Any decent training for Procurve switches?

discount81

I'm at a new job and all the switches are procurve, I am somewhat familiar with but need some more in depth training.

I can't find any books, aside from the very dry manuals, or video training on these

Does anyone know of any?

devils_haircut

I looked into getting HP certified since my company uses HP for a lot of places (they give steep discounts to public schools + lifetime warranty). There doesn't seem to be much out there. I remember finding one (yes, ONE) textbook on Amazon that covers their associate-level network certification, but I can't remember where it was now.

Honestly, besides lacking some of the features of most enterprise switches, they are very, very similar to Cisco in command syntax. The only big difference is VLANs: "tagged" on the uplinks/trunks, "untagged" on the access ports, "no untagged" for VLAN 1. I've also heard bad things about their STP implementation, which kinda sucks, so we don't use it. One of our engineers said it has a tendency to disable random ports, but I haven't seen that in action myself. It's also possible that a firmware upgrade has taken care of that issue, but I wouldn't know.

I think you can get access to study material through the HP ExpertOne portal, but I'm not sure.

Deathmage

someone actually sent me a document on here a while back on the difference between Cisco and HP commands, if you know Cisco CLi.

I know HP procurves pretty darn well, used them explicitly at my last job and the CLi is pretty simple once you get past the tagged, untagged, no untagged terminology.

Here is some notes I took of the HP Procurves of the commands I've used, maybe it will help you, copied directly from an excel spreadsheet.

The rest if you know how to use a switch are pretty straight forward, the hardest thing is just getting used to HP's CLi commands.



show config
shows the current config









config t
elevates the switch to a level where changes can be applied









hostname
changes the name of the switch









ip default-gateway 192.168.104.19
this sets the default-gw of the switch









ip routing
this turn on "ip routing"









int vlan 1
this intializes the vlan config level









ip address 192.168.100.200 255.255.255.0
ip address of the vlan









ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.100.1
route of last resort for the entire router









snmp-server community "public" unrestricted












wr mem
write the changes on the switch made in the config to memory









show config












no ip routing
turns off routing










show running-config
show the config that is running in the the switch after the saved changes.









spanning-tree
enables spanning tree on the switch to prevent collisions from happening.









logging 192.168.100.1
enables logging of the switch.









interface 48
allows you to configure the behavior of a port.









no power-over-ethernet












Speed-duplex ?
command to list speed duplex on port, allows to change a port a specific speed - useful for T1 Adtrans and Timeclocks that can only operate at 10baseT


"no"
placing "no" in-front of a command disables the function/command.



































interface ethernet 19 disable
disables port 19.










enable
allows you to login after placing a password on switch









reload
allows you to reboot the switch.









password manager
sets a enable password for switch












Tagged --- Uplink


untagged --- Used on the vlan


no untagged --- not used on this vlan




Here is a basic used of the untagged, tagged terminology:




vlan 6


name "Wireless"


untagged 1-2


no untagged 3-48



tagged A1-A2


ip address 192.168.5.7 255.255.255.0


exit