Cabletron Systems 7000 manual Configuration, Fddi Management

FDDI Management

¥Station List Ñ With this window you can see the conÞguration of the ring on which the SMT entity resides, including number of nodes, node addresses (both Canonical and MAC), node class, and current ring topology.

¥Performance Ñ This window lets you view the number of frames transmitted and received on the ring as detected by the selected SMT entity, along with error and lost frames, and the number of ring initializations.

Additional FDDI performance-related statistics are available via the FDDI Statistics

TIP option on the Chassis View Device menu; see Chapter 2 for more information.

To access FDDI information:

1.In the Chassis View window, click on FDDI; drag down to select the SMT entity of interest, then right to reveal the FDDI menu (Figure 5-1).

Figure 5-1. The FDDI Menu

2. Drag to select the desired window.

Note that the title bar of each window will display the index number of the SMT entity whose information is being displayed.

Configuration

The Concentrator ConÞguration window, Figure 5-2, informs you about the conÞguration and operating state of the FDDI ring associated with the selected SMT entity, and displays parameters relating to ring initialization.

5-2 Configuration