Management Interface

The management interface can be used to gain remote management access to the switch. The management interface is accessible using the mgmt VRF and is separate from the data plane interfaces, which are in the default VRF.

Alternatively, a loopback interface can be configured to be used as management interface.

Address Mode
Admin State
Mac Address
IPv4 address/subnet-mask
Default gateway IPv4
IPv6 address/prefix
IPv6 link local address/prefix: fe10::96f1:28ff:fe1d:a901/64
Default gateway IPv6
Primary Nameserver
Secondary Nameserver
:
: 10.110.135.51
: 10.110.135.52
: dhcp
: up
: 94:f1:28:1d:a9:01
: 10.93.61.227/21
: 10.93.56.1

Configuration commands

(switch(config)#) Enable the management interface:

interface mgmt
no shutdown

(switch(config)#) Disable the management interface:

interface mgmt
shutdown

(switch(config-if-mgmt)#) Assign an IP address to the interface:

ip <dhcp|static IP-ADDR>

(switch(config)#) Create and configure loopback interface:

interface loopback 0
ip address <IP-ADDR>

Show commands to validate functionality

(switch(config)#)

show interface mgmt
show interface loopback 0

Expected results

  • Administrators can enable/disable the management interface.
  • Administrators can assign an IP address to the management interface
  • Administrators can configure a loopback interface to be use for switch management.

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