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Creating and Editing a Basic Alarm....................................................................3-6
Disabling a Basic Alarm........................................................................................3-9
Viewing the Basic Alarm Log...............................................................................3-9
Advanced Alarm Configuration............................................................................... 3-11
Accessing the RMON Advanced Alarm/Event List.......................................3-11
Creating and Editing an Advanced Alarm.......................................................3-14
Creating and Editing an Event...........................................................................3-20
Adding Actions to an Event........................................................................3-23
Deleting an Alarm, Event, or Action.................................................................3-26
Viewing an Advanced Alarm Event Log..........................................................3-26
How Rising and Falling Thresholds Work..............................................................3-27
Chapter 4 Statistics Accessing the Statistics Windows...............................................................................4-1
RMON Statistics............................................................................................................ 4-2
Viewing Total, Delta, and Accumulated Statistics.............................................4-5
Printing Statistics................................................................................................... 4-6
Interface Statistics..........................................................................................................4-6
Chapter 5 Bridging Bridging Basics.............................................................................................................. 5-1
More on Transparent Bridging.............................................................................5-2
An Overview of Bridge Management........................................................................ 5-2
The Bridge Status Window..........................................................................................5-3
Accessing Other Management Options from the
Bridge Status Window................................................................................... 5-5
Enabling and Disabling Bridging............................................................................... 5-6
Enabling and Disabling Individual Interfaces...................................................5-6
Enabling and Disabling All Installed Interfaces................................................5-6
Bridge Statistics............................................................................................................. 5-7
Performance Graphs..............................................................................................5-7
Configuring the Bridge Performance Graphs.............................................5-9
Using Source Addressing...........................................................................................5-10
Altering the Ageing Time............................................................................5-10
Bridge Spanning Tree..................................................................................................5-11
Viewing Spanning Tree Parameters..................................................................5-12
Bridge-level Parameters...............................................................................5-13
Port-specific Parameters.............................................................................. 5-15
Changing Bridge Spanning Tree Parameters...................................................5-16
Changing Bridge Priority............................................................................ 5-16
Changing the Spanning Tree Algorithm Protocol Type.......................... 5-17
Changing Hello Time................................................................................... 5-17
Changing Max Age Time.............................................................................5-17
Changing Forwarding Delay Time.............................................................5-18
Changing Port Priority.................................................................................5-18
Changing Path Cost......................................................................................5-18