Enabling The Roving Analysis System; Resetting All The Units In The Stack; What Happens During A Reset; Initializing All The Units In The Stack - 3Com SuperStack II Manual

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Enabling the Roving Analysis System

The Roving Analysis Setup page allows you to enable the roving analysis
system. To do this:
1 From the Roving Analysis State listbox, select Enabled.
2 Click Apply.
You can reset all the Switch units in the stack using the Reset page.
To access the page:
1 Click the Configuration icon on the side-bar.
2 Click the Reset hotlink. The Reset page is displayed.
To reset the stack, select Yes and then click Apply.

What Happens During a Reset?

Resetting the Switch units in the stack simulates a power-off/on cycle.
You may want to do this if you need to:
Remove all the Learned entries in the Switch Database (SDB).
Reset the statistic counters of the stack.
CAUTION: Resetting the stack causes some of the traffic being
transmitted over the network to be lost. It also clears all Learned entries
from the Switch Database.
The stack takes about 10 seconds to reset. While the stack is resetting,
you cannot communicate with it.
You can initialize all the Switch units in the stack using the Initialize page.
To access the page:
1 Click the Configuration icon on the side-bar.
2 Click the Initialize hotlink. The Initialize page is displayed.
To initialize the stack, select Yes and then click Apply.

What Happens During an Initialization?

Initializing the Switch units in the stack returns them to their default
(factory) settings. The only information that does not return to its default