Creating A Network Representation; Network Representation Display - Cabletron Systems Netlink FRX8000 User Manual

Creating a Network Representation

Configuring Network Parameters
Network Representation maintenance operations allow you to create a visual
description of your network, with a geographic outline and network components. The
information can then be retrieved in the
10), which shows on-line status for the components you placed into the record.
and
Inquiry
formed only at an INM.
The components in a network display are represented by various icons, shown in
Figure 4-4. To simplify the display for a large network, you can represent parts of it
as "subnets" (subnetworks), and create a separate display for each subnetwork. A sub-
network can contain nodes or other subnetworks. You can have as many as 99
network/subnet displays for a network, and as many as 250 objects in any one display.
Each node, however, can exist only once in the network record, so the same node
cannot be in two subnets (unless one is within the other).
To configure a Network Representation record, press
Selection Menu (Figure
software enters graphics level. When prompted, enter:
Network/Subnetwork ID: 1-250
for node IDs, there is no necessary correlation.)
Network/Subnetwork Name
F1 V iew F2 Operations
Figure 4-3 Network Representation Display
This example shows an existing record; a new record has no background
or icons.
Graphics-Level Status Display
on the Network Representation file can be per-
Maintenance
4-1). The screen will go blank for a few seconds as the
. (Default is
(if a new record): up to 21 characters.
F3 En virons
S ubn et 1: D atanet 1
10
21
30
40
, then at the Network
[B] [C]
.) (Although this is the same range as
1
11
12
13
20
[A],[A],[B],[C] from Main Menu
(see page 19-
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