Cabletron Systems 9H42X-XX Switch User Manual


 
Contents
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Creating and Editing a Basic Alarm....................................................................3-6
Disabling a Basic Alarm ........................................................................................3-9
Viewing the Basic Alarm Log...............................................................................3-9
Advanced Alarm Configuration ............................................................................... 3-11
Accessing the RMON Advanced Alarm/Event List....................................... 3-11
Creating and Editing an Advanced Alarm.......................................................3-14
Creating and Editing an Event...........................................................................3-20
Adding Actions to an Event ........................................................................3-23
Deleting an Alarm, Event, or Action .................................................................3-26
Viewing an Advanced Alarm Event Log..........................................................3-26
How Rising and Falling Thresholds Work ..............................................................3-27
Chapter 4 Statistics
Accessing the Statistics Windows...............................................................................4-1
RMON Statistics ............................................................................................................4-2
Viewing Total, Delta, and Accumulated Statistics.............................................4-5
Printing Statistics ...................................................................................................4-6
Interface Statistics..........................................................................................................4-6
Chapter 5 Bridging
Bridging Basics ..............................................................................................................5-1
More on Transparent Bridging.............................................................................5-2
An Overview of Bridge Management ........................................................................5-2
The Bridge Status Window ..........................................................................................5-3
Accessing Other Management Options from the
Bridge Status Window ...................................................................................5-5
Enabling and Disabling Bridging ...............................................................................5-6
Enabling and Disabling Individual Interfaces...................................................5-6
Enabling and Disabling All Installed Interfaces................................................5-6
Bridge Statistics .............................................................................................................5-7
Performance Graphs..............................................................................................5-7
Configuring the Bridge Performance Graphs.............................................5-9
Using Source Addressing...........................................................................................5-10
Altering the Ageing Time ............................................................................5-10
Bridge Spanning Tree.................................................................................................. 5-11
Viewing Spanning Tree Parameters ..................................................................5-12
Bridge-level Parameters...............................................................................5-13
Port-specific Parameters ..............................................................................5-15
Changing Bridge Spanning Tree Parameters...................................................5-16
Changing Bridge Priority ............................................................................5-16
Changing the Spanning Tree Algorithm Protocol Type ..........................5-17
Changing Hello Time ...................................................................................5-17
Changing Max Age Time .............................................................................5-17
Changing Forwarding Delay Time.............................................................5-18
Changing Port Priority.................................................................................5-18
Changing Path Cost......................................................................................5-18