Asante Technologies 2072 manual Introducing the Network Management Module

Introducing the Network Management Module

With the NMM’s Segment Control buttons, you can manually iso- late any AH2072 NMM or NetStacker module, or assign it to either of the chassis’ two segments.This can also be accomplished remotely using AsantéView In-Band and Out-of-Band software. Segment Control allows you to monitor and control both seg- ments of the AsantéHub 2072 and its repeater modules.

The module’s RS232 port and its AsantéView Management Station (AMS) Link offer remote (out-of-band) network management con- trol.With these two connections and an AsantéView Management Station, you can gather statistics and set parameters for as many as twelve daisy-chained Asanté hubs.You can also use the RS232 port as a local management port. Used in this way with terminal emula- tion software, you can gather statistics and set parameters for an individual Asanté hub.

LEDs for both Ethernet segments are displayed on the NMM front panel or can be viewed from an AsantéView Management Station. The LEDs display many types of traffic statistics, such as late colli- sions, misalignments, fragments, and short events, as well as seg- ment utilization and collision percentages in bar graph form.

The NMM is easy to upgrade because it has Flash EEPROM mem- ory.To upgrade to the latest hub software (image code), download the NMM’s microcode upgrades from an AsantéView Management Station or from a third party TFTP server directly through the net- work. See the appropriate AsantéView User’s Guide or third-party server documentation for more information on the upgrade proce- dure.

The AsantéHub 2072 MIB is a text file distributed by Asanté Tech- nical Support.The file can also be obtained using anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) from Asanté’s Internet accessible FTP server (see "Asanté Technical Support" on page 2 for more infor- mation).

For MIB compilation instructions, refer to your management con- sole’s documentation.

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