Stacking Units - 3Com 3C16630A User Manual

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HAPTER NTRODUCTION
sent to the management station if critical thresholds are exceeded. You
can use SNMP running over the IP or IPX protocols.
By connecting a VT100 terminal (or workstation with terminal
emulation software) to the serial port on the Module. The terminal can
be connected directly or remotely, via a modem. The VT100
management interface, which is a menu-driven user interface built
into the Modules, is used. The VT100 management interface provides a
subset of the features of SNMP management.
Over a TCP/IP network, using a workstation running VT100 terminal
emulation and Telnet. The VT100 management interface is used.
By connecting a workstation running SLIP to the serial port, which
allows you to use out-of-band Telnet or SNMP management. The
workstation can be connected directly or remotely, via a modem. This
method provides a way of managing the stack in situations where the
LAN is not providing a reliable service, or where the network manager
does not have direct LAN connectivity.
Any changes made to the configuration of a device using one method
of access will be reflected in the configuration seen by all other methods
of access.
Using SNMP management, you can access RMON statistics for a stack.
Adequate statistics for most situations will be stored by the SuperStack
II Hub 10 Management Module (3C16630A). If you want to perform
extremely comprehensive RMON analysis on heavily loaded networks,
you should consider using the SuperStack II Hub 10 Advanced RMON
Module (3C16632).
There is no functional difference between the two types of module. All
software will work with both modules as described in this manual. See
Appendix A for the specification of each module.

Stacking Units

You can manage a stack containing a mixture of SuperStack II Hub 10 ,
LinkBuilder FMS, FMS II, 10BT and 10BTi units.
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