Nexus 5548 to OOB switch connection

[jrtmouton]

Hi Everyone,

Hope someone can advise me. I am new to using Nexus switches.

I have to connect a Nexus 5548 mgmt 0 port to an out of band switch Cisco 3560.

There will be no trunk from the 3560 to our distribution, instead you have the OOB switch, running to the 5548, and the 5548 has a uplink to a juniper firewall, then from there to our distribution.

Now my question, is the uplink from mgmt 0 to the Cisco 3560 switchport, must it be a trunk port or normal switch port.

Also it's not clear to me, you can't assign a vlan to mgmt 0, and you can't make it a trunk port and make it trunk vlan's.

So how does the communication work between the 2 devices.

I can ping my nexus switch if I configure a trunk between 3560 and distribution, but when I remove the trunk I can't ping the nexus switch anymore.

I think the issue lies at the configuration between mgmt 0 and the 3560 switchport.

Any advice?

Thanks

Reinier

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

No need to trunk the mgmt 0.  All you have to do assign an IP address to it, a default route and connect it to your out of band management switch.  It needs to be a switch port.  It is just like connecting a host to a switch.  The default route needs to be within the mgmt context.

HTH