NEC MA4000 manual Adding a Backbone, Defining a Backbone, Setting up a backbone type

4-20 Setting Up Infrastructures

Adding a Backbone

Step 1 Highlight the space on the Navigator Tree where the backbone cable will start.

Step 2 Click the Add button in the List View area.

Step 3 In the Detail View Backbone Info tab, enter the backbone's ID in the Backbone ID field.

Step 4 Select a Backbone Type from the drop-down list.

Step 5 Enter Cable Length, Start Pair/Strand, and End Pair/Strand. The grayed Number of Pair/Strands field is populated automatically.

Step 6 Click Save.

Defining a Backbone

Cable Management comes with many Backbone types already defined for you. If, however, you wish to track a type of Backbone that has not been defined, you can define it yourself.

Setting up a backbone type

Step 1 In the View Detail area, select the yellow ellipsis button to the right of the Backbone Type field.

Step 2 Click the Add button.

Step 3 In the pop-up Customizable Fields window, enter the Backbone Type.

Step 4 The Descriptions columns allow you to assign descriptions you want to include for each kind of Backbone.

Step 5 Click Save to save your input.

Deleting a Backbone type

Step 1 Click the yellow ellipsis button next to Backbone Type.

Step 2 Click to select the type to delete.

Step 3 Click the Delete button.

Step 4 Click Save before exiting the window.

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