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5-2 CHAPTER 5: MANAGING THE PS HUB
Why Manage Your Stack? With management, you can change and view the way the stack or
network operates in the following way:
■Display a graphical representation for the stack to quickly view the
status of each hub and its ports.
■Display general information for the stack or hubs.
■Graphically display network information for the stack’s cascaded
segments.
■Enable and disable ports, and switch them between segments.
■Perform load balancing so that the traffic is distributed evenly across
the segments in the stack, resulting in more efficient segments.
■Configure security for the ports, including spec ifying what
equipment is allowed to communicate through the ports on the
hub.
■Set up resilience; specify a backup connection that takes over should
a main connection fail.
■View statistics.
■Configure the console port for connection to a modem.
■Configure user management access levels.
■Upgrade the management software in the stack with any future
agent software upgra de.
■Configure the stack to send messages (called traps) to an SNMP
network management application (for example, Transcend®
Enterprise Manager) if certain conditions ar ise — you cannot
configure this using the web interface.
■Perform remote monitoring using RMON — not manageable using
the web interface or Quick Config Manager.
■Restart the hub to refresh its statistics and use any new
configurations.
■Initialize the hub to return it to its factory settings (IP information is
retained).