I need to setup an LACP port channel with a slightly different config than what I’m able to acheive in the XMS-C platform. Once configured following the guidance here for XMS-C, I need to access the web interface and remove the port members and re-add them with mode set to “Manual” to work properly with our 3rd party switch. Is there a way I can acheive this with XMS-C?
I need the ports to look like the following, set to Manual & Passive
To acheive this natively in the XMS-C platform, I think I need to create a unique profile, just for this switch and under Profile > Configuration > Optimization > Snippet > append the following under “Switch Commands”:
config terminal
interface port-channel 1
switchport mode trunk
mtu 9216
no shut
interface extreme-ethernet 0/3
channel-group 1 mode on
interface extreme-ethernet 0/4
channel-group 1 mode on
exit
exit
copy running-config startup-config
Can someone cofirm the above code snippet is what’s required to set the LACP port channel to Manual to acheive this from XMS-C and it should be set in the profile, as outlined above?
It’s not clear whether I need to include the 2 x exit commands as well as the final “copy running-config startup-config” command
Hi Jon, there is no need to include “config t” to access the global config mode as XMS-Cloud does that for you. The ! takes you back to the global config mode. Also, there is no need to 'copy running-config startup-config" as XMS-Cloud also does that for you to save the switch configuration.
Just to quick update to highlight if anyone is having problems issueing DHCP across your newly created port channel setup via XMS-C CLI Snippet, even if you enable “Port Security Trusted” in the port via the XMS-C GUI, you must have it in the cli snippet in XMS-C to take affect as anything set in the XMS-C GUI is overwritten by the cli snippet.
As DHCP Snooping is enabled by default, you need to specifically set “ip dhcp snooping trust” on the “interface port-channel 1” you’ve created so that DHCP requests can be resolved accordingly across your switches.
Our XMS-C CLI Snippet is now the following:
!
interface port-channel 1
switchport mode trunk
mtu 1500
no shutdown
ip dhcp snooping trust
!
interface extreme-ethernet 0/3
channel-group 1 mode on
!
interface extreme-ethernet 0/4
channel-group 1 mode on
!
Any further changes to the Port Channel must therefore be held within this XMS-C CLI Snippet.
Took a while to realise this as the XMS-C GUI doesn’t reflect what’s set in the CLI Snippet so it got missed initially until you realise in the local switch GUI it isn’t on. We could have statically assigned IP’s which all worked over the link, just not automatic DHCP.
