754CHAPTER 18: NBX SUPPORT

Key Concepts

This section outlines the key concepts of managing an NBX system using

 

3Com Network Director.

How 3Com Network In the 3Com Network Director Network Discovery, you can specify if you Director Discovers the have a NBX system on your network. If you do, you can then specify the

Phone Network administrator username/password that 3Com Network Director should use to communicate with the system. See “Discovering the Network” on page 91 for further details.

During the discovery and topology process, 3Com Network Director will:

Query the NBX Call Processors on your network for the list of line cards and phones on the system.

Collect information about the line cards and phones on your network.

Find the physical location of the line cards and phones on your network.

How 3Com Network 3Com Network Director displays the devices that are part of the NBX Director Represents system on the 3Com Network Director network map. See the “Working the Phone Network with the Map” chapter on page 151 for further information

Icons

Table 110 shows the different types of icons and their meaning:

Table 110 NBX Map Icons

Device Type

Icon

Example

 

 

 

NBX Call Processor

 

3Com

 

 

SuperStack 3

 

 

NBX Call

 

 

Processor (750)

Line cards

 

3Com NBX T-1

 

 

Digital Line Card

Analog Terminal

 

3Com NBX

Adapter

 

Analog Terminal

 

 

Adapter (Phone)

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HP Network Direr Software Products manual Shows the different types of icons and their meaning, NBX Map Icons