With the Sophos Switch Series, we’re introducing a new range of network access layer switch models. Our cloud-managed switches can be managed in Sophos Central or as standalone switches, providing extensive features to simplify network configuration and monitoring at prices affordable to small and medium-sized businesses. With advanced management, Sophos switches optimize network performance to allow companies to focus on growing their business.
The initial release includes eight different switch models with various port configurations and models with and without Power over Ethernet (PoE). We offer two series within our model line-up: the 100 Series models have 1GE ports and either SFP or SFP+ and the 200 Series models offer 2.5GE ports plus SFP+ (24- and 48-port models in the 200 Series are expected towards mid-2022). The entry-level CS101-8/8FP desktop models are targeted for home/small businesses while the 24- and 48-port models in the 100 series and the 8-port CS210-8FP are targeted for medium-sized businesses with better performance.
Web-based Switch Management (Switch local GUI):
All supported switch features can be locally managed from the very first release by using the switch web GUI. This gives all the flexibility of the standalone configuration of the switch.
For a detailed switch feature list, please refer to the Switch User Manual
Cloud management in Sophos Central:
Sophos Central provides the option to manage multiple switches and sites. By adding a number of switches to a single site, you can push the configuration to all the switches at that site at the same time. Admins can create multiple sites in Sophos Central and add different switch configurations for a specific site where all switches can be grouped.
In the first release, Sophos Central provides VLAN and port management options for a site or switch. Admins can manage the switch configuration for a Sophos Central registered switch along with firmware management and some basic remote switch management features for a specific switch.
Site management – Create a site, add different VLAN and port configuration settings to it and group the different switches that belong to that site. An admin can also choose to configure all switches at once by pushing the site configuration to them.
Firmware management – Sophos Central allows admins to schedule a firmware upgrade for a switch at a specific time or swap the firmware, which allows the user to select the backup firmware partition by clicking on the switch firmware version.
VLAN management - Configure (create/update/delete) VLANs in Sophos Central and assign them to the necessary switch ports directly from Sophos Central. Port management – Map VLANs to specific switch ports and enable/disable specific ports or change the port speed of the switch.
Status and Alerts – On the switch inventory page, you can monitor the switch status (registered, disconnected, waiting for synchronization, synchronized, firmware too old and task pending ). Whenever there is config push failure or a switch is disconnected from Sophos Central, an alert will display the respective message.
Diagnostics – Turn on the remote debugging option whenever you need the Sophos support team assistance to troubleshoot switch-related issues. This feature allows the support team to collect switch-related logs.
Limitation: The current GA release offers limited switch feature management from Sophos Central (VLAN, port settings, firmware management and remote device control ). Further, more advanced switch features will be added in later software releases.
Issue Key
Summary
NSW-1056
LOCAL UI: "show current running-config" shows the port as "SHUTDOWN" even when it is up.
NSW-803
LOCAL UI: MAC address learning per port limitation is not working
NSW-1344
LOCAL UI: The device UI only shows the uplink indicator for standalone ports, it does not show it if the ports are part of a LAG
NSW-810
LOCAL UI : User should specify the encryption mode for SSH access, SSH admin@<ip> -c <mode> [supported modes 3des-cbc, aes128-cbc, aes256-cbc]
NSW-1058
LOCAL UI: Unable to configure special characters in SNMP password
NSW-895
LOCAL UI: Only a maximum of 256 VLANs can be configured
NSW-1000
LOCAL UI: Users cannot add VLAN names with special characters
NSW-1137
LOCAL UI: SFP ports should not show 10M or 100M half-duplex mode
NSW-1105
LOCAL UI: No warning message while moving to a different page with unsaved config
NSW-1086
LOCAL UI: Non-PoE switch port GRID will show PoE ports label and power usage percentage
NSW-1182
LOCAL UI: Uplink tick is not displayed when the gateway’s MAC address expires from the ARP cache
NSW-1219
Cloud UI: Switch alerts count in summary page is limited to max 100, even though real alerts are more.
NSW-1301
Cloud UI Diagnostics: Switch Web UI redirect links are not navigating to specific Local web UI page
NSW-1351
Cloud UI: Locally configured VLANs will not be synced to Sophos Central
NSW-1172
Cloud UI: VLAN push from Sophos Central removes locally configured VLAN (it also removes LAG if configured on the same VLAN)
NSW-814
STP: BPDUs from the uplink bridge is not forwarded when STP is disabled.
NSW-1181
POE: Port MGMT: CLOUD UI uplink port identification is not updated in some cases
NHD-1811
POE: CS110-48FP Long GUI refresh time to configure - Power Supply sub menu
NSW-1428
POE: CS210-8FP Sometimes PoE does not auto recover after an overload condition
Sophos support access can be activated for switches which are registered and connected to Sophos Central only. For switches not registered in Sophos Central, troubleshooting/debugging will be limited.
thanks for sharing. Its informative.
way over priced for what they offer.
do these switches support stacking? - Thanks
Thanks for Sharing....!!!
Hi Stefan, can you please help with the Switch Model and basic setup / configuration details?