Enterasys Networks Matrix E7, 6000 manual Backplane View Bridge Display Form

The Device View

SmartSwitch 6000 chassis: The backplane connections are indexed 1–5, where 1 indicates the connection to first slot in the chassis and 5 indicates the connection to the last slot.

Matrix E7 chassis: The backplane connections are indexed 1–7, where 1 indicates the connection to first slot in the chassis and 7 indicates the connection to the last slot. Second generation boards used in the Matrix E7 show only 5 slots.

NOTE

For Matrix E7 users: Modules for the Matrix E7 (6C107) chassis are third generation (6x3xx) boards. Third generation boards are fully supported in any of the 6C107 chassis’ seven slots. Second generation boards (6x2xx SmartSwitch modules) are fully supported in slots 1-5 in the 6C107 chassis. A second generation board in slot 6 or 7 of the 6C107 will act as a standalone module.

Backplane View Bridge Display Form

When the Backplane View display form is in the default Bridge mode, each connection is represented by a color-coded text field as follows:

FWD (Green)	The interface is on-line and ready to forward packets across the
	SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7 from one module to another.
DIS (Blue)	Bridging at the interface has been disabled by management; no
	traffic can be received or forwarded on this interface, including
	configuration information for the bridged topology.
LIS (Magenta)	The interface is not adding information to the filtering
	database. It is monitoring Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU)
	traffic while preparing to move to the forwarding state.
LRN (Magenta)	The Forwarding database is being created, or the Spanning
	Tree Algorithm is being executed because of a network
	topology change. The interface is monitoring network traffic,
	and learning network addresses.
BLK (Orange)	The interface is on-line, but filtering traffic from going across
	the SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7 from one module to
	another. Bridge topology information will be forwarded by the
	interface.
BRK (Red)	The interface has malfunctioned.

Backplane View Interface Display Form

When the Backplane View is in Interface mode, each connection is represented by a color-coded text field that indicates a combination of the interface’s Administrative status, Operational status, and Link status.

The following status conditions are supported:

UNK (Gray)	NetSight Element Manager cannot determine the backplane
	interface’s Administrative, Operational, or Link status.

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