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EVICE
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Viewing and
Changing Settings
You can access management information about devices, segments, ports,
and virtual LANs by highlighting the feature you want to work with and
clicking the right mouse button to access a shortcut menu. For modular
chassis such as the CoreBuilder 9000 Switch, you can also highlight the
entire chassis or a module. The shortcut menu you see depends on the
element you have selected.
The shortcut menu does not appear for CoreBuilder 5000 and ONline
devices. Instead, you click and hold the right mouse button on the
module or port you want to manage, move the mouse pointer over a
popup module description, and release the mouse button.
To enable or disable a port interface, highlight the port and select
Enable
or
Disable
from the shortcut menu.
Figure 3 Selecting an Ethernet Port
The shortcut menu displays a series of commands that relate to the
feature you select. Clicking
Configure
enables you to set up the feature
using a notebook-style interface that divides management information
into a series of sections within the same window. Within each section,
tabbed pages group the settings you can configure. When you select a
Ports
— Select one or more
ports that you want to work
with, either by clicking them
or using the
Media
and
Sub
Group
filters.
Shortcut menu
— Right-click to access
the menu and choose to
Enable
,
Disable
,
Configure
, or view performance graphs.