Cabletron Systems 1800 Switch User Manual


 
2-6 SmartSwitch 1800 4.0 User Guide, Rev 01
Moving Through the Menus
To select a menu item, press the letter to the left of the item.
To return to the next higher menu from a lower-level, press
[F3]
.
To move from operations under one Main Menu entry to operations under another
entry, you must return to the Main Menu. The easiest way is to press
[F3]
repeatedly
until the Main Menu is displayed.
Prompts
Within the menu operations, there are two kinds of prompts:
Information prompts – respond by typing the requested information, then
pressing
[Enter]
.
Yes/no prompts – respond by pressing
[Y]
or
[N]
.
Throughout this manual are tables of valid and default values. To specify a default (if
one exists), press
[Enter]
in response to a prompt.
Pressing
[Enter]
when it is not required may cause the next
prompt to automatically select the default choice.
On-Line Help
Most screen menus display a prompt called
Option:
. Pressing
[?]
in response to this
prompt will usually display a list of options. To make a selection, press either the
function key shown preceding the desired option or the character preceding the
desired menu item. The list of options varies, depending on what menu is displayed;
all the options are described below. (Function key equivalents on an async terminal
keypad are listed on page 2-8.)
F1: Select Another Record
or
Redisplay/Refresh
:
Next Record
—displays the first prompt that appeared on your screen after you
made your menu selection, so you can specify another record.
Redisplay/Refresh
—refreshes a display with updated information.
F2: Next Record
or
Remote Refresh
:
Next Record
—displays the next sequential record on your screen for verification,
modification, or deletion.
Remote Refresh
—refreshes a remote display.
F3: Exit menu
—returns you to the previous menu, saving any changes you have made
Some menus have two sets of values:
Database
and
System Memory
.
Changes will affect only the database, unless you press
[F7]
before
pressing
[F3]
. (This will update the system memory.) Database and
System memory values are described on page 4-2 for Node Defaults
and page 6-3 for Ports.