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Viewing Chassis Information 2-11
The SmartSwitch 2000 Chassis View
The Port Menus
The menu for bridging ports offers the following selections:
¥ Connection Type displays a text description of the connection type of the
selected interface. This menu option appears if the device supports the
ctIfConnectionType OID. See Viewing Hardware Types, on page 2-18, for
details.
¥ Description displays a text description of the selected port. See Viewing
Hardware Types, on page 2-18, for details.
¥ Performance Graph brings up windows that visually display bridging
performance at the selected port; see the Bridging chapter in the SPECTRUM
Element Manager Tools Guide for more information.
¥ Source Addressing brings up a window that displays the contents of the
SmartSwitch 2000Õs Filtering Database with respect to a selected port. This will
display the source MAC addresses that have been detected by the port as it
forwards data across the network; see the Bridging chapter in the SPECTRUM
Element Manager Tools Guide for more information.
¥ I/F Statistics launches a Statistics window, which displays interface statistics
for the port; see the Bridging chapter in the SPECTRUM Element Manager
Tools Guide for more information.
¥ ConÞguration launches the conÞguration window appropriate to the selected
port: for standard Ethernet and FDDI ports, the conÞguration window allows
you to set the Duplex Mode; for Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet ports it
allows you to conÞgure a number of different options, including
auto-negotiation. See ConÞguring Ports, on page 2-30 for details.
¥ Alarm ConÞguration brings up windows that allow you to conÞgure alarms
and events for each available interface; see Chapter 3, Alarm ConÞguration
for details.
¥ Statistics launches the highest level of statistics currently available for the
selected port. For standard Ethernet and Fast Ethernet ports, RMON statistics
will be displayed if the RMON Default MIB component is active; if it has been
disabled, MIB-II interface statistics will display. See Chapter 4, Statistics for
more information.
¥ Enable/Disable administratively turns the selected port on or off; see
Enabling and Disabling Ports, on page 2-76, or the Bridging chapter in the
SPECTRUM Element Manager Tools Guide for more information.
Port Status Displays
When you open the Chassis View window, each port will display its Bridging
state (deÞned below) by default, with the exception of Ethernet MicroLAN
Switches, which will display their Admin/Link status (also deÞned below) by
default; to change this status display, select one of the options on the Port Status
menu, as described in the following sections.