what is the purpose of management vlan?

[sivakondalarao]

Hi,

I wanted to know the purpose of management vlan.

If I don't have management vlan in my network what I will loose?

Regards

SKRAO

[sourabhagarwal]

management vlan is used for in band and out band management of the device.

check out below URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/c2900xl/29_35xu/olhelp/d_mgvlan.htm

http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=358549&rl=1

hope it helps and pls do rate the post.

[amit-singh]

Hi SKRAO,

Management vlan is only used the managed the switches on your network. If you have a layer 2 switch you give the ip to management vlan to manage it remotely. If you dont give any ip to management Vlan, you dont losse out anything. its just that you will not be able to manage the switch remotly. You have to console it in order to troubleshoot it.

-amit singh