3Com 9000 manual Selecting an Ethernet Port

22CHAPTER 2: USING DEVICE VIEW

Viewing and You can access management information about devices, segments, ports, Changing Settings and virtual LANs by highlighting the feature you want to work with and clicking the right mouse button to access a shortcut menu. For modular

chassis such as the CoreBuilder 9000 Switch, you can also highlight the entire chassis or a module. The shortcut menu you see depends on the element you have selected.

The shortcut menu does not appear for CoreBuilder 5000 and ONline devices. Instead, you click and hold the right mouse button on the module or port you want to manage, move the mouse pointer over a popup module description, and release the mouse button.

To enable or disable a port interface, highlight the port and select Enable or Disable from the shortcut menu.

Ports — Select one or more ports that you want to work with, either by clicking them or using the Media and Sub Group filters.

Shortcut menu — Right-click to access the menu and choose to Enable, Disable, Configure, or view performance graphs.

Figure 3 Selecting an Ethernet Port

The shortcut menu displays a series of commands that relate to the feature you select. Clicking Configure enables you to set up the feature using a notebook-style interface that divides management information into a series of sections within the same window. Within each section, tabbed pages group the settings you can configure. When you select a