Nortel Networks BMD00007 manual Menu Summary, „ Information Menu

Alteon OS Command Reference

Menu Summary

„Information Menu

Provides sub-menus for displaying information about the current status of the switch: from basic system settings to VLANs, and more.

„Statistics Menu

Provides sub-menus for displaying switch performance statistics. Included are port, IF, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SNMP, routing, ARP, DNS, and VRRP statistics.

„Configuration Menu

This menu is available only from an administrator login. It includes sub-menus for config- uring every aspect of the switch. Changes to configuration are not active until explicitly applied. Changes can be saved to non-volatile memory.

„Operations Command Menu

Operations-level commands are used for making immediate and temporary changes to switch configuration. This menu is used for bringing ports temporarily in and out of ser- vice, performing port mirroring, and enabling or disabling Server Load Balancing func- tions. It is also used for activating or deactivating optional software packages.

„Boot Options Menu

This menu is used for upgrading switch software, selecting configuration blocks, and for resetting the switch when necessary.

„Maintenance Menu

This menu is used for debugging purposes, enabling you to generate a dump of the critical state information in the switch, and to clear entries in the forwarding database and the ARP and routing tables.

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