Did you know you could get a very good Cisco switch less than $1000? You can with the Cisco 500 series switches. A rack mountable and stackable managed switch. A Catalyst 2960 can costs around $2400!

Comparable to a Cisco Catalyst 2960 - the next step up from the 500 series - the biggest differences are

- CLI - TextView

- Not quite IOS but the commands are very much the same.

- Marvell silicon

- Not the Cisco manufactured silicon.

For a little and medium trade, the Cisco 500 Series switches are extraordinary. It's a stackable up to 8 switches and is competent of doing 10 Gigabit. Those are highlights required for a developing SMB. But in this post I will be centering on getting it up and running.

To urge the Cisco SMB 500 switch online, you'll either start designing the gadget through a serial support cable or permit the switch to secure a DHCP address. I'll begin the setup at the command line. To begin with thing to take note is, the switch doesn't utilize IOS. It employments a really comparative command line called TextView. The commands are nearly indistinguishable, perhaps indeed the same. The default username and watchword of the Cisco 500 switch is cisco / cisco.

Any other setting is separated off on the cleared out route. As you'll be able see, this SMB switch packs a lot of highlights. The same highlights you'd see on the Catalyst line of switches. After you do make a change, it isn't spared naturally. At the best right of the screen you'll see a flickering ruddy X another to the Spare content. Be beyond any doubt to continuously spare your configuration. The Framework Outline gives us a tall level diagram of the switch. A few of the important items are the stack mode and framework operational mode. By default, the Cisco 500 begins in Layer 2 (L2) mode. You have got your uptime, administrations enabled/disabled, firmware form, and PoE consumption.

There's moreover a pleasant graphical interface of your switch (or switches) with their dynamic ports. One of the leading highlights is the capabilities to stack up to 8 switches. The realistic will show the stack in arrange as Units and will tell you which switch is the Master. You may have taken note the GUI is utilizing standard harbour 80 to oversee the switch. Let's empower secure management by empowering HTTPS and SSH. Within the cleared out Route, extend Security and tap on TCP/UDP Administrations. Empower HTTPS.

In case you would like to adjust the Administration interface you'll do so by extending Organization, extend Administration Interface, and tap on IPv4 Interface.

Alter the Administration VLAN, IP address sort, and portal. The press on Apply.

 

System Mode and Stack Management is an vital region to require note of. Depending on how you configured the stacking cables you may see what kind of stack topology is being utilized. The stack master will too be distinguished - which is additionally identified as a green LED on the physical switch. If you're having inconvenience designing directing at that point take note of the Framework Mode the switch is as of now running in. You'll need L3 mode on the off chance that you wish routing.

That's an presentation to the Cisco Little Commerce 500 Switch. It packs a part of highlights. I scarcely indeed knew almost the Cisco 500 arrangement switch. At whatever point I required a little switch I continuously obtained the Catalyst 2960. The 500 Little Commerce switch is estimated right for SMBs when a Catalyst 2960 is fair out of the budget run. It offers a part of the same highlights as a Catalyst 2960:

- Stacking

- Power over Ethernet (PoE)

- Quality of Service (QoS)

- Spanning Tree

- IPv6

- ACLs

- Has Layer 3 capabilities

- And more...

In related posts I will see into other nitty gritty setup settings. Be on the post for my visitor post on Cisco's blog.
https://mobileinfoworld.com/getting-started-with-ciscos-500-series-smb-switches/