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VLANS for AP's and Switches

rkowals — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 07:19:51 GMT

We are installing new Aerohive switches in place of our old Cisco switches, we currently have a few dozen Aerohive AP's that are running on native VLAN 1. Our Cisco has VLAN 2 for phones and VLAN3 for Data. Do I need to completely change the VLANs for all the Aerohive Devices (AP/Switch) and start from scratch?

Re: VLANS for AP's and Switches

samantha_lynn — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:37:47 GMT

You can host multiple VLANs on Aerohive switches by setting the port types to trunk ports in the device template. We also have a phone & data port type available for our switches as well. You can find the device templates by going to Configure> Opening the Network Policy> Moving to the Device Templates tab within the Network Policy> Opening the Switch Templates tab. Is that what you were looking for?

Re: VLANS for AP's and Switches

bruce_stahlin — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 04:18:56 GMT

We've been replacing our Cisco access switches over the last several years. There's no need to redesign your network unless you would like to. You want to setup you uplink/downlink ports, including those for APs, as trunk ports. You can also configure Etherchannel or LACP for these links. Per Sam's recommendation, configure your station ports as phone/data ports and set the VLANs accordingly.

As best practice, I would recommend not using VLAN 1 for L3 traffic. For further reasons, see http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=2181837&seqNum=11

Re: VLANS for AP's and Switches

rkowals — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 05:36:52 GMT

I have created the default templates for the SR2348, SR2324, SR2208, Our core switch is still a Cisco unit, all others will be Aerohive. So under Configure ports, is there a way of changing the VLANS all at once, VLAN 2 for voice and VLAN 3 for data?

Re: VLANS for AP's and Switches

bruce_stahlin — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 06:07:51 GMT

In the Device Template, select the ports you want changed (click and drag), click the "Assign" button, "Create New," name the port type, Under Port Usage, select "Phone with a data port." Scroll down to the VLAN Object, assign the VLANs and save the port type. Save the template.

Personally, we create a template for each switch to make sure each port configuration is correct. Probably not necessary as you can adjust port types from the "Monitor," "Device" screens.

Do you need assistance with the Cisco side? Which model & iOS. L3 or L2 only?

Re: VLANS for AP's and Switches

rkowals — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 02:38:21 GMT

Cisco Catalyst 4500, L3, ios12.2. I still need to work on the template, I found some info off the switch I needed, I'm not a Network Tech, mainly a server support. Just got elevated recently.

Re: VLANS for AP's and Switches

rkowals — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 03:44:13 GMT

Another issue has risen, any time I update the switch it fails at 30% error on switch CLI shows "Mounting SQUASHFS error: Xattrs in filesystem, these will be ignore

websrc.sqfs onto SQAUSHFS error: unable to read xattr id index table /mnt/www/htdocs...done

Re: VLANS for AP's and Switches

bruce_stahlin — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 05:01:17 GMT

On the Cat, you need to create the plans in the vlan database (Layer 2):

conf t

vlan 2

name voice

vlan 3

name data

Then you will create the layer three interfaces:

interface vlan 2

description voice

ip address x.x.x.x y.y.y.y (address and subnet mask)

interface vlan 3

description data

ip address x.x.x.x y.y.y.y (address and subnet mask)

If you dhcp servers are on a different vlan, be sure to add an ip helper for dhcp relay (not necessary for VLANs that have a local dhcp server):

interface vlan 2

ip helper-address x.x.x.x

The error you're receiving sounds like the switch may be losing capwap during the push. Can you console in and watch the following as you push:

show network

show hivemanager status