Ram Disk System For Data Capture Files; Changing The Default System Directory (Cd) - Alcatel Omni Switch/Router User Manual

Port Monitoring

RAM Disk System for Data Capture Files

Port monitoring uses a
has a separate directory designation of
and they are displayed in
You can copy files between the
tion, files in the
file system are accessible by using the
Configuring RAM Drive Resources (pmcfg)
The command allows you to select the size of the
disk. In addition, it allows you to configure the amount of data collected for each packet
RAM
capture. To begin configuring
A screen similar to the following displays:
To change one of the settings, enter a
drive size. Select a size in kilobytes between 1000 and 8000. You can also delete the
RAM
drive by entering a size of zero (0). Changing the
RAM
reboot the system.
The
dump session data to the computer screen. You can specify the number of lines to display
while viewing port monitor data on the screen.

Changing the Default System Directory (cd)

After a port monitoring session is enabled the default directory is the
To switch back to the standard default flash file system (
switch back to the default directory, enter
To switch back to the
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disk for fast temporary storage of data capture files. The
RAM
.
UPPERCASE
disk system and the standard
disk system are retrievable via
RAM
o Note o
The drive is part of
RAM
off or reboot the switch, any files saved in the
drive will be lost.
drive resources, enter
RAM
and press
controls the amount of data displayed to the terminal when you choose to
disk directory, enter
RAM
. -based files are created in
RAM
. Both the
FTP
-style change directory ( ) command.
UNIX/DOS
memory. If you power
DRAM
RAM
disk file system or to delete the
RAM
. You will be prompted for a new
disk size also requires that you
RAM
) use the
disk
RAM
format
DOS-FAT
file system. In addi-
file system and the
disk system ( ).
RAM
command. To