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switch - Dell Powerconnect 5524 SNMPv3 Monitoring with LibreNMS

switch - Dell Powerconnect 5524 SNMPv3 Monitoring with LibreNMS

Let's setup monitoring to our switch and instead of the less secure versions of SNMP we will use SNMPv3 that offers two levels of security ( Authentication and Encryption ). 1) Global Parameters We need to set the EngineID that has to be unique to each device in the administrative

switch - Dell Powerconnect 5524 Hardening Security

switch - Dell Powerconnect 5524 Hardening Security

Let's harden the security of our switch enabling SSH access only and making sure that the web server runs over HTTPS. 1) Enabling SSH Key Authentication First, the SSH server has to be enabled. ip ssh server console(config)# do sh ip ssh SSH Server enabled. Port: 22

Switch - Dell Powerconnect 5524 How to Create a Trunk Port

Switch - Dell Powerconnect 5524 How to Create a Trunk Port

The deployment of the my new pfSense + switch started and the first step is to stablish a trunk port between our firewall and the switch. Let's start creating a trunk port in our firewall. 1) pfSense Trunk Port Navigate to Interfaces > VLANs and click in add. Interfaces

Switch - Dell PowerConnect 5524 Initial Setup

Switch - Dell PowerConnect 5524 Initial Setup

This article will guide us on how to quickly setup a Dell switch powerconnect 5524. 0) Factory Reset First thing, we will erase all configurations from the device. console# delete startup-config console# reload 1) Enable Password First, let's enable password authentication for elevated privileges console access. console>