Cabletron Systems 7C04-R Creating Bridge Traffic Charts, Graphs, and Meters, Designated Port

Using the 7C0x SmartSwitch Bridge View

Designated Port

The Port ID of the port on the Designated Bridge for this port’s segment. The Designated Port is the bridge port that offers the lowest path cost to the Root Bridge.

Forward Transitions

The number of times this port has moved from the Learning state to the

Forwarding state since the device was started or since it was last reset.

Changing a Port’s STA Parameters

To change a port’s Priority or Path Cost:

1.In the scroll list, click mouse button 1 on the port you want to change (use the scroll bar if necessary to display the desired port). You can only select one port at a time. The highlighted port’s Spanning Tree parameters appear in the boxes below the list.

2.Highlight and edit the Priority and Path Cost boxes as required. After you type in the new value in a box, press Enter or Return on the keyboard.

Creating Bridge Traffic Charts, Graphs, and Meters

The Bridge application uses the SPMA Charts, Graphs and Meters tools to depict bridge statistics describing activity at the bridge-port level. Once running, however, a pie chart, graph or meter is independent from the application where it was started. Although the windows you open to create pie charts, graphs and meters have unique variable lists, the procedures for creating a pie chart, a graph or a meter are the same.

To access the Pie Chart, Graph, and Meters tools from the Bridge Traffic View Port menus:

1.Click mouse button 3 on a Bridge Port box to display the Bridge Port menu.

2.Drag down to select Pie Chart or Graphs/Meters—>Transparent.

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