7-8 CHAPTER 7: ADMINISTERING ETHERNET PORTS

Labeling a Port

Top-Level Menu

system

Port labels serve as useful reference points and as an accurate means of identifying your ports for management. You may want to label your Ethernet ports so that you can easily identify the device specifically attached to each port (for example, LAN, workstation, or server).

To label an Ethernet port:

1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:

ethernet fddi bridge ip snmp analyzer script logout

summary detail

label portState

ethernet label

2Enter the port(s) you want to label.

3Enter the label of each Ethernet port.

Port labels can be a maximum of 32 characters in length. The new port label appears the next time you display information for that port.

Setting the Port State

Top-Level Menu

system

You can enable (place online) or disable (place off-line) Ethernet ports. When an Ethernet port is enabled, frames are transmitted normally over that port. When an Ethernet port is disabled, the port does not send or receive frames.

To enable or disable an Ethernet port:

1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:

ethernet fddi bridge ip snmp analyzer script logout

summary detail label

portState

ethernet portState

2Enter the number(s) of the port(s) you want to enable or disable.

3Enter enable or disable for each Ethernet port.

The portState value (shown in the summary and detail displays) reflects online for all enabled ports displayed and off-line for all disabled ports displayed.

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