Cabletron Systems TRMMIM manual Viewing Device Information

Ring Map

If the inserted station is connected to another hub (via the monitored hub’s Ring-in/Ring-out ports), the board and port are unknown and will display as zeroes (0,0).

The station’s physical drop is an administratively assigned string that you can use to identify a station’s physical location. If assigned, the drop will appear as a subvector in certain Token Ring MAC frames (such as a new active monitor frame, report error frame, or the report station address frame used in the neighbor notification process). A physical drop consists of up to four alphanumeric characters; to set one, see Setting a Station Drop, page 3-9.

Name – This label displays the name administratively assigned to each station, if one has been assigned. To assign one, see Setting a Station Name, page 3-8.

If a station does not have an administratively assigned name, <none> will display in the label.

MAC Address – This is the default label; it displays each station’s six byte MAC address in Canonical format (reverse bit order).

Vendor/MAC Address – This label displays the vendor of the monitored station, as determined by the first three bytes of its MAC address; the remainder of the MAC address is also displayed.

To change the label format of a station:

1.Click on at the top of the Ring Map window.

2.Drag down to Label by, and then right to select a label option: Board, Port, Drop; Name; MAC Address; or Vendor + MAC Address.

The Ring Map window will refresh, and the station labels will reflect the selected display option.

Viewing Device Information

The Device Information window displays the name of the monitored management device and its firmware version. To invoke the Device Information window:

1.Click on at the top of the Ring Map window.

2.Drag down to Device Information, and release. The Device Information window, Figure 3-9, will appear.

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