HP 212M, 224M 7 Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation, Overview, Trap Receivers, General System Information, Switch Management Address Information

SNMP Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15 Configuring SNMP Communities from the Switch Console . . . . . . . 6-15

Trap Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18

Console/Serial Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-20 Using the Switch Console To Configure the Console/Serial Link . . . 6-21

System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22 Configuring System Parameters from the Web Browser Interface . 6-22 Configuring System Information from the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23

Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24 Configuring Port Parameters from the Web Browser Interface . . . . 6-26 Configuring Port Parameters from the Switch Console . . . . . . . . . . . 6-27

Network Monitoring Port Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-28 Configuring Port Monitoring from the Web Browser Interface . . . . 6-28 Configuring Port Monitoring from the Switch Console . . . . . . . . . . . 6-29

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-30 Enabling STP from the Web Browser Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-31 Using the Switch Console To Configure STP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-32 How STP Operates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-33

IP Multicast (IGMP) Service Features—Multimedia Traffic Control

6-34

Configuring IGMP from the Web Browser Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-35 Using the Switch Console To Configure IGMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-36 How IGMP Operates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-38 Special Case IGMP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-42

7 Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Switch Console Status and Counters Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

General System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

Switch Management Address Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

Port Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5 Displaying Port Status from the Web Browser Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5 Displaying Port Status from the Switch Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6

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