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Organization
Chapter 1. Product Overview: Describes the featur es of the switch, front
and rear panel components and application examples.
Chapter 2. Installation: Describes the content of your switch shipment,
lists site requirements, and provides mounting instructions. Instructions
for making connections and powering up the switch are provided as well.
Chapter 3. ELS100-24TX User Interface: Describes the user interface
console menus and lists the factory defaults for system settings. Each of
the console menus are presented along with a description of the
selections/fields available within each menu.
Chapter 4. Configuring and Monitoring the Switch: Describes
common tasks and associated steps required to configure the switch, and
covers common switch and network considerations required to ensure
system integrity.
Chapter 5. SNMP Management: Describes how the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) communication protocol is used to
manage the switch, and provides a description of industry standard and
proprietary Managed Information Bases (MIBs) supported by the switch.
Appendix A. Technical Specifications: Provides a list of standards
compliance and cert i fications, power co rd requirements, as well as
physical and operational specifications.
Appendix B. Spanning Tree Concepts: Describes the operation of the
Spanning Tree Protocol and how it is used to resolve the problems of
physical loops in a network.
Appendix C. Flow Control: Describes how the flow control features are
used to provide a mechanism for protecting the switch from overload
conditions and to keep additional traffic off the network.
Appendix D. Virtual LANs (VLANs): Describes how the switch uses
VLANs to create isolated network domains, and provides illustrations of
VLAN switch configurations.
Appendix E. Class of Service: Describes how the traffic Class of Serv ice
features can be used to assign mission-critical data a higher priority
through the switch by delaying less critical traffic during periods of
congestion.
Appendix F. Acronyms and Abbreviations: Provides definitions for a
list of common acronyms and abbreviations used within the user guide
and the networking industry.