Allied Telesis AT-2931SX - Manual

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 7 Safety Symbols Used in this Document This document uses the safety symbols defined in Table 1. Table 1. Safety Symbols Symbol Meaning Description Caution Performing or omitting a specific action may result in equipment damage or loss of...

Preface 8 Where to Find Web-based Guides The installation and user guides for all Allied Telesyn products are available in portable document format (PDF) on our web site at www.alliedtelesyn.com . You can view the documents online or download them onto a local workstation or server.

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 9 Contacting Allied Telesyn This section provides Allied Telesyn contact information for technical support as well as sales and corporate information. Online Support You can request technical support online by accessing the Allied Telesyn...

10 Chapter 1 Advanced Server Program Overview This chapter provides an introduction to the Allied Telesyn Advanced Server Program. It provides the following sections: ˆ “AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Server Program (BASP) Overview” on page 11 ˆ “AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Feature...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 13 AT-2931SX BASP for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 The following options are supported under Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. For additional information, see Chapter 3, “Installing BACS on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Systems” on page 44....

15 Chapter 2 AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications This chapter describes the AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications. It contains the following sections: ˆ “Overview” on page 16 ˆ “Installing the AT-2931SX BACS Application” on page 18 ˆ “Updating the AT...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 16 Overview The AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) application is an integrated application (with a graphical user interface) that provides useful information about each network adapter that is installed in your c...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 17 Information Provided by the BACS Applications The AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite lists all of the network adapters in your computer and provides the following information, if available, about each device. See Table 2. BACS F...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 18 Installing the AT-2931SX BACS Application The AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) software can be installed through the GUI or by using the silent install option. See the following procedures: ˆ “Installing with...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 19 Note The Microsoft SNMP Service must be running for the SNMP Service application to function properly. 5. Follow the on-screen instructions. You can start the Control Suite from the Control Panel by double-clicking Broadcom Control Sui...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 20 Updating the AT-2931SX BACS Application To update the AT-2931SX BACS application on your computer, perform the following procedure. Note Before you begin the update, close all applications, windows, and dialog boxes. 1. Doub...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 21 Removing the AT-2931SX BACS Application To remove the AT-2931SX BACS application from your computer, perform the following procedure. 1. In Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs . 2. Click Broadcom Management Programs and cli...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 22 Initializing the AT-2931SX BACS Application To initialize the AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) application on your computer, perform the following procedure. 1. In Control Panel, double-click Broadcom Control...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 23 Configuring the AT-2931SX BACS Application Start the AT-2931SX BACS application and then click the tab on Broadcom Advanced Control Suite that provides the information of interest or access to the tests, diagnostics, analyses, and conf...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 26 Resources This section describes the Resources Tab. See Figure 3. Figure 3. Resources Tab The Resources Tab contains the following fields: ˆ Bus Type. Indicates the PCI bus type (PCI or PCI-X). ˆ Slot No . Indicates the PCI ...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 27 ˆ Memory Address . The memory mapped address that is assigned to the device. This value can never be 0. Hardware This section provides a description of the Hardware Tab. See Figure 4. Figure 4. Hardware Tab The Hardware Tab contains th...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 28 Network Test From the Network Test Tab, you can verify IP network connectivity. This test verifies if the driver is installed correctly and tests connectivity to a gateway or other specified IP address on the same subnet. Th...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 30 ˆ Interrupt . This test verifies that the NDIS driver is able to receive interrupts from the device. ˆ Loopback MAC . This test verifies that the Network Device Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver is able to send pa...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 31 General Statistics Definitions of the general statistics parameters are provided below. ˆ Frames Tx OK . A count of frames that are successfully transmitted. This counter is incremented when the transmit status is reported as Transmit ...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 32 counter is incremented when the result of a transmission is reported as Transmit OK and the attempt value is 2. ˆ Frames Tx with more than one Collision . A count of frames that are involved in more than one collision and ar...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 33 ˆ MAC Rx w/ Pause Command and Length greater than 0 . MAC control frames with the pause command and a length greater than 0. ˆ MAC Rx w/ no Pause Command . MAC control frames with no pause command. ˆ MAC Sent X-on . MAC Transmit with X...

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications 36 Creating a Team To create a team, perform the following procedure. 1. From the Tools menu, click Create a Team as shown in Figure 10. Figure 10. Advanced Control Suite 2 Menu 2. Type a team name in the Enter a name you will ...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 39 Note The maximum number of members in a team is 8. Note When team configuration has been correctly performed, a Virtual Team adapter driver is created for each configured team. Note If you disable a virtual team and later want to reena...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 41 Viewing the Team Properties and Statistics To view the team properties and statistics, perform the following procedure. 1. Click the name of the newly created team. The Team Properties Tab is selected by default. 2. Click the Statistic...

44 Chapter 3 Installing BACS on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Systems This chapter provides procedures for installing the AT-2931SX BACS application and configuring teaming on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 systems. It contains the following sections: ˆ “Installing the AT-2931SX BASP” on page 45 ˆ “U...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 45 Installing the AT-2931SX BASP For BASP installation procedures, refer to Chapter 2, “AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications” on page 15.

Chapter 3: Installing BACS on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Systems 46 Uninstalling the AT-2931SX BASP To uninstall the AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Server Program Driver Properties (BASP), perform the following procedure: 1. Open the Control Panel 2. Double-click the Add or Remove Programs button. 3...

47 Chapter 4 Installing BACS on a Linux System This chapter describes the installation and configuration of the BASP driver on Linux. It includes the following section: ˆ “BASP Driver for Linux” on page 48 ˆ “Packaging” on page 49 ˆ “Installing BASP” on page 50 ˆ “Installing the BASP Source RPM Pack...

Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System 48 BASP Driver for Linux On newer Distributions and Kernels, it may be necessary to remove the BASP Driver for Linux BASP is a kernel module designed for 2.4.x kernels that provides load-balancing, fault-tolerance, and VLAN features. These features are pr...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 49 Packaging BASP is released in two packaging formats: source RPM and compressed tar formats. The file names for the two packages are basplnx-<version>.src.<arch>.rpm and basplnx-<version>.<arch>.tgz. Identical so...

Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System 50 Installing BASP BASP for Linux is shipped in mixed forms, where the platform and kernel specific files are in source code and the core file is in object form. Three packages are shipped in this release: two tar archives and two RPM packages. basplnx-{v...

Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System 52 Installing the AT-2931SX BASP TAR Archive Use the procedures in this section to install Linux i386 distributions that are neither Red Hat nor United Linux distributions. Installing the AT-2931SX BASP TAR archive involves both uncompressing the archive ...

Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System 58 AT-2931SX BASP Configuration Scripts for Red Hat Distributions Both team-sample and team-gec are configuration scripts that follow the same syntax. See Table 6. Note Teaming scripts are intended for Red Hat and United Linux-based distributions ONLY. Us...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 59 Broadcom NICE Patches Also included in this release are network device drivers patched with Broadcom NICE support. These drivers are originally taken from the Linux 2.4.16 kernel distribution. To install patched drivers, perform the fo...

Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System 60 Uninstalling the RPM Package To uninstall a RPM package, perform the following procedure. % rpm -e basplnx and to reboot the system, % reboot

Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System 62 AT-2931SX BASP SNMP Agent for Linux This SNMP agent is designed to support the configuration and statistics information pertaining to the AT-2931SX BASP driver. The AT-2931SX BASP SNMP agent is available in two packaging formats: TAR archive and RPM. B...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 63 7. The snmpget and snmpgetnext commands can be used to receive the AT-2931SX BASP snmp objects such as: % snmpget localhost public BASP-Config-MIB::btTeamNumber% snmpgetnext localhost public BASP-Config-MIB::btTeamNumber AT-2931SX BASP...

Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System 64 Uninstalling the RPM Package (Both Source and Binary) To uninstall RPM package, run: % rpm -e baspsnmp-{version}.i386.rpm and to reboot the system, % reboot Known Problems The 802.3ad team member links disconnect and reconnect continuously when connect...

65 Chapter 5 Key Protocols and Interfaces This chapter describes the key protocols and interfaces. It contains the following sections: ˆ “Adapter Teaming” on page 66 ˆ “Failover Teaming” on page 68 ˆ “VLANs Overview” on page 69

Chapter 5: Key Protocols and Interfaces 66 Adapter Teaming Teaming provides traffic load balancing and redundant adapter operation in the event that a network connection fails. When multiple AT-2931SX adapters are installed in the same server, they can be grouped into teams. Each team can be configu...

Chapter 5: Key Protocols and Interfaces 68 Failover Teaming Failover Teaming provides a redundant adapter operation in the event that a network connection fails. When multiple Gigabit Ethernet Adapters are installed in the same server, they can be paired into teams. Each team must have at least one ...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 69 VLANs Overview VLANs allow you to split your physical LAN into logical subparts, to create logical segmentation of workgroups, and to enforce security policies among each logical segment. Each defined VLAN behaves as its own separate n...

Chapter 5: Key Protocols and Interfaces 72 32-bit or 64-bit PCI Bus Master Compliant with PCI Local Bus Rev 2.2, the PCI interface on the Gigabit Ethernet Adapter is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit PCI buses. As a bus master, the adapter requests access to the PCI bus, instead of waiting to b...

73 Chapter 6 Troubleshooting This chapter describes troubleshooting procedures. It contains the following sections: ˆ “Verifying the Correct Drivers are Loaded” on page 74 ˆ “Software Problems and Solutions” on page 76

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting 74 Verifying the Correct Drivers are Loaded The following section describes how to check if the correct drivers are loaded for Windows and Linux. Windows The AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite, Vital Sign screen allows you to view vital adapter information, network ...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 75 Linux To verify that the Linux Driver software is loaded correctly, perform the following procedure. 1. To verify that the AT-2931SX bcm5700.o driver is loaded properly, run: lsmod If the driver is loaded, a line similar to the one bel...

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting 76 Software Problems and Solutions This section describes common software problems and solutions. It contains the following subsections: ˆ “Windows 2000” on page 76 ˆ “Linux-BASP” on page 77 ˆ “AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Server Program (BASP)” on page 78 Windows 2000 This...

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting 78 AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Server Program (BASP) This section lists known AT-2931SX BASP problems and solutions that apply to all operating systems. Problem : 802.3ad team member links disconnect and reconnect continuously. Solution : This is a 3rd party issue. It is s...

79 Chapter 7 Manageability Features This chapter describes the magageability features. It contains the following sections: ˆ “CIM” on page 80 ˆ “SNMP” on page 81

Chapter 7: Manageability Features 80 CIM The Common Information Model (CIM) is an industry standard defined by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Microsoft implements CIM on Windows platforms such as Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 systems. Allied Telesyn supports CIM on the Windows ...

Advanced Control Suite for the AT-2931SX Adapter User’s Guide 81 SNMP There are two SNMP agents for manageability: ˆ BASP Sub-agent ˆ BASP Extensible-agent See the following sections. BASP Sub-agent The BASP sub-agent, baspmgnt.dll, is designed for the Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 SNMP servi...

Chapter 7: Manageability Features 82 AT-2931SX BASP Extensible- agent The AT-2931SX Broadcom SNMP extensible-agent, bcmif.dll, is designed for the Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 SNMP service. The software requires that a Windows 2000 SNMP service is installed before installing the extensible-a...