viewing FRR Logs
Configuring Hardware-based Routing
Configuring Hardware Routing for a vRouter
IPv6 Hardware Routing
Layer 3 Table Validation
Displaying Hardware Routes History
Understanding ECMP Path Selection and Load Balancing
About Layer 3 Hardware Hashing
Configuring Static Routes
Adding IPv6 Link-Local Addresses for Static Routing
Configuring Static Null Routing
Configuring Static ARP for Unicast Traffic
Configuring VRF Aware Static ARP
Guidelines and Limitations While Configuring Static ARP
Configuring IPv4 IPv6 NDP and Optimization
Configuring Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Configuring Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Displaying Default Timers for OSPF Configurations
Configuring Route Maps for OSPF Routes
Enabling OSPF SNMP MIBs
Configuring Default Route Information Settings for OSPF Routing
Configuring Metric and Metric Type for Route Maps
Configuring BGP on a vRouter
Enabling BGP SNMP MIBs
Configuring AS and AS Prepending with BGP
Configuring BGP Communities
Configuring BGP Route Maps for Origin
Configuring BGP Graceful shutdown
Configuring BGP Unnumbered
Configuring Prefix Lists for BGP and OSPF
Configuring Bidirectional Forwarding Detection with BGP
Configuring BFD for OSPF Fault Detection
Configuring Optimized BFD Path
Configuring Policy-based Routing
Sending Network Traffic to an ECMP Group with PBR
Configuring Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
Configuring an IGMP Querier IP Address
Configuring Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping per VLAN
Creating MLD Static Sources and Static Groups
Displaying MLD Statistics for a VLAN
Configuring and Administering the Pluribus Fabric
Understanding the Netvisor ONE Adaptive Cloud Fabric
Understanding Fabric Transactions
Understanding Fabric Status Updates, vPorts and Keepalives
Understanding the Different Fabric Deployment Models
Guidelines and Limitations
Creating an Initial Fabric
About the Default Configuration
Displaying Fabric Instances
Adding Switches to an Existing Fabric
Configuring the Fabric Over the Management Interface
Displaying Fabric Nodes
Displaying Fabric Information and Statistics
Configuring Layer 4 Ports for Fabric Communication
Configuring a Fabric Over a Layer 3 Network
Connecting Multiple Fabric Nodes over a Layer 3 Fabric
Troubleshooting the Fabric
Displaying the Transaction History
Keeping Transactions in Sync with Auto-Recovery
Rolling Back and Rolling Forward Transactions
Rolling Back the Configuration of the Fabric
Cluster Transactions Divergence
About the Fabric Default Parameters
Supported Releases
Configuring High Availability
Understanding the High Availability Feature in Netvisor ONE
Understanding Link Aggregation
Understanding the Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Understanding Switch Clusters
About the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) in Cluster Mode
About Split Brain
About Layer 3 Hardware Forwarding in a Cluster
Understanding vLAGs
Understanding Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
About Cluster Active-Active Routing for IPv6 Addresses
Guidelines and Limitations
Configuring Static Trunking for Link Aggregation
Configuring Active-Standby Link Failover on Management Interfaces
Configuring Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Configuring a Cluster
Performing the Cluster Re-peer Process
Configuring a vLAG
Modifying LACP Mode and Parameters on an Existing vLAG Configuration
Configuring the Cluster Slave Switch Bring-up Process
Configuring Active-Active vLAGs: a Step-by-Step Example
Understanding LAG Path Selection and Load Balancing
Understanding the vLAG Forwarding Rule
Configuring Asymmetric Routing over vLAGs
About Symmetric Routing over vLAGs
Configuring Active-Active vLAG Forwarding with Loopback Recirculation
Configuring Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Troubleshooting High Availability
Supported Releases
Related Documentation
Configuring VXLAN
Understanding VXLAN
About VXLAN’s Packet Format and Its Implications
About Pluribus’ VXLAN Implementation and Benefits
About Unicast Fabric VRFs with Anycast Gateway
About IGMP Snooping Support with VXLAN
About Distributed Multicast Forwarding with Fabric VRFs
About Pluribus Open Networking Multi-site Fabric
Guidelines and Limitations
Configuring the VXLAN Underlay Network
Configuring the Overlay: VTEP Interconnections and VNIs
