Dell PowerConnect Switch

Version: Applies to Dell PowerConnect N20XX switch series.

The N2000 switch series offers a power-efficient Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network-access switching solution with integrated 10GbE uplinks. With high-performance capabilities and wire-speed performance, utilizing a non-blocking architecture to easily handle unexpected traffic loads, the switches offer simple management and scalability via an 84Gbps (full duplex) high availability stacking architecture that allows management of up to twelve switches from a single IP address. An integrated 80PLUS-certified power supply and features such as Energy-Efficient Ethernet and short cable detection provide energy efficiency to help decrease power and cooling costs.

Netsurion Data Source Integrations for Dell PowerConnect allows you to monitor the following components:

  • Security – Activities related to port status changes
  • Security – Activities related to user logon behavior
  • Compliance – Activities related to user authentication failure

Once Dell PowerConnect N20XX is configured to deliver Syslog to Netsurion Open XDR Manager; alerts, knowledge objects and reports can be configured into Netsurion Open XDR.

The following are the key Data Source Integration available in Netsurion Open XDR.

Alerts

Type Name Description
Security Dell PowerConnect – Authentication failures This alert is generated when any user authentication failure occurs.

Reports

Type Name Description
Security Dell PowerConnect – Login and logout This report provides information related to all the login and logout activities.
Security Dell PowerConnect – Authentication failures This report provides information related to all the user authentication failures.
Operations Dell PowerConnect – Port status change This report provides information related to all the port status changes.

Documentation

The configuration details are consistent with Netsurion Open XDR 8.x and later, and Dell PowerConnect.

Download Integration Guide for configuration instructions and more information.