The SmartSwitch 2000 Chassis View

The Port Menus

The menu for bridging ports offers the following selections:

¥Connection Type displays a text description of the connection type of the selected interface. This menu option appears if the device supports the ctIfConnectionType OID. See Viewing Hardware Types, on page 2-18, for details.

¥Description displays a text description of the selected port. See Viewing Hardware Types, on page 2-18, for details.

¥Performance Graph brings up windows that visually display bridging performance at the selected port; see the Bridging chapter in the SPECTRUM Element Manager Tools Guide for more information.

¥Source Addressing brings up a window that displays the contents of the SmartSwitch 2000Õs Filtering Database with respect to a selected port. This will display the source MAC addresses that have been detected by the port as it forwards data across the network; see the Bridging chapter in the SPECTRUM Element Manager Tools Guide for more information.

¥I/F Statistics launches a Statistics window, which displays interface statistics for the port; see the Bridging chapter in the SPECTRUM Element Manager Tools Guide for more information.

¥ConÞguration launches the conÞguration window appropriate to the selected port: for standard Ethernet and FDDI ports, the conÞguration window allows you to set the Duplex Mode; for Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet ports it allows you to conÞgure a number of different options, including auto-negotiation. See ConÞguring Ports, on page 2-30for details.

¥Alarm ConÞguration brings up windows that allow you to conÞgure alarms and events for each available interface; see Chapter 3, Alarm ConÞguration for details.

¥Statistics launches the highest level of statistics currently available for the selected port. For standard Ethernet and Fast Ethernet ports, RMON statistics will be displayed if the RMON Default MIB component is active; if it has been disabled, MIB-II interface statistics will display. See Chapter 4, Statistics for more information.

¥Enable/Disable administratively turns the selected port on or off; see Enabling and Disabling Ports, on page 2-76, or the Bridging chapter in the SPECTRUM Element Manager Tools Guide for more information.

Port Status Displays

When you open the Chassis View window, each port will display its Bridging state (deÞned below) by default, with the exception of Ethernet MicroLAN Switches, which will display their Admin/Link status (also deÞned below) by default; to change this status display, select one of the options on the Port Status menu, as described in the following sections.

Viewing Chassis Information

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Cabletron Systems 2000 manual Port Status Displays, Port Menus

2000 specifications

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