Management Port Catalyst 9500

[Damon M.]

Hi guys,

Recently we've added a Catalyst 9500 switch in our production network and i wanted to configure remote access to this switch for monitoring and config purposes.

Now, all of our switches are connected to one management switch (Catalyst 2960X) from were we get access to all the switches.

Every switch has a Vlan configured for this (Vlan 13), each with an interface on that vlan and with an IP.

All the ports on the 2960X are configured as :

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1

switchport access vlan 13

switchport mode access

Now, i have been reading into the Ethernet Management port that the 9500 has but i am all confused of how i can and or want to implement this in our current environment.

I configured a static ip on Interface GigabitEthernet0/0

10.32.13.59/24

Also made a static route to the 2960X

ip route vrf Mgmt-intf 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.32.13.2

Now, could you guys help me out?

What am i missing about the Ethernet management port, i'm also not quite sure i understand what out of bound means with those ports. Did i forget or do something wrong with the config?

Thanks in advance!

Greetings

Damon

EDIT : normally i would just connect a cable to one of the other ports, create vlan and add an IP but in this case with this switch (9500) we're occupying all of the ports for use so thats why i would like to use the Management port.

[marce1000]

 - FYI  https://content.cisco.com/chapter.sjs?uri=/searchable/chapter/content/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst9500/software/release/16-8/configuration_guide/int_and_hw/b_168_int_and_hw_9500_cg/b_168_int_and_hw_9500_cg_chapter_01.html.xml

                     Does this help , if not , describe remaining issues encountered.

 M.

[Damon M.]

Thanks for the help but i had already found this documentation but it did not help me to clarify what to do

I've done all that but it cannot make it work somehow.

[balaji.bandi]

If you like to use Manangement port that is the proceedure to follow  and below thread help you :

https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-management/9500-16x-initial-configuration/m-p/4306646

EDIT : normally i would just connect a cable to one of the other ports, create vlan and add an IP but in this case with this switch (9500) we're occupying all of the ports for use so thats why i would like to use the Management port.

yes you can also do the same, any port can be used to manage the device as long as your Manangment VLAN reachable to switch.

[Damon M.]

The weirdest thing EVER just happened to me and i dont want to waste anyone's time. But for 2 day's i was not able to ping that switch.

Now all of a sudden, this works?!

I havent changed any setting, i can ping my 9500 and i have remote access to it. Now i'm not sure what caused that delay.

[balaji.bandi]

Glad and good to hear self resolution. ( healing him self ?)