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Chapter 3

FDDI Applications

Concentrator Configuration window; Connection Policy window; Station List window; Concentrator

Performance window

The FDDI menu, available on devices with an installed and enabled FDDI BRIM,
lets you access windows to view information about the Station Management
(SMT) entity supported by your FDDI BRIM. The SMT entity provides the system
management services for the FDDI protocols, including connection management,
node conÞguration, management statistics, and ring recovery. SMT is composed
of various subcomponent functions, including Connection Management (CMT)
and Ring Management (RMT).
The submenus that provide FDDI management are:
¥ConÞguration, which displays the current conÞguration of the FDDI BRIM,
and the status of the ring; see The ConÞguration Window, page 3-2, for
details.
¥Connection Policy, which displays the types of connections between the four
FDDI PHY (port) types Ð A, B, M, and S Ð that will be allowed by the FDDI
BRIM; see the Connection Policy Window, page 3-5 for details.
¥Station List, which displays the conÞguration of the FDDI BRIM managed
ring, including the number of nodes, node addresses (both Canonical and
MAC), node class, and current ring topology; see Station List Window,
page 3-8 for details.
¥Performance displays the number of frames transmitted and received on the
ring, error and lost frames detected on the ring, and the number of ring
initializations; see FDDI Performance Window, page 3-10.