The Avaya (formerly Nortel) Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) has reached end of life and end of sale. The recommended replacement model is the ERS 5900 series switches. Models ERS 5510-24T ERS 5510-48T ERS 5520-24T ERS 5520-48T ERS 5520-24T-PWR ERS 5520-48T-PWR…
Recently I’ve setup a monitoring tool called Intermapper to monitor the Nortel switches I have at work. The tool polls the SNMP traffic information from the switches, and also picks up some basic error notifications received on it’s ports. On…
In order to backup a Nortel/Avaya ERS 470/5510/5520 configuration file in ascii format to a TFTP server the most straight forward way is to use CLI. SSH into the switch and run the following command: switch> enable Switch# copy running-config…
Here’s the CLI on how to create a management VLAN on a Avaya/Nortel ERS 5510/5520. 1. First create a vlan 10 used for management access: Switch(config)# vlan create 10 name “VLAN-10 MGMT” type port 2. Ensure to add the vlan…
First of all, you CAN NOT do a direct firmware upgrade from v5.1 to v6.3.6. You must apply intermediary updates one at a time. Upgrading a Nortel / Avaya Baystack ERS 5510/5520 firmware from v5.1 to v6.3.6 requires several steps….