Cabletron Systems 7000 manual Fddi Menu, Utilities Menu, Help Menu

The SmartSwitch 7000 Chassis View

¥I/F Type will display the port type of each port in the SmartSwitch chassis: Eth (ethernet-csmacd) or FDDI.

For more information on the port display options available via this menu, see Selecting a Port Status View, page 2-10.

The FDDI Menu

If your SmartSwitch 7000 has one or more 7F06-02 modules installed, the FDDI menu will appear on the Chassis View menu bar, with the following options available for each SMT entity in the hub:

¥ConÞguration

¥Connection Policy

¥Station List

¥Performance

Refer to Chapter 5, FDDI Management, for more information on these selections.

You can also view a summary of trafÞc statistics for each FDDI interface via the FDDI

TIP Statistics option available on the Device menu; see Viewing FDDI Statistics, page 2-20, for more information.

The Utilities Menu

The Utilities menu provides access to the MIB Tools utility, which provides direct access to the SmartSwitch 7000Õs MIB information, and to the RMON utility, a remote monitoring feature that is supported on a per-port basis when at least one Ethernet or Fast Ethernet NIM is installed in the chassis. These selections are also available from the Utilities menu at the top of the SPECTRUM Element Manager console window. Refer to your Tools Guide for a thorough explanation of the MIB Tools and RMON utilities.

The Help Menu

The Help Menu has three selections:

¥MIBs Supported, which brings up the Chassis Manager window, described later in this chapter.

¥Chassis Manager Help, which brings up a help window with information speciÞcally related to using the Chassis Manager and Chassis View windows.

¥About Chassis Manager..., which brings up a version window for the Chassis Manager application in use.

2-8 Viewing Chassis Information