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Central Switch Management with DrayTek Routers

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Set up your network in minutes with DrayTek's Central Switch Management which allows you to easily manage and monitor your DrayTek VigorSwitch from your DrayTek router, avoiding the need to log into multiple devices to manage your network.

Central Switch Management allows you to easily apply VLAN configuration and other port settings. Set bandwidth rate limits and schedules for individual ports. Log switch events for alert notifications if network problems occur and at a glance see the devices connected on your network.

Overview

Central Switch Management is built into DrayTek Vigor routers, in the Central Management section of the router's web interface.

DrayTek Switch management allows you reduce time taken to set up complex networks, multiple subnets and VLANs, without needing in-depth knowledge of VLAN tagging. The time consuming steps of configuring VLANs for each port is handled by the router instead.

VigorSwitch settings can be provisioned through the router, even remotely. Simply log in to the router's web interface to set up your VigorSwitch switches, using a single standardised interface to apply settings to different switch models.

Router - Central Switch Management

Switch Status	Display an overview of connected VigorSwitches. Switch Hierarchy view gives a visual overview of interconnections between switches, with details available for each port in use (IP address, Shutdown port)
Provisioning	Provision the switch with VLAN tags linking to multiple subnets on the DrayTek Vigor router. Schedule port operation and configure Rate Limits for ports.
Alert and Log	Router sends alerts via email or SMS for important port events such as disconnections. Log switch events and track data usage through the switch.
Maintenance	Manage switch functions remotely through the router's web interface: • Configuration Backup & Restore • Remote Reboot and Factory Reset

Switch Status

Switch Hierarchy

Central Switch Management with a DrayTek router determines the network layout of all connected VigorSwitches and their port usage, giving an instant overview of which ports are active on each switch and how they are connected to each other and the router:

A Green Circle indicates a port that's currently active and in use, with the arrows indicating which ports are used for uplink & downlink between switches.

Click on a port to view details of what's connected to that port, with the option to shut down or enable the port.

Switch Status

Add a new VigorSwitch to the router's Central Switch Management from the Switch Status screen, which shows the current status of connected switches:

Detailed Switch Information

Detailed Switch Information lists the connected switches, click on a switch to drill down in to the details for a single switch:

Switch Status
Switch Port Status
- Like the Switch Hierarchy, this displays which ports are in use and which are disconnected or disabled
Port Status
- List the switch ports with all important settings collected into one place
- IP & MAC address of device currently connected to that port
- VLAN configuration with tag value and VLAN mode
- PoE status and power consumption
- Port & PoE Enable/Disable option
- Schedule status

Connect USB Storage to the router for these additional features:

Switch Traffic
- View logs of traffic usage per switch, with graphs of Received and Transmitted data per day or over the week
Switch Connectivity & Alerts
- Display a graph of the switch uptime and Daily or Weekly Alerts for connectivity and port events
- List the times of connection issues
- List events recorded by the Central Switch Management - Alert & Log system

Provisioning

Provisioning VLAN Configuration

Easily set up VLANs on a connected VigorSwitch with a Switch Management profile for that switch, with a standardised interface for VLAN configuration in Central Switch Management. Central Switch Management displays only the VLANs that are in use on the router that's managing the switch, automatically populating the list of VLANs and VLAN tags.

Tick the VLAN tickbox for each port to add it in to a VLAN and select which VLAN it defaults to with the Remove TAG (PVID) selection..

To provision the switch, just click Send to Device and the router will apply the new VLAN configuration:

Configure Port Schedules & Rate Limits

Central Switch Management provides an easier way to quickly configure all of your connected VigorSwitches, with a standardised interface to control settings on all DrayTek VigorSwitch models. The port settings for each port, such as Rate Limits and operating schedules can be set from the Port section of the VigorSwitch's management profile:

Description	Set a name to identify each port easily
Port Control	Manually enable or disable the port, or set it to operate on a schedule
Schedule	Set a schedule on the router and apply it here to have the switch enable/disable the port on a schedule, or enable/disable the PoE to that port (PoE models only)
Rate Limit	Specify the Ingress (Tx) and Egress (Rx) rates for each port

Copy Configuration between Switches

Switch Management profiles created on the router can be applied to other switches, copying VLAN and port settings between dis-similar switches and automatically translating the configuration to work between different switch models:

Alerts & Logs

Alerts and Logs with Central Switch Management

The DrayTek Vigor router managing a group of switches with Central Switch Management can perform more detailed monitoring with USB storage (not supplied) connected.

This allows the router to monitor the status of connected switches and their ports, as well as tracking the overall data usage of each connected switch.

Alerts

The Alerts system in Central Switch Management provides a highly configurable system for the managing router to monitor port events and general switch connectivity.

It can be configured to simply log events in a searchable database or send email / SMS alerts depending on the severity of the fault. Each port and different switch events can be configured with different alert & log severity levels.

Configure up to 8 different Alert levels to:

Log the event
Send Mail Alerts (up to 4 recipients per event)
Send SMS alerts (up to 4 recipients per event)

These link with the router's SMS and Email alerts system, with up to 10 different email recipient addresses and 10 SMS recipient numbers.

Each port can be set with its own severity level for different port events.

For instance, a Network Video Recorder (NVR) system disconnecting would generate a "Major Alert" while an access point disconnecting could generate a "Moderate Alert".

With the multiple Alert levels, it's possible to configure different alerts to send to different recipients, so that the correct people are notified if a disconnection occurs.

Logs

View logs for each VigorSwitch in the logs section.

Select the types of Alerts/Logs and which switches to view the logs for and the Vigor router will display the dates and times of recorded events, within the last 24 hours or the last week.

This records and displays each event with this information:

Date & Time of event
Severity
Type of Alert
Switch Name
Which Port triggered the Alert
Event Details

DrayTek products with Central Switch Management

DrayTek Vigor Routers	DrayTek VigorSwitch
DrayTek Vigor 2862	VigorSwitch G1080
DrayTek Vigor 2926	VigorSwitch G1280
DrayTek Vigor 2860	VigorSwitch G2280
DrayTek Vigor 2925	VigorSwitch G2280x (Router F/W 3.9.1)
DrayTek Vigor 2952	VigorSwitch G2500 (Router F/W 3.9.0)
DrayTek Vigor 3220	VigorSwitch P1092
DrayTek Vigor 2960	VigorSwitch P1280
DrayTek Vigor 3900	VigorSwitch P2280
DrayTek Vigor 3910	VigorSwitch P2280x (Router F/W 3.9.1)
	VigorSwitch P2500 (Router F/W 3.9.0)
	VigorSwitch P2261
	VigorSwitch G2260

Note that older router firmware might not recognise newer switches, check the Router Web UI for the switch compatibility list of which switches the router firmware supports.

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Overview

Switch Status

Provisioning

Alert and Log

Maintenance

DrayTek products with Central Switch Management