Configuring the VXLAN Loopback Trunk
Checking VXLAN Recirculation’s L2 and L3 Entries
Showing VXLAN Trunk Replication Counters
Displaying ECMP Load Balancing Info for VXLAN
Configuring VTEP Objects with Automatic Fabric Connections
Disabling VXLAN Termination
Configuring Unicast Fabric VRFs with Anycast Gateway
Configuring IGMP Snooping with VXLAN
Configuring Multicast Fabric VRFs
Supported Releases
Related Documentation
Configuring Advanced Layer 2 Transport Services
Understanding Virtual Link Extension
Understanding VXLAN-based Bridge Domains
Configuring Virtual Link Extension
Configuring Virtual Link Extension State Tracking
Configuring Virtual Link Extension Error Transparency
Configuring Virtual Link Extension Redundancy with Clusters
Showing Virtual Link Extension Between Ports on the Same Switch
Configuring Keep-Alive Timeout for Virtual Link Extension
Configuring VXLAN-based BDs for 802.1Q and QinQ Internetworking
Troubleshooting vLE
Guidelines and Limitations
Supported Releases
Related Documentation
Configuring and Using Network Management and Monitoring
Displaying System Statistics on a Switch
Understanding and Configuring Port Mirroring
Configuring Port Mirroring
Configuring Port Mirroring to a Remote Host
Configuring Logging
Sending Log Messages to Syslog Servers
Forwarding Log Files to an External Linux Server
Saving Diagnostic Files and Exporting to an External Server
Using Facility Codes with Log Messages
Displaying Log Counters Information
Viewing Log Events
Exceptions for Audit Logging
Understanding and Configuring SNMP
Overview
Configuring SNMP
Creating SNMP Communities on V1 and V2
Creating SNMP Users on SNMPv3
Modifying the SNMP Engine ID
Configuring Threshold on SNMP Processes
Supported SNMP MIBs
Routing MIBs
Enabling SNMP Traps
Using Additional SNMP commands
Supported SNMP Notifications (Traps)
Additional MIBs Supported in Netvisor ONE
Sample CLI Outputs
Related Documentation
Configuring and Using vFlows
Understanding vFlows and vFlow Objects
Configuring the Administrative Scope and State
Implementing the vFlow Policies
Filtering of Traffic Flows
Configuring vFlows with User Defined Fields (UDFs)
Forwarding Action in vFlow Filtering
Configuring vFlow Filters
Refreshing vFlow Level Statistics for Long-lived Connections
Commands and Parameters in vFlow
Guidelines and Limitations
Use Cases in vFlow
Supporting TCP Parameters using vFlows
Configuring Burst Size in vFlow for Maximum Bandwidth
Configuring Bandwidth Sharing for a Single VLAN
Enhancing vFlow Capoability
Using Application Flows and Statistics
Displaying vFlow Stats for all Switches
Understanding vFlow Statistics
Use Cases for Network Monitoring and Security
Using vFlows to Disable Communication
Configuring vFlows to Filter Packets on Management Interfaces
Configuring vFlow for Analytics
Configuring Network Security
About Port Isolation
Configuring Port Isolation
Creating and Implementing Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Using and Configuring MAC ACLs
Using and Configuring IP ACLs
Support for DHCP Snooping
Support for Router Advertisement (RA) Guard
Configuring Control Plane Traffic Protection (CPTP)
Configuring Port-based Control Plane Traffic Protection
Configuring Advanced Control Plane Traffic Protection
Configuring User-Defined Traffic Classes
Configuring Other Advanced CPTP Settings
Showing and Clearing CPTP Statistics
Use cases for QoS
Configuring DSCP to CoS Mapping
Applying CoS Queue Mapping based on Re-Marked DSCP in vFlow
Configuring and Using Network Telemetry
About sFlow
Guidelines While Configuring sFlow
Configuring the sFlow Collector
Configuring sFlow Agents on the Network
Adding or Removing Additional Ports to sFlow
Using Wireshark to Analyze Packets in Real Time
Analyzing Live Traffic Using Wireshark
Configuring TACACS+
Understanding TACACS+
Configuring TACACS+
Creating User Roles
Exceptions for Audit Logging
Configuring Virtual Networks
Understanding Virtual Networks
Creating a Virtual Network (VNET)
Specifying the Type of VNET Interface
Configuring VNET High Availability (HA)
Related Documentation
Configuring Open Virtual Switch
Configuring OVSDB with Netvisor ONE
Using OpenSSL TLS Certificates for OVSDB and other Services
Open Virtual Switch Database (OVSDB) Error Reporting
Open Source Acknowlegments
About Pluribus Networks
Configuration Guide
Netvisor ONE
Version 5.2.1
June 2020
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