Dell PowerConnect M6348 Configuration Manual

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Switching Configuration 51ch16 0 0 0ch17 0 0 0--More-- or (q)uitPort AggregatorThe Port Aggregator feature minimizes the administration required for managing the blade-centricswitch blades. This feature provides administrators the ability to map internal ports to external portswithout having to know anything about STP, VLANs, Link Aggregation or other L2/L3 protocols.The Port Aggregator feature is only available when the switch is operating in Simple mode, which isdisabled by default. From the Dell CLI Setup Wizard, you can select the operational mode as "Simplemode" or "Normal mode". In addition, users with privilege level 15 can change the mode via theCLI/Web/SNMP user interfaces.A Trap identified by "operationalModeChangeTrap" is issued when the SNMP user changes the operational mode.OverviewPort Aggregator is simple to configure. If internal port(s) are mapped to multiple external ports forbandwidth/high availability, these external ports will automatically be configured as an LACP trunkgroup (if the Aggregator Group is configured to enable LACP automatically). All connectivity mapping isdone through a simplified user interface.Port Aggregator is completely interoperable. Dynamic (via LACP) and static LAGs are supported.Figure 3-4 illustrates the default condition on a standalone PowerConnect M6220 with Port Aggregatorenabled.