Allied Telesis 2.6.1 manual Management Menu, Monitoring Menu

Getting Started with the Graphical User Interface (GUI) 35

Apply Button

An Apply button applies the configuration settings on the page or the section of the page. The new settings will take effect immediately, but are not automatically saved. To save the settings after clicking Apply, click the Save button above the menu.

Cancel Button

A Cancel button closes a popup page without making any changes to the configuration.

Close Button

A Close button closes a popup page, and conserves any changes that you made to the settings on the page by clicking on buttons like Add, Modify, Remove or Apply. Changes you made to editable fields will not be conserved when you click Close (unless you first clicked Apply).

The Management Menu

You can use the GUI to manage the switch itself, including:

•creating user accounts and enabling system security

•creating and editing files

•backing files up to the switch’s Flash memory or to a PC or TFTP server

•restoring the switch’s configuration from backup

•specifying which software and configuration files the switch uses on bootup, and displaying the currently-used files

•enabling software release and feature licences

•upgrading the switch’s software

The Monitoring Menu

When you browse to the GUI, the sidebar menu opens to display the monitoring menu, opened at the System > Status. From this menu, you can also check:

•information about the switch’s hardware

•information about traffic over each port

•the Layer 2 Forwarding Database, which shows the MAC addresses that the switch ports have learned, and out which port the switch will switch traffic to each MAC address

•information about Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries

•the IP route table

•the log messages that the switch automatically generates. You can also set up filters to determine where messages are saved to and which messages are saved.

Software Release 2.6.1 C613-02039-00 REV A