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Chapter 5 The Station Manager
Section 2: Using the Station Manager
The Station Manager commands are divided into two groups:
Monitor commands
Modify commands
The Monitor commands provide information about the station and the network. Execut-
ing these commands will not affect the operation of the station or the network, and they
are available to anyone using the Station Manager. See Table 5-1 for a list of Monitor
commands.
The Modify commands perform functions that may change the operation of the station
and the network. These commands are secure and may only be executed when the se-
cure level of operation has been selected by “logging in” with the current password.
These commands will be printed in italics. See Table 5-2 for a list of Modify commands.
The complete sets of Monitor commands and Modify commands are available when the
Ethernet Interface is in the fully operational state. Subsets of these commands are avail-
able when in the Soft Switch Entry and Field Network Test Utilities.
The Station Manager is a “background” task. It only executes when communication pro-
cessing is not occurring. Because of this, the command response time is sensitive to the
communication load of the station––the greater the load, the longer it takes for the com-
mands to execute.