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Using the GUI: Navigation and Features
The GUI consists of a large number of pages, which you navigate between using the menu on the left of the browser window. This section describes how to use the GUI, and gives an overview of its functionality.
The Configuration Menu
You can use the GUI to configure:
•the system identity and mail server
•the system time, or NTP (Network Time Protocol)
•triggers, to automatically run scripts at a time you specify or in response to events you specify
•ping polling, to monitor device reachability and respond to changes in reachability
•SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
•switch port settings, including mirroring, trunking and storm limits
•802.1x port security
•VLANs, STP and GARP
•Internet Protocol: interfaces, static routes, the preferences of dynamic routes, RIP, multicasting, and OSPF
•Quality of Service and traffic filters
Using Configuration Pages
Most protocols are configured by creating or adding an entry - an IP route, a PIM interface, and so on. For such protocols, configuration with the GUI is based on sets of three pages: first you see a “summary” page, and from that you access an “add” page and a “modify” page. Complex protocols are sub- divided into different tabs, each with their own summary, add and modify pages.
Only one person can configure a particular switch with the GUI at a time, to avoid clashes between configurations. Monitoring and diagnostics pages can be viewed by more than one user at a time.
Use the menus and buttons on the GUI pages to navigate, not your browser’s buttons, to ensure that the configuration settings are saved correctly.
The summary page displays a selection table of existing items and information about them (for example, existing PIM interfaces; see Figure 7 on page 33). Below the selection table is a row of buttons, labelled Add, Modify and Remove.
To add a new item, click the Add button. This opens the popup “add” page, which lets you create a new item (for example, configure a new PIM interface; see Figure 8 on page 33).
Software Release 2.6.1
