IDP250 Installation Guide
3.Slide the clip into the transceiver port until it clicks into place. Because the fit is close, you may have to apply some pressure to seat the clip. Apply pressure evenly and gently to avoid clip breakage.
To remove a Gigabit Ethernet cable from a transceiver:
1.Hold the cable clip firmly but gently between your thumb and forefinger with your thumb on top of the clip and your finger under the clip.
2.Use your thumb to gently press the clip ejector on top of the clip. Press down then forward to loosen the clip from the transceiver port.
3.Gently but firmly pull the clip from the transceiver port.
Verifying Traffic Flow
Purpose After you have installed the appliance, run the initial network configuration, and connected the appliance to your network, you can perform the following procedure to verify traffic flows through the appliance.
Action To verify that traffic is flowing through the appliance:
1.Make sure the appliance is connected to a live traffic feed.
2.Connect to the IDP
■Use SSH to connect to the IP address or hostname for the management interface. Log in as admin and enter su – to switch to root.
■If you prefer, make a connection through the serial port and log in as root.
3.Type sctop and press Enter.
4.Type s to see status information.
5.Examine the following information on the screen:
Protocol | Packets | Flows | Sessions | Peak | Peak Time |
Other | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08/09/2006 03:08:07 |
ICMP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08/08/2006 18:03:51 |
UDP | 3386 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 08/08/2006 19:31:01 |
TCP | 151164 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 08/09/2006 07:01:36 |
Changes in the UDP and TCP flow and session counts indicate traffic is flowing through the appliance.
Related Topics ■ Basic Steps on page 22
38■ Verifying Traffic Flow
